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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:00AM (#46791255)
anyone who thinks that pipewire - pipewire! - is "a simple solution" understands nothing about pipewire.

don't get me wrong, i use pipewire all day every day, and wrote one of the APIs (JACK) that it implements (pretty well, too!).

but pipewire is an order of magnitude more complex than pulseaudio.

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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by herewulf on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:18AM (#46794367)
As an end user hand assembling desktop services on non-Systemd distros (Artix, Devuan, Gentoo, Guix) over the years, and thus had no concern about APIs, Pipewire just works and PulseAudio gave endless trouble.

My 0.02 bits.

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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by account42 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:05AM (#46797153)
As another user on Gentoo, pipewire is a never ending pain in the ass full of "magic" behavior and weird bugs. I mostly skipped pulse though so it may be simple in comparison to that.
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