Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
by account42 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:27AM
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I still need to use alsamixer to unmute my headphones after accidentally unplugging them and plugging them in again fails to do so. That's with PipeWire - never had that problem with just ALSA.
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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
by fao_ on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:53PM
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Eh, I had to do that with pulseaudio too, but constantly, across all distros and headphones. Pipewire is shonky, I have to restart now and then on my steam deck (I'm using it as a desktop), but it's still much better than pulseaudio. Even ALSA was better than pulseaudio lol
Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
by ahartmetz on Saturday January 31, 2026 @04:18PM
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For most of the (sadly not shorter) life of PulseAudio, ALSA was more reliable, but at some point, Firefox got a new audio backend that straight up dropped support for ALSA, and a few games started crashing with backtraces indicating audio trouble when not run with PulseAudio. I've had to deal with PulseAudio's dropouts under load, latencies and lockups for 2-3 years before PipeWire became a viable replacement.