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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13934384

Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence - OMG! Ubuntu

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[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 7 months ago

As one who has switched to Pipewire recently, I can't stress enough what a blessing it is.

It's trivially easy to switch to Pipewire and suddenly your audio Just Works™️, including bluetooth audio. I've had to stand this hateful turd Pulseaudio for years, regularly having to wipe ~/.config/pulse and killall -9 pulseaudio, then reconnect my BT headphones several times to make it work for the day at work, and the minute I installed Pipewire, my headphones suddenly started working like they would with Windows or Android: come in in the morning, turn on, beep, connect, music. No fuss, no bother and no cursing stupid software that doesn't work right.

I wish I had known about Pipewire a long time ago. If you don't, do yourself a favor and switch today!

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/pipewire-replace-pulseaudio-ubuntu-2204/

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

Am I just lucky? I've had 0 issues with PulseAudio so far. I also use Bluetooth quite often, although in the other direction (audio from phone to computer).
Though I did briefly use Bluetooth earphones too, but that concept really didn't appeal to me, so I returned to wired once the case broke again 3 months after I replaced the charging chip. I still have one more of those chips, so I could try again, but I have no motivation for that.

[-] hapbt@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

no more trying to get JACK to work with my 'pro' audio applications and then wanting to run a game and oops jack is still running and oops now something wants to record using pulse for whatever reason and you had all your inputs set to alsa...

[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

This was my main gripe with Linux. I really hated it.

[-] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

me too i have to do a lot of manual operations to BT to my Linux box. I'll be looking for this!

[-] kadu@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah, I guess that's why suddenly audio on Linux stopped being an absolute nightmare, unlike everytime I tried migrating in the past. There's a new audio subsystem?

A couple years ago, trying to use my 2.4GHz wireless headphones to watch a video would hard crash my computer if I was running Linux and tried skipping 5 seconds ahead.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

There’s always a new audio system. ESD, ALSA, JACK, PULSE, PipeWire…

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