Pipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?itsfoss.comexternal-link petsoi ( @petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de ) Linux@lemmy.ml • 4 months ago message-square25fedilinkarrow-up1122
arrow-up1122external-linkPipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?itsfoss.com petsoi ( @petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de ) Linux@lemmy.ml • 4 months ago message-square25fedilink
minus-square lengau ( @lengau@midwest.social ) linkfedilink4•4 months agoThe transition for me was “install Pipewire and its pulseaudio compatibility package, remove pulseaudio, reboot.” There are a couple of quirks (updating Apparmor rules makes KDE think I’ve reattached all my audio devices), but it’s mostly pretty smooth.
minus-square umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilink1•4 months agoI waited for canonical to enable it by default. The annoying part for me was undoing the workarounds PulseAudio needed to do what I wanted.
The transition for me was “install Pipewire and its pulseaudio compatibility package, remove pulseaudio, reboot.”
There are a couple of quirks (updating Apparmor rules makes KDE think I’ve reattached all my audio devices), but it’s mostly pretty smooth.
I waited for canonical to enable it by default. The annoying part for me was undoing the workarounds PulseAudio needed to do what I wanted.