I’ve seen so many audio changes on Linux. But Pipewire is the first one without any negatives.
Yeah it’s basically Pulseaudio, but better. The devs have done a great job on iterating upon the already pretty good pulseaudio!
It’s more like JACK for desktop. PA was never good, just obvious bad design.
I’d have to disagree with that. It wasn’t perfect and there were issues for many people at the beginning, but it united everything properly.
Before then (in xmms days), don’t forget that audio in apps constantly didn’t work, and the sound servers often conflicted. It was far from a seamless experience.
But, pipewire I agree doesn’t seem to have any downsides and finally fixes from what I felt was the last major issue (low latency)
PA works on most case tho. Can’t deny all the good it did.
Also, is JACK any good?
