cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13934384
Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence - OMG! Ubuntu
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/
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.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…
me too i have to do a lot of manual operations to BT to my Linux box. I’ll be looking for this!
This was my main gripe with Linux. I really hated it.
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.
There’s always a new audio system. ESD, ALSA, JACK, PULSE, PipeWire…
