I remember a lot of people kicking up a fuss about it years ago saying it’s a mess and we should stick to PulseAudio or routing audio to ALSA, but personally for me it’s been great, far less troublesome than previous solutions, and the vast majority seem to agree.
The pain points were short-lived and now we’re reaping the benefits of having a modernised, easier to maintain, less janky system. Credit to the devs, and to the distros who pushed it.
The latency is insanely low on Pipewire, which is important for rythm games like osu!, that’s why I originally switched to it. It’s also really cool how it’s compatible with all other audio backends as well.
And rightly so. There’s a reason we’re migrating away from pulse to pipewire.
For the longest time the solution to any audio issues was “just uninstall PulseAudio, and use plain ALSA”, and that usually worked. I held out for years and ran an ALSA only setup because it just worked and PulseAudio was always giving me one issue or another (audio lag, crackling, unexplained muting), until some applications started to drop ALSA support.
Then Pipewire came along, and so far it has been rock solid for me.
Both were just a pain in their own right, IMHO. My previous Focusrite interface was quite fiddly to get working with ALSA and just worked OOTB with Pulseaudio. I also don’t miss messing with ALSA/JACK at all.
Pipewire has pretty much been a drop-in replacement for me, with how it can act as a Pulseaudio backend.
PipeWire is great.
I remember a lot of people kicking up a fuss about it years ago saying it’s a mess and we should stick to PulseAudio or routing audio to ALSA, but personally for me it’s been great, far less troublesome than previous solutions, and the vast majority seem to agree.
The pain points were short-lived and now we’re reaping the benefits of having a modernised, easier to maintain, less janky system. Credit to the devs, and to the distros who pushed it.
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The latency is insanely low on Pipewire, which is important for rythm games like osu!, that’s why I originally switched to it. It’s also really cool how it’s compatible with all other audio backends as well.
There was a similar fuss when distros moved from alsa to pulse.
Having been a linux user around the time of both rollouts I’ve had a way better time with pipewire. We’ve come a long way since OG pulseaudio
And rightly so. There’s a reason we’re migrating away from pulse to pipewire.
For the longest time the solution to any audio issues was “just uninstall PulseAudio, and use plain ALSA”, and that usually worked. I held out for years and ran an ALSA only setup because it just worked and PulseAudio was always giving me one issue or another (audio lag, crackling, unexplained muting), until some applications started to drop ALSA support.
Then Pipewire came along, and so far it has been rock solid for me.
Both were just a pain in their own right, IMHO. My previous Focusrite interface was quite fiddly to get working with ALSA and just worked OOTB with Pulseaudio. I also don’t miss messing with ALSA/JACK at all.
Pipewire has pretty much been a drop-in replacement for me, with how it can act as a Pulseaudio backend.