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PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fact this issue is happening on both Pipewire and Pulseaudio also suggests it’s more likely a bug in the drivers… It might not be obvious on ALSA directly, but that doesn’t mean an issue doesn’t exist there…

I probably made the overlap unclear, sorry:

Pipewire issues: My 2023 desktop and 2016 laptop, very different hardware.
Pulseaudio issues: All of my pre-2023 desktops and several family laptops

I do a lot of middleware development and we’re regularly blamed by users for bugs/problems upstream too (which is why we’ve now added a huge amount of enduser diagnostics/metrics in our products which has made it more obvious the issues aren’t related to us).

Eep, that's annoying. You also probably don't have direct interaction with the users most of the time (they're not your customer) which makes this worse, people in a vacuum follow each other's stories.

In practice, very few people have issues with Pulseaudio (I haven’t seen issues since launch). Sometimes as well, keep in mind it can be the sound interface (especially if its USB)

There might be a bias here because these problems are not persistent, ie a reboot fixes them.

In regards to setup, most distributions will handle that anyway I’m guessing. So not sure why the configuration process should matter unless you’re in Arch or Slackware? As long as the distribution handles it, it shouldn’t matter. It’d really a non-issue honestly.

That's potentially more things different distros can do differently and more issues your middleware will start getting blamed for.

Yes it's not a problem for user-friendly distros, but why does the user friendliness problem exist anywhere anyway? It's better to fix problems upstream, not downstream.