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Comment by nine_k

1 day ago

Who does still run pulseaudio when pipewire exists?

People using LTS releases, who do you know... actual work instead of just compiling your kernel over and over.

  • An LTS releases that are soo old usually run on servers, where pulseaudio is not really a thing.

    My distro's compile farm compiles kernels for me (thanks guys!), and switched to pipewire years ago.

Edit: This is incorrect, as pointed out below.

Pulseaudio still does the device juggling etc on most systems even when there's a pipewire backend.

  • Wrong. Pipewire is pulseaudio-compatible, and the device juggling is done by wireplumber

  • Are you sure? On every device I could quickly reach (Gentoo, NixOS, Pop OS, all with vanilla/default pipewire configs), `ps aux |grep -i pulse` only turns up pipewire-pulse.