I remember a year or so ago when I switched from Pulseaudio to Pipewire, best decision I’ve ever made in my entire life!

Now do JACK.

Pipewire still does the volume at 100 thing. This is very funny when I’m on my high quality USB DAC where 100% volume can definitely break my eardrums and possibly also my headphones. I think I may have finally learned via pain to not have my headphones on when plugging them in.

Other than that, it tends to work pretty much all the time as expected.

21 comments and nobody has yet complained about this meme’s chronology being wrong? (OSS was before ALSA.)

This makes me ponder on how old some of those “issues” are. I remember using ESD over OSS and being very happy to finally be able to hear sounds from multiple programs all together instead of having a single program monopolizing the audio output.

History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes.

That being said, even with all its issues, ever since ESD and now pulseaudio, this has been one of the reasons why I prefer to use Linux over anything else. Mostly for RTP streaming nowadays.

In fact, for a while, pipewire didn’t support RTP streams and I kept using pulseaudio just for this reason.

I tried to solve my audio issue yesterday (im a new linux user)

The audi from hdmi -> monitor is scratchy… most of the time

Guide says uninstall pulse audio. I run the terminal command, cant do that because of popOS desktop requires pulseaudio. Ok. Cant remove popOS desktop either because it will break stuff.

Cant install new audio software either because it conflicts with what i got already…

Found an issue posted on github about it from 2019… “issue closed”

I might try just using a different distro 👨‍💻