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I now have flashbacks to when I tried to get sound working on my Gentoo install 15 years ago. It seems that now everything has changed (wtf is pipewire) and still requires arcane knowledge to get everything working smoothly...
Pipewire is a major development that's especially important for Wayland desktop. It was hard to miss unless you haven't used Linux in a long time.
I now have flashbacks to when I tried to get sound working on my Gentoo install 15 years ago. It seems that now everything has changed (wtf is pipewire) and still requires arcane knowledge to get everything working smoothly...
Pipewire is a major development that's especially important for Wayland desktop. It was hard to miss unless you haven't used Linux in a long time.
> ALSA is the core layer of the Linux audio stack. It provides low-level audio hardware control, including drivers for sound cards and basic audio functionality. > ... > Ulike PuleAudio and JACK, PipeWire does not require ALSA on a system, in fact if ALSA is installed the output of ALSA is very likely pushed through PipeWire I don't get this part. If ALSA represents the kernel level hardware drivers for audio, how do…
I was also confused by this bit. If ALSA is part of the kernel, how can it not be installed?
I now have flashbacks to when I tried to get sound working on my Gentoo install 15 years ago. It seems that now everything has changed (wtf is pipewire) and still requires arcane knowledge to get everything working smoothly...
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Pipewire is a major development that's especially important for Wayland desktop. It was hard to miss unless you haven't used Linux in a long time.
I don't know what Pipewire is as well. I've used Linux daily for 10+ years, but I've never bothered to use Wayland.
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I don't know what Pipewire is as well. I've used Linux daily for 10+ years, but I've never bothered to use Wayland.
Well, time to move with the progress. I've been using KDE Wayland session for several years already.
> ALSA is the core layer of the Linux audio stack. It provides low-level audio hardware control, including drivers for sound cards and basic audio functionality. > ... > Ulike PuleAudio and JACK, PipeWire does not require ALSA on a system, in fact if ALSA is installed the output of ALSA is very likely pushed through PipeWire I don't get this part. If ALSA represents the kernel level hardware drivers for audio, how do…
I think what they're getting at is that PipeWire speaks the ALSA API, so an app or game that linked against ALSA will connect to PipeWire and should Just Work, without needing to be rewritten to target PipeWire's API.
PipeWire does the same trick with the PulseAudio API as well. on my PipeWire-using NixOS box, for example, I can connect through the `pavucontrol` GUI, my `pactl`-based keybindings work the same, etc. it's a clever design that allows them to avoid what would otherwise be a nasty pile of backwards-compatibility issues and poor desktop user experience.
> ALSA is the core layer of the Linux audio stack. It provides low-level audio hardware control, including drivers for sound cards and basic audio functionality. > ... > Ulike PuleAudio and JACK, PipeWire does not require ALSA on a system, in fact if ALSA is installed the output of ALSA is very likely pushed through PipeWire I don't get this part. If ALSA represents the kernel level hardware drivers for audio, how do…
This. Also, how does PulseAudio not support videoconferencing?
I now have flashbacks to when I tried to get sound working on my Gentoo install 15 years ago. It seems that now everything has changed (wtf is pipewire) and still requires arcane knowledge to get everything working smoothly...