PipeWire Audio Just Works

Audio on Linux is near close to perfection. So I just enabled pipewire on my last device because with it everything literally "just works" ... PipeWire audio having problemo So, I installed pulseaudio so that I could run a voicechanger. Later on, after a restart, I realised that my KDE taskbar was missing - which was suspicious. So...

A screenshot of two Reddit posts about Linux audio. The first person praises PipeWire because everything “just works,” while the second installs PulseAudio to use a voice changer and discovers that the KDE taskbar has disappeared. The joke is the exaggerated contrast between claiming PipeWire is perfect and immediately encountering another absurd Linux configuration problem. EN: A screenshot of two Reddit posts about Linux audio. The first person praises PipeWire because everything “just works,” while the second installs PulseAudio to use a voice changer and discovers that the KDE taskbar has disappeared. The joke is the exaggerated contrast between claiming PipeWire is perfect and immediately encountering another absurd Linux configuration problem.

• @gentoomemes / 3874 2023-04-13