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    pipewire simply eliminated all the quirks from my use case.

    the transition was annoying, but i don’t even think about how bad linux audio used to be anymore.

    wish the transition to wayland was going this well.

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      With Wayland it was either break everything and improve, progress, and innovate over time with something actually maintainable & expandable,
      Or… make x11\Xorg 2.0 and have to rewrite the entire stack yet again in only a few years.

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      The transition for me was “install Pipewire and its pulseaudio compatibility package, remove pulseaudio, reboot.”

      There are a couple of quirks (updating Apparmor rules makes KDE think I’ve reattached all my audio devices), but it’s mostly pretty smooth.

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        I waited for canonical to enable it by default. The annoying part for me was undoing the workarounds PulseAudio needed to do what I wanted.