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minus-squareRustmilianlinkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-21 year agoWith 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 year agoThe 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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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.
And it was the X devs who made the choice.
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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