Ubuntu 22.10 Is Dropping PulseAudio For PipeWire!!

It's taken a while but Ubuntu is finally embracing pipewire for it's audio stack and dropping pulseaudio, it's nice to see more distros adopting this and hopefully it'll lead to big improvements outside of ubuntu.

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[notimportant]

I'm on board, pipewire has made real time music production on linux go from "incredibly annoying to set up" to 'it just works (with some minor growing pains)". Its a magic bullet for my purposes

[fuseteam]

the change is happening now for a reason: they need time to determine if they can commit to a change for **5 years**

[YanDoroshenko]

Been using PipeWire for a couple of months now (thanks unfa), there used to be some cracking, not anymore, but noise cancelling breaks when trying to use it in some apps (Google Meet for example).

[tohur]

I prefer the default pipewire media session they include instead of wireplumber atm as atm wireplumber breaks virtual audio sinks and sources . Arch went to replace the default session manager with wireplumber couple weeks ago and had to revert the change cause wireplumber is not ready for alot of things atm

[JaneDoe-nlvd]

pulseaudio has been working fine for me, the only issue ive had with audio is when i was testing fedora and they switched to pipewire and it broke my audio

[BeyondImaginationzz]

Ubuntu minimal is good UI/UX because you can choose from live image, for Fedora you have to dig and use Netinstall.

[NoMastersNoMistress]

I'd be thrilled if Pipewire replaced PukeAudio sooner rather than later on ARM distros, because Pulse blows chunks on them.

[spicynoodle]

I've been using PipeWire for almost a year and it never had issues. In fact, even in its beta versions it was better than PA. Pulse used up to 20% of my CPU while gaming. I tried tweaking Pulse just slightly and it started crashing during high loads.

Wow good job Canonical! You adopted the better deal a year later than you should have. Such a controversial move!

[milasudril]

I am happy to wait 2 years before moving to pipewire.

[notuxnobux]

Unfortunately I have issues with pipewire bluetooth but not pulseaudio bluetooth. With pipewire bluetooth my headset stops receiving audio after a while for some reason. I had to switch back to pulseaudio after 2 months of using pipewire.

[kgpcodes]

I can't get any speaker to work on Ubuntu 22.10 right now.

[manolol]

I recently tried Kubuntu 22.10 and had some very strange problems with audio and youtube videos.
Everything was working fine one day, and the next day, I didn't have any audio anymore and youtube videos wouldn't load.
The audio problem could have been something to do with pipewire, but it still makes no sense...

[____-pblg]

The only issue i had with pipewire is the headphone audio not being saved, i'm glad it's getting more users

[mini_bomba]

I've had a few issues in pipewire with games that use FMod for audio not able to find pipewire as the audio output. Thankfully I was able to fix that with a single environment variable forcing FMod to output to the "pipewire" output in alsa.
Overall, I really like pipewire - it has made my complicated audio system that had to use null sinks in pulseaudio much simpler, simply piping output of an app into an input of another with qpwgraph.

[toranshaw]

I beleive this is the first video I've seen, since you've moved. 🙂

How's the new place?

[neandertalac]

With 22.04 I finally switched to LMDE. No going back to 'buntu. Never got used to Arch branch, they work for some time, then something important updates and crash everything.

[Drew_pew_pew_pew]

Been using pipewire for 2 weeks now and as a basic linux user there were 3 problems I had: 1) The lack of good, easy to follow tutorial for setting up a audiocard for audioproduction. 2) No gui to configure pipewire. For my tascam 4x4 I had to specify which bitrates my card can handle otherwise Ardour just wouldn't go to 44.1 khz. 3) While stepping away from pulseaudio the only way I could find to choose the 'pro' profile of your audiocard is installing pavucontrol. If I'm wrong on all 3 of them please give feedback because I'm new to all of this. I want to step away from an OS like ubuntu- studio to a more mainstream OS like Fedora because I only need to record audio occasionally but still need low latency.

[lazyhrse]

Actually, using pipewire jack is much lower latency than pipewire pulse, I have tested this with ao=jack in mpv. However, it's hard to notice but it's a fun fact, so in case you value latency, switch to jack instead of pulse even in pipewire.

[luckyowl]

Pipewire is Essential if you run on Wayland display server and in the half a year I ran Fedora Workstation, Pipewire had no problems

[TheOvermaster]

Ever since I swapped to PipeWire my audio is actually better than Windows's (Windows drops my USB audio occasionally - PipeWire has never dropped it once I set it up properly aka only had it and not some zombie PipeWire plus Pulse setup )