[dralley]

Part of the reason PulseAudio got a bad rap is because of bad audio drivers (and sometimes bad hardware), because they refused to work around those bugs at the "wrong" layer of the stack.

After a few painful years though, the bugs got fixed in the "right" places, and that's part of why Pipewire (also developed by Red Hat) was able to come along and replace it so quickly.

And thankfully Pipewire addresses a lot of the actually legitimate issues with PulseAudio

[kriberg]

Lets not forget canonical shipped pulseaudio in Ubuntu before it was really ready. The devs got a lot of hate for something they didn't much control.

[red-iron-pine]

dont know much about linux audio -- what are the problmes?

[dralley]

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ...