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minus-squarelengau@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months 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.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoI waited for canonical to enable it by default. The annoying part for me was undoing the workarounds PulseAudio needed to do what I wanted.
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.
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.