I'm all good with differences of opinion but please don't answer PipeWire questions with JACK answers..
The forum is not yet named pipewiremusicians.com and was also never named alsapulsejackdmusicians.com 
My opinions are mostly based on experience, and as a musician, the pipewire experience has been problematic for me. Those new to music making on linux may find pipewire is an alpha-quality configuration quagmire. while graybeard veterans of the alsa-pulse-jackd wars may shrug it off as 'business as usual'.
But when bedazzled mac/win users or hardware based musicians considering linux as a creativity platform start sifting through lines or paragraphs of config text, sometimes in multiple locations, they'll often silently leave with smoldering hair, never to return 
Which helps keep linux as a niche platform despite the potential. It's my opinion that head hanchos at Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu etc have done linux musicians no favors by imposing pipewire as a default on all those players downstream. It should never have been released before being far better than the alternatives, and also able to seemlessly coexist with them at a street musicians level of IT skills. Such sketchy leadership made things difficult over the years for those customizing and sharing specialist distros. If nobody informs new users of older but still viable options and their capabilities, in the midst of their travails, I think our niche community will lose some members of value.
Pipewire may be fine in some setups, and OK as a generic multimedia system, but last year's model is still a round wheel, and the new one isn't any rounder, and the config issues are like having mismatched sizes on all the truck's lugnuts 
I enjoy mildly promoting linux out in the wilds, but the reasons there are 1000 linux musicians instead of 1,000,000 need to addressed at the top of the food chain, if things are going to both numerically, and musically improve. The competition for a musician's time and money is (wonderfully) fierce 
, but linux doesn't appear to be gaining ground. If it's too convoluted for junior high and high-skrool music teachers to implement, i don't see things changing any time soon.
Mi dos centavos
I promise that when the next AVLinux version is released, I will give pipewire a fair and thorough testing, lest I become the lame dinosaur stuck in the tarpit 
Statistics: Posted by glowrak guy — Sat Mar 15, 2025 6:40 am