Bouzas: PipeWire, the media service transforming the Linux multimedia landscape

The fact that something works for you does not imply that it works for everyone else in the world.

For several years on my computers, whenever the sound stopped working it meant that some package had pulled in pulseaudio.

Of course I'm sure I could have put in the time to debug the issue and fix it. On the other hand, why bother if removing it was all it took to fix the issue?

Also remember that the default configuration of pulseaudio does a thing about relative volumes of streams, which means you'll end up blasting full volumes sounds and possibly getting hearing damage. Distributions are expected to workaround this.

Anyway, I still don't use it because despite now it works ok out of the box, it still solves an issue I've never had. And without it I've always had multiple processes producing sounds.

So please don't be a fanboy and do not discount other people's legitimate issues just because you don't have them. It's not very inclusive.