I’ve been using PipeWire for a long time. It doesn’t require Wayland and isn’t actually part of the display stack, but is rather a media streaming engine. Of course it is a critical missing component of Wayland also, which is why it goes well with Wayland.
PipeWire does have problems with crackling audio after resuming from sleep though. I don’t know if the Steam Deck uses PipeWire but it has this problem, too, sometimes.
Anyway, I’ve been through the whole thing before and I’m weary of repeating myself unfortunately. But it’s things like broken cursors that don’t work or can’t be enabled for no apparent reason, broken desktop effects, broken docks, panels, VRR (when moving said software cursor), broken GPU power management, broken scaling, blurry text, and on and on it goes. I’m just sick of it, I’m sorry.
PipeWire does have problems with crackling audio after resuming from sleep though
Or just crackling audio in games in general. It breaks from one update to the next, fixes itself and then it’s back again. Been stable for a few weeks now thankfully… Hope I didn’t just jinx it.
How is it breaking further? I’d argue quite the opposite with the adoption of pipewire, for example.
I’ve been using PipeWire for a long time. It doesn’t require Wayland and isn’t actually part of the display stack, but is rather a media streaming engine. Of course it is a critical missing component of Wayland also, which is why it goes well with Wayland.
PipeWire does have problems with crackling audio after resuming from sleep though. I don’t know if the Steam Deck uses PipeWire but it has this problem, too, sometimes.
Anyway, I’ve been through the whole thing before and I’m weary of repeating myself unfortunately. But it’s things like broken cursors that don’t work or can’t be enabled for no apparent reason, broken desktop effects, broken docks, panels, VRR (when moving said software cursor), broken GPU power management, broken scaling, blurry text, and on and on it goes. I’m just sick of it, I’m sorry.
Or just crackling audio in games in general. It breaks from one update to the next, fixes itself and then it’s back again. Been stable for a few weeks now thankfully… Hope I didn’t just jinx it.