[LAD] Is Piperware a successor to Jack/Pulseaudio?

[Will Godfrey]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 12:42:06 +0200
Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:05:00PM +0200, Wim Taymans wrote:
>
>> The pipewire daemon is meant to be small and modular. You could run
>> a custom version of that with only what you want. It could possibly be
>> smaller than jack.  
>
>Systemd started off like that as well... and now it has its tentacles
>everywhere, and has become a nightmare to configure and for security.
>
>Some questions:
>
>* Will PW run without systemd, polkit, dbus ?
>* Will it have a configuration that is fully controlled by the
>  end user, centralised in one place, and that is protected from
>  modification by just dropping files in some ***.d ?
>
>> Is it more complicated? probably.. mostly the memory management and
>> abstractions of the processing nodes.  
> 
>> All of the desktop stuff (pulse-server) and autoconnect things
>> (session-manager) are in separate processes that you don't need to run
>> if you don't want to.  
>
>If this is going the work the same way as systemd I fear it will be
>glorious pain to for the end used to remain in control. 

Feature creep is my greatest concern. I consider myself moderately technical
competent, but struggle with a lot of this stuff. The average user has no hope.

At one time you added things that you wanted. These days you have to remove
what you don't want - but might not even know was there until it interferes
with what you want to do. I originally moved over to Linux to avoid this sort
of thing.

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