I’m sorry. I shouldn’t even know what Pulse Audio is. It should just quietly do it’s thing. The fact that I know it’s name tells you enough. I have to constantly kill it in order to stop terrible audio distortions. It often struggles managing multiple audio sources from different applications. It completely fails at managing bluetooth devices often forcing audio output that sounds like AM radio and requiring a complete system reset in order to allow high fidelity output. Pulse Audio is the worse and most unacceptable part of my Linux Distro and should be completely abandoned as a total failure and an embarrassment to any developer who is shameless enough to take credit for working on it.

  • @lxviOP
    5•1 year ago

    I didn’t even realize my version was out-of-date. I just upgraded to 20 a few months ago. WhoamI suggests that Pipewire is the standard sound server system in version 21 already, so I guess the Mint team was ahead of me about being done with pulseaudio.

    I think it’s really cool you can just transition something as integral as the sound server system with essentially a few on/off switches.

    I wish I was a better operator. Linux is an incredible system and I have the faintest idea about how to do anything with it.