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Wayland, Pipewire, Open Source Slowly Closing?

by earworms·1d ago·3 comments·view on hn ↗

I am kinda depressed over these factors. I have used linux since 2015 and really never ran into problems until the past five years.

I am a composer with a prolithic output; and had a steady workflow for most of the years until musegroup bought out audacity and musescore. (which i have been able to get musescore 2 in a few distros; as i prefer this over any of the post-musegroup alterations.)

the same goes for audacity; prior to their changes it worked... everything flowed beautifully; and boom so many issues occured. (they still do...) since then i started using Tenacity's appimage and have some similar workflow issues due to it being a copy of post changes instead of pre-changes... (2.4.2)

I went from debian to mint; due to the fact that debian wouldn't install on a new nvidia laptop. (and couldn't figure out why due to search being enshitified. or i just don't know how to search)

After this; i learned about pipewire and wayland... which are implimented poorly in Mint (XFCE)

Wayland has been quite atrocious lately and i am uncertain on why my mouse cursor gets pixelated at random points of time. Which would fix it's self after rebooting. Then we have pipewire which causes alsamixer settings to suddenly go mono after restart and it keeps falling back on that after changing the default.

What is happening to linux? I started using it because it wasn't invasive and worked properly (aside from my trying to tackle arch about a decade ago; only to get frustrated and go to lubuntu after distrohopping for a better option.)

I am in search of a good ol' operating system; one with out wayland and pipewire integrated. With musescore 2 in it's repository. GUI install prefered. Something stable; and wouldn't require too much maintainance... If there is a Arch variation with GUI install that would be the best.

Stay tuned to another post about an alternative to archive for free music distrobution so my prolithic output can still be obtained after i die.

This isn't a Linux problem, per se. I've been using Linux since 1996.

It's because you're using XFCE, which might be one of the last desktops to adapt to Wayland. Mint has similar problems, they have also dragged their feet. So the tech stack you have selected has pretty much maximum problems.

You need to embrace Wayland and Pipewire, not avoid them. Linux has never been about being a luddite, rather the exact opposite.

> I am a composer with a prolithic output

Rock music, you say?

Dude we're in the golden age. You dont even know what Linux audio was in 1998