Going all-in on a Wayland future
blogs.kde.org
Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    3·
    20 hours ago

    I still have almost no idea what PulseAudio and PipeWire even do, aside from them being two of five(!) different audio-related subsystems that any given sound problem might be related to. (The others being OSS, ALSA, and JACK, which I also don’t understand.)

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      4·
      20 hours ago

      OK, let’s see if I remember well:

      OSS is obsolete.

      ALSA is a basic primitive way to do play audio streams integrated into the kernel.

      PA is an abstraction on top of ALSA that helps with network stuff, per-application volume control, …

      JACK is an alternative to ALSA/PA for low latency professional use cases: you can plumb it yourself, connect inputs/outputs, …

      PW is an efficient implementation of both PA and JACK, which is better than the original PA in latency.