[kwlug-disc] Wayland vs Xorg

[Ron]

(Cleaning up inbox, found unread messages...)


Doug Moen wrote on 2026-02-14 08:28:

> Wayland is always deployed together with Pipewire for audio, and
> it's Pipewire that fixes your audio problems. My audio problems went
> away when I switched my laptop from Mint to Fedora.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2026, at 11:12 AM, Chris Frey wrote:
>> Your report mentioned a lot of audio issues.  Is Wayland that much 
>> in the loop for audio?  I thought that was a pulseaudio thing.
>> 
>> Or is the distro just arranged differently and more effectively?
I had pipewire / wireplumber the whole time, really nothing much changed 
except rebooting into Wayland.


I seem to recall infrequent success by restarting pipewire & 
wireplumber; sometimes it seemed to work (from memory) but usually not.


Then I stumbled on that 3rd monitor disabling trick, and it worked 100% 
of the time.


So damned weird.

But yeah, maybe Wayland on KDE just behaves better with those services.


(But why, and how can X produce noisy audio - not on YouTube - when a 
3rd monitor is enabled?!?)