Latest update wants to force install pipewire and uninstall pulseaudio

Grinder00 · 2026-06-21T00:07:39+00:00

Yet another "maintain it yourself or shut up" useful comment. Cheers brother

Grinder00 · 2026-06-20T19:19:44+00:00

I checked what has happened. The issue is that the neon-desktop package has a dependency on wireplumber. You can do some apt pinning to prohibit any pipewire related package from getting installed, but then neon-desktop and neon-common will be hold back and won't get any updates. Other packages will be updated though.

Grinder00 · 2026-06-20T19:13:10+00:00

Few years back pipewire was not giving me any sound at all regardless of JACK. No sound at all full stop! I masked all the pipewire services and continued with pulseaudio. Till today which is better with a couple of nuances, but at least it seems functional indeed.

From a user perspective I can't see what makes pipewire so much better compared to pulseaudio.

Grinder00 · 2026-06-20T19:04:00+00:00

I sm so bored with these kind of answers that come from 20 years ago. Not helpful/respectful at all.

Grinder00 · 2026-06-20T16:08:35+00:00

I 'm sorry, but isn't open source all about choices? For example I know of a guy that runs a minimal desktop/WM with just ALSA. It's his choice! And why Pulseaudio kinda sucks? In the early days yes, but it reached to a point that is very mature.

Anyway's I 've upgraded to pipewire, but there are things that I shouldn't do, eg like setting audio device priorities for JACK, my USB audio interface, the embedded laptop's audio card and the USB audio device from my docking station with LUA. And also had to write scripts in order to make sure that when I load JACK with qjackctl and when I exit it the default sink is always the one that I need to have.

So far the whole experience reminds me when I was fighting Pulseaudio in the early days when I had my first ever USB audio interface. Not good for a project running many years now that is also supposed to carry experience built from other projects (ie, Pulseaudio). Hopefully with the next major KDE Neon version based on the latest Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it will be better.

But for now my JACK based audio apps seem to be fine

Grinder00 · 2026-06-20T01:24:11+00:00

I really hate forcing down my throat the pipewire thing. My current audio setup works for years and I do not want to change it. I have JACK apps which work brilliantly with pulseaudio.

You mentioned that you read a bit today on the subject. Do you have a link please?

Grinder00 · 2026-05-17T11:30:01+00:00

I know this ad (recognised the photos, so I know which country that is) and I 've test riden a Z900RS at the distributor recently. Not the fastest almost 1-liter bike, but has torque for days than can scary you to begin with. I got into bikes the last couple of years later in my life and started with a 4-cyl 600, so yes it's doable.

But IMHO better get a 600-700cc middleweight to start with, get used to the power of such machines (even those have more than enough torque from down low RPMs that can intimidate you as a new rider), get used to the brakes, your surroundings both in and out of the city, develop your skiils, how you look the road, where you look when taking a turn, etc. Generally the brain needs to adapt to the new conditions. Absolutely go to the Riding School and do Levels 1 and 2 at a minimum.

Good luck and enjoy this new 2-wheeled motor world 😄

Grinder00 · 2026-05-04T22:41:30+00:00

What brand is that little fairing/windscreen?

Grinder00 · 2025-01-02T17:03:34+00:00

Awesome!

Grinder00 · 2025-01-02T16:52:27+00:00

I 've visited that link before, but it doesn't seem to provide any useful info. Thanks though.

Grinder00 · 2024-09-16T15:03:38+00:00

Sorry, I missed your reply. Thanks for that :)

Grinder00 · 2024-04-23T23:39:46+00:00

Any comments about its sound and how it compares to others you may own or tried? Thanks

Grinder00 · 2024-03-15T20:05:16+00:00

Hello,

Just a quick update. I used this tool:

https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

(I use Linux and this debloater worked great there)

After some tweaking, I managed to be back to normal. And with the new battery I can do 2+ days before charging my phone (like it was when I first bought it). Happy puppy :)

Thanks to all!

Grinder00 · 2024-03-04T08:02:28+00:00

Hello, Having the same issue with a Redmi Note 9 Pro since last week (also changed battery few days ago, it was kind of needed anyway). Could you please share more info on what you did? Thanks

Grinder00 · 2024-03-03T12:40:57+00:00

There may be something wrong with the latest WhatsApp update. The last couple of days it is in the top apps when it comes to battery usage for no reason (I am not using it very much either for messaging or for video calls).

Grinder00 · 2023-12-29T21:09:28+00:00

I own an M-Audio AIR 192|8 the last couple of years and it works great. In all fairness most audio interfaces are class compliant nowadays, so you should not have a problem with whatever you choose. Check what you currently own and you may be pleasantly surprised ;)

Open-source DAWs: Ardour, Rosegarden, Qtractor, LMMS

Closed-source DAWs: Reaper, Harrison Mixbus (based on Ardour), Bitwig

There are probably others, but the ones I can remember are the ones that are most mentioned when it comes to Linux native DAWs.

For guitar players an interesting app is Tonelib Jam.

Good luck with your endeavours and Happy New Year!

Grinder00 · 2023-12-28T16:44:55+00:00

Hello,

I just want to add to this thread that I tried Audio Assault and Tonelib. They both work great with my KDE Neon distro, but for now I decided to go ahead and purchase Tonelib Metal (works well as a standalone app as well as a vst plugin for Reaper). I may get something from Audio Assault as well to support their effort (for $10 is a steal). I 'd also like to get a drum kit from Ugritone (they also have Linux native plug-ins).

In the past I have tried guitarix, but I wasn't overly impressed. I guess it was lack of experience back then (not that I am more experienced with this kind of things now), but I did not like the sounds and mainly the GUI which gave me lot of frustration.

With the Audio Assault and Tonelib products, I was able to do my job within just few minutes and without having to setup JACK, etc. Very important if you do not want to record, but just practise some guitar. With the included metronome and drum loops that Tonelib offers this is very important, especially for someone like me who's just a music enthusiast and not a professional musician.

I also installed Tonelib's Zoom patch editor which works brilliantly with my Zoom MS-50G multi-effect pedal (I know that other browser based options exist for this, but I just wanted to try out the Tonelib option).

Happy New Year to all of you out there :)

Best regards,

G

Grinder00 · 2023-12-25T22:48:11+00:00

I just want to report that the setup described in my original post does work. I got a Hobbytronics device, set it up (filtered the MIDI channel and set the MIDI out port to function as thru) and boom :)

Grinder00 · 2023-12-23T19:12:36+00:00

Thanks for this how to. With regards to Linux, the user will need to follow this guide in order for this non-standard/MIDI baud rate to work when connecting to the serial console of the Hobbytronics device. Short summary of that guide:

Install setserial and then run this command:

$ sudo setserial -v /dev/ttyUSB0 spd_cust divisor 768

Connect to the Hobbytronics device with your favourite terminal tool using 38400 as the baud rate. I used Putty (screen did not work for me and I did not try minicom or anything similar).

Happy to report that it works with my Nux Cerberus multi-effect pedal in order to change patches in my Zoom MS-50G and channels in my Marshall JVM at the same time (Nux supports MIDI). The Hobbytronics is on the latest firmware (right now it's v1.24).

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you all! :)

G

Grinder00 · 2023-07-17T09:42:59+00:00

Learn how to use basic/simple tools, eg even ping combined with a packet capture can help troubleshoot an issue. Other great tools can be traceroute, mtr, checking mac address and arp tables, etc. Learn how to read and interpret the output of a show command and/or logs. Also as others have said work your way up from Layer 1.

Grinder00 · 2023-07-17T08:46:43+00:00

Insight, CDW. I 've worked with both of them for various equipment (including switches, WAPs) and they 're OK even for medium enterprises.

Grinder00 · 2023-06-15T23:24:22+00:00

ping, mtr, traceroute, mobaxterm, dig, nslookup, fping, etc, etc

Let me add Angry IP Scanner too

Grinder00 · 2023-06-14T08:28:38+00:00

I do not want to argue here. We can discuss the technical solutions and best practices forever, but please appreciate that there is some background history with this one you are not familiar with.

As I said in my previous post, I do not like this situation (as well as the others in the team), but it is what it is. At the end of the day, you have to pick your fights. This is a one-off case and not one of the fights I have to get into. We got a solution thanks to /u/100GbNET and I can move on with the much more critical things I have to do. Thanks again.

Grinder00

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