You know what software doesn't fill me with dread to update? FOSS.
Proprietary software isn't built for users anymore. But (some) FOSS still is.
speak for your clearly non-pulseaudio-using self (:
If they haven’t been executing a plan to make it extremely painful to maintain a distro that differs significantly from whatever Red Hat’s preferences and ways of operating are (so, making it harder to justify anything but “screw it, we’ll just use red hat, everyone else is just the same thing but with less ability to steer the direction of the OS”), damn the effects on UX, the traditional modular nature of Linux systems, and general open source ecosystem health… well, they’ve sure done a great job of it, so it’d be pretty crazy if that isn’t what they’ve been doing.
For some reason they just can't help themselves from "improving" the themes that people are already using instead of creating new ones that people can choose if they want extra white space or whatever is hip now.
I'm honestly surprised how often in Linux PA with WirePlumber just does the right thing most times, IME.
On contrast, my linux laptop does not have any issue with the same headset and it gets connected instantly.
I'll take a Linux distro any day of the week.
Negligent is a better word. Even opensource linux support for bluetooth is way better for the same devices.
Relatedly, systemd stopped breaking a while ago. Either distros stopped keeping it up-to-date or people can learn.
Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but we spent decades hammering out all the incorrect (for pulseaudio) assumptions in every layer of the stack and papered over impedance mismatches, and then people decide to rewrite from scratch again (though I'll admit I was a vocal pro-dmix anti-pulseaudio hater for a long time).
As someone who's been burnt several times with CachyOS (Arch) updates, I don't think this is true.
Thank you for your service.
Arch reflects the state of linux. I will never say it's perfect. But rolling releases give u the latest stable version of software. Like I said, I've found arch to be easier to fix. I've been burned too many times cos of Ubuntu and the lots.
People seem to believe arch is much more yolo than it actually is (though forks of arch have tended to be pretty yolo, and I assume cachyos is a bit yolo as well based on the issues people have).
I wrote a lil about it all here: https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/01/2024/a-linux-distro-r...
There are even more options you can select.
Using a new version of gcc or clang can cause a lot of problems. I try to avoid updating those.
In their defense the people working on glibc and gcc are pretty intelligent and spend a lot of time thinking about how everything they do affects their users, though they make mistakes like all humans (and LLMs I should say by now).