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Looks Like Ubuntu 22.10 Will Finally Switch to PipeWire by Default and Drop PulseAudio

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9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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Canonical plans to finally adopt PipeWire as the default sound system in the upcoming Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release instead of PulseAudio in an attempt to provide better audio for users.

If you were wondering when Ubuntu will finally switch to PipeWire as default for audio, it looks like your wish might come true with the next release of Ubuntu Linux, the Kinetic Kudu, due out later this year on October 20th.

Canonical employee and Ubuntu Desktop developer Heather Ellsworth was the one to reveal the other day on a thread on the Ubuntu Discourse channel the fact that the Ubuntu devs are planning to run only PipeWire and not PulseAudio as the default sound server for the Ubuntu 22.10 release.

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