While you might have a point somewhere, I’m not sure it applies in this particular case.
PulseAudio was or still is (I don’t know actually) developed, but you don’t just change a system’s architecture.
creating a new project is easy, and even getting that project into distros can be easier than evolving older projects.
I think this downplays the achievements of PipeWire. Not only is it, contrary to what you write after, backwards-compatible; but if such a project was easy, why aren’t more people / companies doing it?
In my opinion, PipeWire turned Linux systems from being last in multimedia to maybe first place even. Remember capturing the screen or a window before? In fact PipeWire was only extended to audio because the design proved itself so well, so it actually did evolve. Just not from audio to better audio, but from video to video and audio. Saying that starting such a project [edit: is easy] might be technically correct, but then doesn’t make any point.
While you might have a point somewhere, I’m not sure it applies in this particular case.
PulseAudio was or still is (I don’t know actually) developed, but you don’t just change a system’s architecture.
I think this downplays the achievements of PipeWire. Not only is it, contrary to what you write after, backwards-compatible; but if such a project was easy, why aren’t more people / companies doing it?
In my opinion, PipeWire turned Linux systems from being last in multimedia to maybe first place even. Remember capturing the screen or a window before? In fact PipeWire was only extended to audio because the design proved itself so well, so it actually did evolve. Just not from audio to better audio, but from video to video and audio. Saying that starting such a project [edit: is easy] might be technically correct, but then doesn’t make any point.