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[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

But also more generally, the whole attitude of "you're just a Luddite who's HOLDING US BACK!!". See also systemd.

(I don't like systemd for completely different reasons (political rather than technical) but the very similar "you just need to get with the times!!!!!!" attitude is also a massive turnoff for basically the same reason.)

(Also see also Rust. Ditto.)

By contrast, Pipewire? Legitimate improvement. It's not just a "change bad" thing. There's a reason Wayland/systemd/rust are controversial and Pipewire isn't. A lot of it is the attitude, I think. People aren't forcing Pipewire, either, and on the app side most stuff seems to still be the Pulseaudio API which is completely fine and means you can use either.