Finally, it’s release day for Netrunner 25 
But I don’t understand decision to switch from today’s audio standard in nearly any distro that got any version of Pipewire. Why there isn’t just simply Debian backports enabled for stable Pipewire? Too much complicated ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Totally agree as I just dont understand why Pulseaudio was used as Pipewire is considered the better choice and default for Debian 12.
No decision was made regarding one over the other; the new release picks up from the previous. PipeWire can be considered for the next release.
Im confused as this release is based on Debian 12 which uses Pipewire by default. Yes you carried it over but you did move to Debian 12 so wouldnt it be easier to just use Pipewire?
Im confused as this release is based on Debian 12 which uses Pipewire by default. Yes you carried it over but you did move to Debian 12 so wouldnt it be easier to just use Pipewire?
It’s the default when using GNOME, not the default in general for Debian 12; see PipeWire - Debian Wiki
In Debian 12, PipeWire 0.3.65 is available, and is considerably more reliable, and is a comfortable drop-in replacement for many use-cases. PipeWire is the default sound server with GNOME Desktop.
As I mentioned before, no decision was made regarding one over the other for Netrunner 25. Users wishing to use PipeWire in Netrunner 25 can install it and Wireplumber.
Im aware of that but you do realize that the KDE version of Debian 12 also uses Pipewire. Its not that big a deal overall. Its more the fact that Debian has committed to Pipewire overall regardless of the DE. That is per the Debian Pipewire wiki you posted.
When installing Debian, you choose the DE at the initial install so regardless of the DE you get Pipewire. Ive got Debian 12 installed with three DEs including KDE, and Pipewire is confirmed to be there by default.
Thanks for responding.
Hi. A bit late react for this post (lol), but we hope we will not see any other regressions like X.org session against Wayland of Plasma 6.3.5 in next Netrunner release
And I have one more request if you are really from Netrunner makers team. Please fix this ‘release schedule’ of planning future versions, because even Linux LTS kernels (expect 6.1) have only less or 2 years support… Release Debian 13 based Netrunner, release it in the end of this year and even call it v26
Debian 13 presently isnt going to launch with Plasma 6 as they see it as unstable. They will launch with KDE 5.27 and Xorg is supported but Wayland is the default in 13.
You have wrong info mate
Obviously I was looking at older info as what I was reading was a report by the devs as to what they were going to do with KDE 6 and initially they said it was too unstable. Thanks