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[-] who@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But here’s where Debian gets tripped up by the ecosystem: the moment you hit a login prompt, you enter a session with user-locked audio. This isn’t Debian’s fault. It’s the fault of PulseAudio, PipeWire, and the entire philosophy of session-bound audio daemons that don’t care what the kernel is doing.

It's worth noting that PipeWire is being developed with support for a system-wide, multi-user instance, which should solve the problem that I think the author is describing above. When I last checked a couple years ago, it was enabled with this build option: -Dsystemd-system-service=enabled

The name of that flag seems to imply that systemd is required, which would be disappointing for folks who use other init systems. I haven't tried it, so I don't know if it's a true requirement or just a name that was convenient at the time it was created.

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