Raspberry Pi OS Switches To PulseAudio, Updated Chromium

[loganj]

does Pi4 support 5.1/7.1 audio out? i actually have no clue how hdmi audio works (on computer or on the receiver)

[unic0rn]

I thought some distros were starting to move from PulseAudio to Pipewire now, and Raspberry Pi OS is just making the move to PulseAudio?



Manjaro is not a distro with competent or trustworthy developers.

And we should consider you competent and trustworthy when it comes to judging Manjaro developers why exactly?

[ssokolow]

Nice. Now I can use a Pi to easily build the PulseAudio equivalent of a Chromecast dongle.

[oiaohm]

I'm sure they noticed most people ended up using the Pi as if it were a whole computer... (it technically is, but wasn't it meant for education/prototyping?)

When you think of a raspberry pi and the modern replacement old entry level computers like the C64. Remember education at times have had trouble having enough computers for students do their work.

Pi key requirement is be cheap. Really its impressive that we have gone from 256Megs of ram in 2012 to 2G of ram 2020 for 35 dollar complete computer board. Does ask the question what will a 35 dollar Pi board look like in another 5 years.

[andre30correia]

I have a 3B running on Arch, headless, to do some automation and DNS filtering, it's sort of a waste and I thought of replacing it for something else of late like a ZeroPi, but I don't really have another need for it and the alternatives go for around $20 with postage.

What surprises me is that the graphics department still seem to be tied to certain blobs or APIs or something. From the blog post:



I understand the Pi 3B being old (running it with a 64-bit OS may not make much sense for example), but the 4B with 8GB of RAM? Is it not possible to run any other OS to get full hardware acceleration on the thing? It could make for a decent low-cost alternative for light computing.

ubuntu 20.10 is compatible with pi4 and with 8gb ram it have enought resourges for web and office and some light gaming even using gnome and ubuntu is much better alternative than raspeberry os tomany bugs to dated software, ofc it's light for old versions like rpi3b+ but for the 4 with at least 4gb of the ram ubuntu or manjaro are better for desktop and others things no doubts about that

[Mthw]

Manjaro is not a distro with competent or trustworthy developers.

I mentioned Manjaro mostly because it is easier to install for beginners. For everyone else there is Arch Linux (ARM).

[aspen]

I thought some distros were starting to move from PulseAudio to Pipewire now, and Raspberry Pi OS is just making the move to PulseAudio?

There is also Manjaro ARM with KDE Plasma and probably also newer packages.

Manjaro is not a distro with competent or trustworthy developers.

[Danny3]

There is also Manjaro ARM with KDE Plasma and probably also newer packages.

Hmm... you're right.
Hopefully there are no compatibility problems with stuff designed for Debian version.
I wonder if Wayland session of KDE works.
I remember Raspberry Pi developers were trying at some point to do that for Raspbian, but haven't heard anything about it for quite some time.

[KaoDome]

I have a 3B running on Arch, headless, to do some automation and DNS filtering, it's sort of a waste and I thought of replacing it for something else of late like a ZeroPi, but I don't really have another need for it and the alternatives go for around $20 with postage.

What surprises me is that the graphics department still seem to be tied to certain blobs or APIs or something. From the blog post:

We’ve updated the Chromium browser to version 84. This has taken us a bit longer than we would have liked, but it’s always quite a lot of work to get our video hardware acceleration integrated with new releases of the browser.

I understand the Pi 3B being old (running it with a 64-bit OS may not make much sense for example), but the 4B with 8GB of RAM? Is it not possible to run any other OS to get full hardware acceleration on the thing? It could make for a decent low-cost alternative for light computing.

[Mthw]

I would be happier if they switched their desktop environment to KDE Plasma!

There is also Manjaro ARM with KDE Plasma and probably also newer packages.