The thing that irks me, is the premium price for storage. Everyone has a cloud storage package to sell, so the air model that has amazing features but small storage will cost you in the long run. Storage should be easy to replace and plentiful!
I had an ARM win11 tablet that constantly cycled my ancient printer with the $11 2000 page toner. A firewall between the tablet and the printer was the answer.
Lennart Poettering. That guy is smart and writes a lot of code. However he is also very controversial: anyone who loves Unix hates him because his ideas are very contrary to the "unix way".
Poettering didn't create pipewire - he created pulse audio which pipewire closely emulates though, and so that will be unfortunate.
The other issue is pipe wire had a very ambitious list of features they wanted to support and it took many years to make everything work according to their vision. Pipe wire has been out for several years before it was good enough that normal people could trust it. I've been running it for a couple years now, it is good now, but it wasn't. Pipewire supports video in ways users really want, and so there was pressure to put pipewire everywhere long before it was ready and so this is unfortunate.
Today I will tell everyone to just use pipewire. It works and supports everything you really want to do.
Bugs, instability, crashing, latency .. compatibility issues, difficult to configure at first .. bluetooth audio is lower quality than it could be (AptX and LDAC codes unsupported) .. performance is not that great compared to pulseaudio and jack ..
I'm ready to believe that pipewire is imperfect (although I have personally experienced no crash, and did not have to configure anything), but the sentence from the original post is:
> Therefore, I naturally omit the use and configuration of additional audio layers in the form of a Jack server, PulseAudio or the unfortunate PipeWire from RedHat.
I cannot understand this sentiment. I have used all three for years each. If I had to qualify one as "unfortunate", it would certainly not be PipeWire (nor would it be Jack for that matter).
> performance is not that great compared to pulseaudio and jack ..
Jack makes different trade-offs by default, so for some definition of performance, yes, one could see it as superior to PipeWire. But in my experience PipeWire is better than PulseAudio on all axes (at least: latency, CPU usage, resampling quality).
> performance is not that great compared to pulseaudio and jack
I'm aware that performance is not quite as good as Jack (but not by significant margins AFAIK), but how is performance worse than PulseAudio? That cuts against every datum I've ever heard about the two.
I agree that wp engine is taking advantage, but that's where negotiations would pay off instead of the bruhaha we're left with. It wouldn't be that hard to present WP engine with some stats "x resources used by WP engine clients" WP engine has the resources to either mirror the plugin/update resources and patch the server URLs in code, or support WordPress.org with donations to offset their resource usage. But I have no idea if anything like that happened before Matt went all 'guns blazing' and now we get to reflect on his past blunders in great detail.
The real problem with WP Engine is that they have been doing very well as a service. Many people believe them to be the most trusted hosting especially in the premium sector. This is earned reputation that Matt would much rather have for his companies.
All the stuff of them not contributing (while they maintain some of the most essential plugins) and them taking advantage… Is simply desperate search for arguments. Wordpress is open-source project licensed under GPLv2 you can use it however you want in limits of that license. And point of GPLv2 is that you can use it pretty much how you want - redistribute it, sell it, modify it. The main limit is that you have to publish the improvements you make to the software.
Its like if Linus Torwalds was suing Amazon AWS.
WP engine is simply not doing anything wrong otherwise Matt would sue them to the ground years ago. WP engine is just too successful for his tastes.
