What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?

  • ozymandias117
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    2 years ago

    There’s still a fine line to draw between usability and performance

    ALSA is too low level for musicians to reasonably understand

    Having something like PipeWire to make it easier to configure isn’t a bad thing

    • uis
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      2 years ago

      People here also are asking for super low-latency

      • ozymandias117
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        2 years ago

        That’s another nice thing about PipeWire.

        It supports configuring JACK for you if you need low latency

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          2 years ago

          One person above(Audbol) want to go even lower.