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

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I’m assuming it’s a complaint about how low level ALSA is compared to the, E.G. Audio HAL in Android

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        10 months ago

        Well, being low level is exactly what lets to extract better performance, lower latency and other good stuff.

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          10 months 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