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

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[–] gamey@feddit.rocks 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's half true, Pulseaudio always was very buggy and a main reason for Linux bad reputation regarding none pro audio but most Distros switched already so if you use the default it will probably be Pipewire already.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't even know why PA grew so much in the first place besides per-application volume control, unkept promises and straight lies.