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[–] cheddar@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pipewire and PulseAudio

What is pipewire? Shouldn't this be alsa vs pulseaudio?

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sir, it's 2024, not 2006.

Pipewire is a more modern replacement for pulseaudio.

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago

Sir, it’s 2024, not 2006.

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have never heard of alsa. Pipewire is supposed to be the better pulseaudio is it not?

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alsa is the very base of the Linux audio system. Pipewire and pulseaudio run on top of it. Back before pulseaudio it was directly used by software