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

    • spauldo@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Pulseaudio was always buggy for me. I’ve only tried pipewire recently and so far I’ve had no issues.

      The only downside is that (from having to do so much troubleshooting) I know more or less how to configure and tweak pulseaudio. If I ever decide to do weird sound things with pipewire, I’m starting from scratch.

      • Carter@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        Pipewire came installed by default on my OpenSUSE TW install and I never get audio in games. I have to constantly switch audio devices until it finally decides to work. I swapped it out for pulseaudio and I’ve never had an issue since.

        • Gamey@feddit.rocks
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          1 year ago

          Strange, I had to manually restart Pulseaudio for months before I finally decided to switch to Pipewire, I guess Linux audio just still sucks!