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[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Both were just a pain in their own right, IMHO. My previous Focusrite interface was quite fiddly to get working with ALSA and just worked OOTB with Pulseaudio. I also don’t miss messing with ALSA/JACK at all.

Pipewire has pretty much been a drop-in replacement for me, with how it can act as a Pulseaudio backend.

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago

Possibly hardware dependent?

I always had audio hardware that was well supported by ALSA, I never had any ALSA issues until applications stopped supporting it.

[-] Oisteink@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

Does pipewire interface directly to drivers or is it user-space magic on top of alsa like pulseaudio?

[-] Peter1986C 1 points 10 months ago

I believe it is U-space on top, but I could be wrong.

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