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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Pipewire is really buggy for me so I just use pulseaudio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had the opposite experience, Pulseaudio is a buggy pile of shit if you ask me!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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!

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