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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

I never understood why we didn't just stick with ALSA. OSS was crap, certainly, but ALSA seemed to do the job.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Depending on the output device it's still using ALSA underneath (e.g. Bluetooth output instead is given to the BT stack), PipeWire is dealing with managing and routing the audio output rather than actually performing it.

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