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I've had pretty terrible experiences with pulseaudio only a few years ago. As often on Linux I was probably unlucky with hardware support. More generally I've
by simias 5y ago
I've had pretty terrible experiences with pulseaudio only a few years ago. As often on Linux I was probably unlucky with hardware support.
More generally I've always been frustrated with Linux audio because in my experience for basic audio playback OSS mostly Just Worked and every single API that came after it was buggier and harder to configure for the simple cases while still usually not good enough for professional use.
One exception was Jack which I like quite a lot, unfortunately it's also not natively supported by a lot of software, and that adds a lot of complications in my experience.
But again, I've been running pulse for about six months now and I haven't had any major issues, so credit where it's due.
- kaba0 5y agoThe great thing about pipewire is that it provides a jack stub as well — you can use both pulseaudio and jack software side by side, and even pipe them to each other. I truly believe that once it stabilizes, linux will potentially be the best platform for audio production.
- simias 5y agoI must admit that I'm skeptical of yet another Linux sound API but I really hope that you're right, I'd really like to be able to use Linux for serious sound stuff and finally ditch Windows for that too. I would even be willing to finally learn how to use Ardour correctly!
- jcelerier 5y agoI'm developing a DAW, https://ossia.io https://ossia.io and was recently very impressed by Pipewire : it's able to sustain 32 samples of latency on my hardware (multiface 2) while still working with Firefox, etc.