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Is there one such distrib that is not PulseAudio based? (and possibly also without SystemD). I liked quite a lot Alsa/Jack based audio management, but nowadays
by henearkr 4y ago
Is there one such distrib that is not PulseAudio based? (and possibly also without SystemD).
I liked quite a lot Alsa/Jack based audio management, but nowadays it seems more and more implemented over a PulseAudio layer, which I would try to avoid.
My main motivation is that PulseAudio has had latency problems in the past (I don't know what is its status now, but Alsa/Jack never had such problems), but also I'd to avoid to depend on the DBus infrastructure if it is not strictly required (and in the case of audio management there are alternatives, so DBus is not strictly required).
- kitotik 4y agoPipewire (mostly) works as a drop in for both pulseaudio and jackd. It’s been solid for me with very low latency.
- worik 4y agoWhy is Pipewire better than Jack?
- capableweb 4y agoI'd suggest going to the bottom if HN and searching for "pipewire", looking through previous threads. The benefits of Pipewire against X is discussed in a lot of them.
- npteljes 4y agoFedora uses PipeWire by default, for more than a year now. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire