Well, we had a lot of layers in Linux Audio the last 30 years. But when PulseAudio was forced into the world by a c-section, with everyone in the LA community already knowing its a still-birth, I kind of lost trust in coordinated project creation. PA makes me so unhappy that I totally uninstall it whereever I see it. Good for me that I am just a console user, because the damn beast is all over the GUI space.
Fact is, RT audio is hard, and the peoplebehind JACK have cared for the underlying problems for a long time already.
Maybe PipeWire, but to be honest, it reminds me too much of PA.
I guess I will stay with plain JACK and SuperCollider as my toolbelt, and not care about PA or PW. Like the grumpy old hacker I am.
Fact is, RT audio is hard, and the peoplebehind JACK have cared for the underlying problems for a long time already.
Maybe PipeWire, but to be honest, it reminds me too much of PA.
I guess I will stay with plain JACK and SuperCollider as my toolbelt, and not care about PA or PW. Like the grumpy old hacker I am.