That's impressive, so at least one distro apparently decided to tune their OS to work out of the box with contemporary media.
You probably will still get lower latencies with ALSA or with Jack on ALSA but if Pipewire's working well enough for you not to need to bother switching that's great.
bhilmers wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 4:38 pmIt's basically there now. When I started using Linux 13 years ago I cursed the sky at how hard it was to do audio. This year I have a System76 desktop with the newest version of Pop_OS! which comes with Pipewire. Out of the box, I installed Reaper (Linux), plugged in my MIDI controller and audio interface... and everything worked with low latency. I literally did no tweaking of my system. Didn't add myself to the audio group. Didn't edit limits.conf. Nothing. For the first time I feel that I can recommend Linux for audio to my friends because it's literally as easy to use as Win/Mac.