pipewire replaces pulseaudio completely. There's a pipewire-pulse package as
a bridge for DE that implemented pulse support and not pipewire. It's basically
a daemon that pretends to be pulse and sends requests to pipewire.

On Fri, 12 Sep 2025, Johan Helsingius via Dng wrote:

Cheers,
                 Ludovic

>On 12/09/2025 15:35, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>>If I'm not mistaken, Pipewire requires
>>Pulseaudio, and Pulseaudio requires ALSA.
>
>I thought pipewire replaces pulseaudio.
>

>    Julf

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