OPINION
RING THE PLUMBER!
George Kiagiadakis
George Kiagiadakis Senior software engineer, Collabora
A key improvement that PipeWire brings over PulseAudio is that the policy is separate from the media handling. The policy is the code that decides which audio device to use, which software has access to them and how it’s all connected. In PipeWire, the policy engine is called a session manager. WirePlumber is the modular and extensible session manager that brings configurability and an abstraction layer to make it easier to create these policies.