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I'm so confused, please don't confused a new linux user it doesn't help me
You can find out if you have pipewire or pulseaudio by using
pactl info | grep "Server Name"
You lost me
Pulseaudio used to be the standard audio server.Only recently pipewire has been taking its place.
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I believe @twei meant, if you open a terminal and put in the following command:
pactl info | grep “Server Name” the output should tell you what sound server you are using.
Or an even better and less nerdy was is just using. System taskmaster and seeing pipewire
Not better. There is no way to know if you have "System Taskmaster" installed, as I have never heard of software named that, and their process is system agnostic.
I mean task manger, but on my distro it's just system
Pulseaudio and pipewire are kind of like audio drivers (not exactly but anyway). Let's say you're running spotify and discord. They both send their audio to pipewire. You can then use pipewire to control how loud each one is. It also supports more complex use cases like if you're streaming, you can hook up the spotify output and your microphone mixed together into discord's input so that the mixed audio will be streamed.
Pipewire is newer and basically replaces another system called jack that did the same thing for pulseaudio.