@lightweight @radicalresilience @herr_irrtum @Salty @trib @meejah @jdmcg JACK has a specific use case and therefore if you don't have that use case, JACK is not required and you should use straight ALSA instead.

"Linuxen"? You mean systemden?

Pipewire mostly depends on libraries that are not Linux, like systemd and GNU readline, although it does end up interfacing with ALSA.