What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?

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Well, being low level is exactly what lets to extract better performance, lower latency and other good stuff.

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There’s still a fine line to draw between usability and performance

ALSA is too low level for musicians to reasonably understand

Having something like PipeWire to make it easier to configure isn’t a bad thing

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People here also are asking for super low-latency

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That’s another nice thing about PipeWire.

It supports configuring JACK for you if you need low latency

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