@gnomelibre @ki personally I've never had to fiddle with #audio under #Linux since it works fine.

Having to use #Jack as the Linux-equivalent of "#VirtualAudioCable" worked fine, and I think #PipeWire not just replaces #ALSA, #OSS & #PulseAudio but also #GStreamer and that is a good thing, because then every Application can just say: "Decode this Audio/Video File" and have a transparent #API & #ABI that automagically does it with the best possible options at hand.

Kinda like #WindowsMediaPlayer on #Windows and #QuickTime on #macOS do by tightly integrating with #decoders amd #drivers...

Also unlike the latter, PipeWire can also be used to record stuff at minimal overhead.

Like with #SystemD this is a complete paradigm shift but like systemd it's kinda "necessary evil" because the status quo evidently sucks for many reasons and many more people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

Or as some people say who had talked to @pid_eins :
'systemd [and pipewire] is [or rather are] a conspiracy to make #Desktop Linux better than it ever has been!'