[zibzab]

Actually, I tried arch again last month after unfa's video on pipewire support.

Couldn't even revert back to PA when PW failed, the entire system had to be reinstalled.

Can you make it work? Absolutely. Can it fail catastrophically if you make one little mistake? Absolutely.

[Comevius]

PipeWire is basically the files pacman installed, and systemd user services.

This command would have been able to remove it:

  pacman -Rsn pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa

And this disable it:

  systemctl disable --user pipewire pipewire-media-session pipewire-pulse

A common mistake when installing it is forgetting to install pipewire-pulse and pipewire-alsa.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire