[Izkata]

My laptop would regularly freeze and need a hard reboot, and I never could figure out why. One day for a completely unrelated reason I decided to try switching from pulseaudio to pipewire, with no other changes (including no other upgrades; I'm lazy and like stability), and months later I realized it hadn't frozen at all. Still hasn't, years later. The problem was definitely pulseaudio making the whole system unstable, not just causing audio issues.