From: Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
Does this mean the rest of the distros are going to be switching from PulseAudio to Pipewire in the (not too distant) future?
I think that they are or have.
I hope the transition goes better than it did when we went from ALSA to PA. When PA was first being introduced it broke the previously working sound system on my desktop for almost 3 years.
Do you know why it broke? Sound systems can break for a million reasons. Some deep, some shallow. All change has a chance of breaking things. In theory, this change has a low chance. If you care, try a distro that has made the transition and see how it works. Then report any errors. I think Fedora has switched. If you test the current Fedora 40 Beta Release, the maintainers should be particularly interested in problem reports. Here's an old page about the transition: <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire>