On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:35:55 -0700
Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach.gl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It appears that I should try rawhide. Short of removing the elevant
packages, is there anything else that I should know about making the
transition?
That seems a little drastic! While rawhide is far more stable now than
the rawhides of yore, it still has occasional issues because it is
where all the discontinuous changes are introduced. I first started
using rawhide when it was f35. Like you, I found pipewire to be
*difficult* [1]. So, also like you, I switched back to pulseaudio.
When rawhide became f36, I noticed the swap command, used it. I then
read that wireplumber was going to obsolete pipewire-manager, and
switched to it. With the exception of the setting of the default
device and the recent glitch (that, as far as I know didn't get into
stable versions), wireplumber 4.8.2, I have had no problems. I also
have a simple use case, though I have multiple cards. I was able to
set up everything satisfactorily using pavucontrol. I don't use the
command line equivalents, so I don't know if they work, but I didn't
need them.
As far as I am aware, the same versions in rawhide are in the stable
releases, after they pass muster in rawhide.
1. I was using pulseaudio-equalizer, and I didn't find an equivalent
for pipewire, so I was reluctant to give it up. Later, I found the
easyeffects package for pipewire that provides an equalizer, so I made
the switch.