Pipewire with Cinnamon desktop works just fine but

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First off, follow these instructions…

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However, you will need to keep pulseaudio-alsa because it’s a dependency for the cinnamon desktop. I also found I needed to explicitly remove pulseaudio-jack but YMMV.
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…after a reboot, “pactl info” reported I was running pipewire and, after running a few tests, it appears audio is working just fine.

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You can replace pulseaudio-alsa with pipewire-alsa but you have to remove pulseaudio-alsa after installing pipewire-alsa, if not pacman will complain about dependencies (that’s how I managed to do it at least). pipewire-alsa provides pulseaudio-alsa

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Good pick up. I was able to remove pulseaudio-alsa after getting pipewire-alsa installed. After a reboot, it appears audio is working just fine.

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