PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

For whatever it's worth I still run purely ALSA with software mixing, including things like USB audio devices (just added a new mic yesterday), multiple applications playing audio at the same time, and everything Just Works with no issues. I do have a .asoundrc, but it's pretty boilerplate and I haven't had to change it in years. The only time I have audio trouble is when I need to run a program that only supports pulse (but there's apulse for that).

The only thing I occasionally pine for is per-process volume control.