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Anyone who has more than a passing familiarity with Linux audio knows about the pulseaudio daemon, and its long history of causing problems with Linux audio in the name of solving them. What it gave us was per-application volume control, but what it took away was reliability. The good news is that there is now a superior replacement for pulseaudio which also replaces JACK in the bargain, called pipewire.

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While Linux marches ever closer to being user-friendly, there are still a few loose ends to be tied up. Networking continues to be a bit of a sticky spot, and Bluetooth support is definitely in need of some refinement. But another area, and one which you would expect to have been tied up nearly by now, is sound. The PulseAudio server can help you take care of this problem, but simply installing it doesn't clear up the problems with programs taking the sound card and never letting you have it back.