Switching from PulseAudio to PipeWire on Arch Linux

Hello,

In the last few days I had / wanted to switch to Pirewire for 3 Arch Linux installations from Pulseaudio.

I thought that would be complicated and cause problems. That was not the case at all.
So I want to share my path with you if anyone needs it.

Install Pipewire

pacman -S pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa

The package pulseaudio-bluetooth may need to be uninstalled

pacman -R pulseaudio-bluetooth

Activate and start services

systemctl --user enable pipewire.service
systemctl --user start pipewire.service
systemctl --user enable pipewire-pulse.service
systemctl --user start pipewire-pulse.service

Maybe a reboot is needed for some function key on Laptops.

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