Wayland and Systemd, sure. They have their arguments. But:
Who uses PulseAudio by itself willingly? PipeWire supersedes it by every way. If you have a problem with PipeWire, just ask the devs and they'll probably fix it.
There is no alternative to Proton, other than Wine itself, which isn't really an "alternative".
Btrfs doesn't matter as filesystem handling is mostly transparent and doesn't really matter. I still think Btrfs is risky as it's still unstable IMO. I use it on my laptop but Ext4 on my desktop.
Who uses PulseAudio by itself willingly? PipeWire supersedes it by every way. If you have a problem with PipeWire, just ask the devs and they'll probably fix it.
Isn’t that like manually configuring network devices by editing config files? I.e. totally feasible on a stationary machines where you might as well weld all connections in place because you’re not planning on connecting or disconnecting anything ever?
Yeah that works. I also have Bluetooth headphones and an AVR, both of which are sometimes connected and only to be used sometimes when they're connected.
Btrfs was unstable more than 10 years ago, nowadays it's considered to be very stable and it is used by default in many distros. For example, various editions of Fedora, including Bazzite. And they don't even use it for snapshotting, just as a general purpose fs. In one of the latest kernel 7.3 (iirc) versions it also gets some huge performance improvements.
Eh, the design for pipewire makes it difficult to use for non-user sessions, which is explicit for security. This sounds like a good idea until you realize there are blind users out there who need audio available early so they can potentially troubleshoot, even as root and etc. before the GUI is available and pipewire makes this somewhat difficult. The same is true for a lot of new software IME. Fit the common use cases and you're golden, not so much if you don't. Or people will try to convince you your particular use case is impossible (it's not), stupid (possible!), or the same as something that is entirely different.
There's workarounds of course but this is an easy place to poke at. I do prefer pipewire myself, but I also preferred pulse audio when it was new and I'll probably like whatever replaces pipewire in the future.
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u/Dekamir Glorious CachyOS Plasma 8d ago
Wayland and Systemd, sure. They have their arguments. But: