Package Change Summary:
pulseaudio → pipewire-pulse
pipewire-media-session → wireplumber
As time has gone by, pipewire is actively becoming the superior replacement to pipewire with both better simplicity, more modern features, and far better performance. At its current state, it is very much usable for the average user and provides a measurable benefit to the user experience with audio. Since 22.10, Kubuntu has used pipewire as its default audio server and no longer supports pulseaudio.
It will - Ubuntu 22.04 is where the current pipewire setup comes from. It’s not sometime neon changes.
When they upgrade the base to 24.04 (soon-ish), it will have the full pipewire/wireplumber setup.
I believe you need to actually upgrade pipewire in order to support wireplumber, or it is just easier /or works properly/better.
I’m sure I tried doing this on the stock Ubuntu 22.04 pipewire, but I can’t recall what issues I may have had. I upgraded it using the Pipewire-Debian project some years ago, when I switched to using Wayland full time. I normally would use existing versions for the propose, so I must have had issues, I just can’t recall exactly what they were.
No issues with Pipewire-Debian in the time I’ve been using it, which is at least 2 years now.