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So I got an issue request related to pipewire-jack. I installed it
on the Arch laptop to try it out, along with pipewire-pulse,
pipewire-alsa, and wireplumber. The next day tried to stream
Groove Salad though mpd, and it did not work. Doh! But the fix,
after a bit of searching, was easy. Use systemctl to disable pipewire.service/socket.

I also installed pipewire on this always-on PC, no issues.
Except... the box kept hitting swap, large amounts, a gig or so.
Disabled pipewire, seems okay now. We shall see.
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 07:44:40 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

I also installed pipewire on this always-on PC, no issues. Except... the
box kept hitting swap, large amounts, a gig or so.
Disabled pipewire, seems okay now. We shall see.

I'd been using the 3.5mm headphone jack for the speakers. After one
pipewore update the system still saw the hardware but the audio
configuration only showed the default (no) selection. I screwed around far
too long trying to get it to work. It would work with my Bluetooth earbuds
so I bought a set of BT speakers.

The Fedora box didn't have the problem, just Ubuntu.
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