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  A pure wireplumber way to switch audio devices, no pactl $sinkswitch = bash -c 'set -euo pipefail; declare -A m=(); declare -a n=(); ex="^(easyeffects_sink|filter-chain|loopback|null-sink)([-_.].*)?$"; exec 3/dev/null); exec 4/dev/null); cur=; while IFS= read -r l /dev/null & s=/run/current-system/sw/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-volume-change.oga; [[ -r $s ]] && pw-play --volume=0.2 "$s" >/dev/null 2>&1 & notify-send -u low -i /run/curr...

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  If you don't like the immutability then use nobara. Tbh I don't think the issues with immutability are CURRENTLY there. you said this: "Entirely community-driven (so suffer much less from corporate influence, and are better from the Linux "freedom" standpoint compared to Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc.)" give me one example of a time this mattered "Widely adopted (have extensive communities supporting the repos, a large knowledge base and active forums)" fedor...

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  you're right, I oversimplified, bazzite is great because it's unhindered by patents and preinstalls the drivers, I'd recommend a community fedora fork, the key being that it's much easier to turn fedora into this than arch. manjaro is this but with way more footguns, I say this having maintained a bunch of manjaro systems for people, switching them to bazzite fixed nearly all of my maintenance burden, because it's easy to remove them from fedora but impossible with arch, int...

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  My recommendation for someone that needs an appstore with a gui is fedora, manjaro is terrible for this, because they have an appstore that regularly breaks and requires cli intervention anyway, if having a gui for package management is important to you manjaro is a terrible choice, as is arch in general. read some of the comments here, this is not uncommon, and it's a fundamental issue with the design of arch package management that has been completely resolved elsewhere. No, I do not agr...

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  Nooooo! Not property damage noooooooooo!!!!!

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  They get 85% on the last benchmark, this one was specifically designed to stump them, when the last one came out everyone said the same things as this go around. will anyone be retracting their statements when they get to 85% on this one?