When I first tried it a year ago, it worked for some time until some update that broke my headphones. Half a year ago, when I installed another distro I gave it

When I first tried it a year ago, it worked for some time until some update that broke my headphones. Half a year ago, when I installed another distro I gave it another shot and it worked OOTB. But unfortunately a month ago my headphones stopped working. But they still/always worked in pulseaudio. There seem to be a few issues with my symptoms, yet the maintainers haven’t fixed the regression yet… Until then I’ll be having to use pulse