Here's my two cents: What even IS pipewire? I know what the compositor is because I've been given the choice of either X or Wayland in the past so I had to lear

Here's my two cents: What even IS pipewire? I know what the compositor is because I've been given the choice of either X or Wayland in the past so I had to learn what they are. I've heard of pipewire in the past but I have no clue what it is, where does it fit in the display stack, etc.. Same for the linux audio stack. I don't expect final users to know how to do these though. They want to download OBS and it needs to just work. I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement both in the case of Zoom as to support all setups but I'd assume it's not that trivial, and given other comments above where Wayland seems to have had more than one API for capture you can see where some of these issues come from.