I've been running openSUSE Tumbleweed on my desktop (nothing fancy though for audio), and at some point last year (July perhaps), an update removed pulseaudio a

I've been running openSUSE Tumbleweed on my desktop (nothing fancy though for audio), and at some point last year (July perhaps), an update removed pulseaudio and installed pipewire. If I hadn't been paying attention I wouldn't have noticed. It was a seamless drop in replacement. Everything works at least as good as it did with pulseaudio. I still use pavucontrol and some other pulseaudio stuff and it just works with no issues with pipewire-pulse.