Aur

This is Part 3 of the Arch Linux Install series. With a bootable, networked system from Part 2, we’ll now expand pacman with multilib and the AUR, and bring up the core hardware services (audio, bluetooth, printing, and graphics), everything the desktop in Part 4 will need. Why PipeWire and yay? PipeWire over PulseAudio: PulseAudio has been the default Linux audio server for over a decade, but it only handles audio. Getting professional audio routing meant running JACK alongside it, often fighting over the same devices. PipeWire replaces both: it speaks PulseAudio’s protocol for regular desktop audio and JACK’s protocol for pro-audio and screen-sharing pipelines, all from one daemon. That’s why we install pipewire-pulse instead of pulseaudio itself. It’s a compatibility layer, not a second audio server. ...