I use `fwupd`[0] all of the time.
Mandatory: I use arch btw :D
Mandatory: I use arch btw :D
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SystemFirmwareUpdates
> Using as a substitute for PulseAudio/JACK/ALSA
> Debian 11
> As per Simon McVittie, "This is not a supported scenario for Debian 11, and is considered experimental."
(Debian Wiki, PipeWire)
In Fedora, it is default since Fedora 35 (released in 2021/11).
NixOS doesn't curate a default desktop experience like Fedora does, but it's also a great place to enjoy some of this tech early, and in a very risk-free way thanks to declarative configuration and rollbacks. PipeWire has been effortless to set up (and impressively compatible, performance, and unobtrusive in its own right!) on NixOS for some time now.
A rolling release or a cutting edge kind of distro, even with regular releases, can be really nice if you're into exploring this stuff, like you say.
Example is iptables-nft. On every other distribution installing that is enough to make all applications use the nft version. In NixOS, you can easily change the environment path to iptables-nft, but any package that can modify rules won't be updated. And a package that updates rules is systemd. So attempting what is normally a 1 minute change is now recompiling every single package.
There, I suppose GuixSD is a stronger proposition than NixOS at the moment.