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PipeWire has worked very well for me both as a drop-in replacement for PulseAudio and to enable screen sharing on Wayland.

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It also worked as drop in replacement for PulseAudio for me, except all my audio now had stutters and pops. I ended up going back to Pulse.

I got suggestions that I could go tweak buffer sizes stuff in a config file somewhere, but for my simple desktop use case I'd rather my audio just sounds right out of the box.

Hopefully this sort of thing gets straightened out, because having to muck with config files to make my sound server actually work is like going back to working directly with ALSA or OSS.

I had a couple little issues as well when I switched over a couple months ago, but they just fell away over the ensuing weeks of updates until there's nothing left at the moment. Give it another try sometime soon.

I can confirm that a issue causing my audio to completely drop at random points resolved about 1 month ago and now everything works perfectly.

FWIW I had issues with it on debian 10, until I built and installed it from master. It was a bit smoother on debian 11 but I couldn't get bluetooth to work.

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