For me it's been nothing but problems. The primary reason is I'm probably doing things that (almost) nobody else is doing but I assume both countless people are and it should be working fine. Once I hook up some midi devices, want things to be recorded, run a synthesizer stack through pw-jack, expect the midi clock to go down the USB bus, etc, all kinds of interesting behavior starts happening. It even completely locked up my machine a few times. Like hard freeze. I had Audacity just nope right out. It somehow corrupted the local configuration and I had to blow it away to get it to start up again.

And then there's the whole new suite of programs you have to learn where their implementation is constantly in flux so the documentation isn't exactly accurate. pw-record for instance. That "--list-targets" option it tells you to use is long gone (that princess is now in the "wpctl status " castle). You gotta check the date of everything written online because the month it was written matters. It's still far from great.

I used an Amiga about 30 years ago to do similar things. Now that was something that genuinely just worked. People are still using it. That's how functional it was.

But like all these things, I should find the motivation to shutup the complaining and get to cracking on the code to make it suck less.

When it comes to linux and things are broken, your assumption on how many people have seen it and who is working on the section of code it's caused by is invariably an order of magnitude or two too high. That's why you can't find any fixes on the web. You're one the first to see it. Exciting, isn't it?