A few weeks ago, before my Ubuntu Studio 20.04 + KX Studio beastie died -- it was an 11-year-old laptop that finally got knocked off of a table -- I tried Pipewire and completely messed up the system. Prior to that I had Cadence nicely integrating ALSA, PulseAudio, and JACK. At least, it seemed to be okay. I'm not much of an expert, but it was really easy to route various sources and sinks with Catia and Claudia, from within the Cadence "Tools" tab.

Now I've got a brand new System76 running Pop!_OS. I've added some of the Ubuntu Studio and KX Studio applications to it, but I've been afraid to try Pipewire again. I haven't even managed to get Cadence working like I had previously.

So, is there a "For Dummies" guide that would apply to Pop!_OS?