> Was Pipewire even on distros by the time they decided to "abuse the one API"?
No. Pipewire only arrived on the most unstable distros end of last year. It's in no way available for all, and not a common standard (yet). And you are right, wayland in general is not the norm yet. I'd even say it's likely to never replace X11 completely, given its shortcomings and X11's stability.
X11 is moribund. Part of why is because literally everyone who was working on it in a major way, possibly excepting Keith Packard, eventually considered it a dead end and jumped ship to Wayland.
YMMV but I've found both to work fine, with Wayland providing the advertised tear-free video experience that X never could. Granted, when I tried OBS about a year ago I had to resort to an X-session, and that worked as expected. Not that OBS works properly on Wayland, my own use for X - I think - is done.
Pipewire has been there for more than that, I've been using it for a few years now.
You might be mistaken with the audio part of it (that replaces Pulseaudio and Jack).
It was definitely available in distros like arch and gentoo.
Fedora as well when then switched to wayland by default.
More conservative distro might not have included it though, but they are on X11 by default so it's not needed in the first place.
No. Pipewire only arrived on the most unstable distros end of last year. It's in no way available for all, and not a common standard (yet). And you are right, wayland in general is not the norm yet. I'd even say it's likely to never replace X11 completely, given its shortcomings and X11's stability.
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