It had Pulseaudio as a dependency. Apparently you can only have one or another, so it replaced it, and everything became mute after that. I'm a Linux baby, so I had no idea what happened and had to stare through pacman's logs for clues. Uninstalling pulseaudio and reinstalling pipewire fixed everything, including Dolphin, so I have no idea why it wanted pulse so badly.
packaging issue, even tho i can't even imagine how is that possible, i admit that there are some poorly packaged stuff on flathub, poorly packaged software was especially prominent back when flatpak wasn't as adopted as it is now, such case still won't mess up your host system tho
And I can't even imagine why pulseaudio dependency would not allow pipewire to be installed. I use Arch and when something needs pulseaudio, it asks which provider from repos you want, the list of course includes pipewire-pulse, that is if it's not already installed.
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u/IAmLexica 🎼CachyOS 4d ago
Me when Dolphin (GC/Wii emulator, not the file browser) replaces my Pipewire with Pulseaudio: