CentOS follows Fedora into the trashcan

Having raised issues about Fedora to its "support forum" and been told that Fedora is likely not for me because I am not fond of its machine-gun release and end-of-lifing schedules, I was told to look at CentOS with its supposedly more conservative releases. Ha-ha!

No sound. Yes, you read it right: no sound from a modern laptop with the latest CentOS Stream 9. The sound device is not detected (it is a very common Realtek). Bizarre? Yes. Any solutions? None. Only some attempts by users to solve it, here and there. And now I learn that even pulsaudio monstrocity was not bad enough: CentOS now uses some piece of trash called PipeWire. WTF is it? Another malware layer above ALSA? Hell knows, but it just does not work no matter what. When will this madness end?

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