Indeed both are running... installed and running (not by my own intention)...
I have tried to remove each via pacman but failed due to dependency conflict
╭─exanime at calcifer in ⌁
╰─λ sudo pacman -R pipewire
[sudo] password for exanime:
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by krfb
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by lib32-pipewire
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by libtg_owt
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by obs-studio
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by telegram-desktop
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'libpipewire-0.3.so=0-64' required by wireplumber
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by xdg-desktop-portal
╭─exanime at calcifer in ⌁
╰─λ sudo pacman -R pulseaudio
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio' required by plasma-pa
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio' required by pulseaudio-alsa
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=15.0-1' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=15.0-1' required by pulseaudio-equalizer
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio' required by pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=15.0-1' required by pulseaudio-jack
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=15.0-1' required by pulseaudio-lirc
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=15.0-1' required by pulseaudio-rtp
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio' required by pulseaudio-support
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=15.0-1' required by pulseaudio-zeroconf
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio' required by replay-sorcery
I have even been trying to assess what GarudaLinux is going for here (which is the default and whether or not the objective is to really only have one or the other) but there is a ton of conflicting info about the subject
In Garuda Assistant, under System Components only Pulseaudio support is checked (ALSA support, Pipewire support and JACK support are unchecked)