Getting proper audio setup on Ubuntu 24.04
This setup was done on an HP EliteBook 840 with Intel Tiger Lake hardware, running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, but I used tips from Arch Wiki as well. So I presume most of it is transferable to other distributions.
Ubuntu ships with PipeWire and WirePlumber by default, which is a solid audio foundation—but getting microphone with noise suppression and sane device naming requires some manual tuning.