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 Most audio applications can use either ALSA, JACK or PulseAudio as a
 backend. PipeWire provides support for all 3 backends. Depending on how
-your distríbution has configured things this should just work automatically
+your distribution has configured things this should just work automatically
 or with the provided scripts shown below.
 
 PipeWire can use environment variables to control the behaviour of