It's pretty ironic to have problems with audio not recognizing headphones... on WINDOWS.

Multi-trillion (10^12) dollar company, btw.

(Both laptops are reasonably new.)

The "Legally Blonde" meme, the top text reads 'WIN11 WORK LAPTOP. You have consistently working headphones audio?' and the bottom text reads 'HALF-ASSED LINUX INSTALL AT HOME. What, like it’s hard?'
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[–] 158 points 6 months ago (23 children)

Linux audio issues were common during the transition to PulseAudio, but that was almost 20 years ago now.

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I was about to say... Maybe I've just been lucky, but I haven't had the slightest issue with Linux audio. Ever.

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    And they continued until the transition to Pipewire.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    pipewire is so cool! It's so easy to set it up to sling to snapcast!

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    [sobbing] I don't know what the fuck snapcast is, I just want sound to work!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It's a pretty easy setup for turning all of your Linux devices into speakers for one studio stream.
    Set up some raspberry pis, plug them into speakers around the house, hit a button on your phone, they're all playing synchronized music

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Agreed, it was the next step from pulseaudio. To say it wasnt problematic is incorrect, as it had many problems and needed a lot of manual intervention.

    Nowadays, pipewire appears alot more stable, even with the compatibility layers for when stuff uses pulseaudio.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    I've been using Linux as my main operating system since 2010 and can't recall having any audio issues. My desktop has 5 sound cards and they all work fine. I don't use bluethooth for audio, so I guess that makes things easier.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I guess you've just been lucky.

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    Hard to believe it's been that long already. Linux has come so far. I remember fighting with audio issues. The most frequent issue I remember having is not being able to have two different programs use the sound card at the same time. Haha. So no system sounds while listening to music.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Two programs not being able to use the sound card at the same time is what happens when you set a program to use an ALSA hw or plughw device instead of PulseAudio or PipeWire.

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