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...wasn't it supposed to be other way around? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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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.)

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[–] 158 points 5 months ago (3 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 5 months ago (1 child)

    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 5 months ago (4 children)

    And they continued until the transition to Pipewire.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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 5 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 5 months ago (3 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 5 months ago (1 child)

    I guess you've just been lucky.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Or you've just been unlucky.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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 5 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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