• TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
    14·
    6 days ago

    i’m so confused whenever i see this, i’ve been using linux since 2012 and sound has always just worked? I can’t think of a single time I’ve had an audio problem that wasn’t damaged hardware

    • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      It depends. The old ALSA system was flaky from what I remember. Pipewire seems more stable, but can have issues with multiple devices but that might be more a bluetooth problem.

      I’ve also had constant audio problems in windows, including every update shuffling all my audio devices and making a random one default and switching to the wrong device when connecting a new one.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      Bluetooth. Like it works most of the time, but especially randomly the microphone does not work

  • meow@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    6 days ago

    I once had a problem with my sound, then i remembered that my headphones weren’t plugged in. That was the only time i had no sound in linux

      • Venat0r@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        I do sometimes, but sometimes it’s because my headphones are plugged into my monitor and I have 2 monitors and it sometimes chooses the wrong one and I don’t know how to disable the other one in the gui in mint and haven’t bothered to do it in command line yet 😅. Other times it’s because my monitor has very temperamental displayport and hdmi ports and it gets disconnected if I bump the desk, but that happens regardless of what operating system I’m using.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      6 days ago

      I was shocked when sound started coming out of my portable monitor via HDMI when I first installed Pop… I don’t need sound, I just want my dedicated server to run!

  • HorreC@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 days ago

    I spend more time dealing with my partners windows machine when it does an update getting their audio up and back to what it was, then I have with linux in 8 years (at least). And I did a major change from deb based into redhat base. And I dont even think its a bleeding edge distro issue, as I do run a Nobara system and that is based on fedora (which is still considered bleeding edge for the most part).

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    Funnily, I don’t have sound issues on pipewire (unless I turn on my excessively big easy effect default preset).

    But windows? Oh boy windows… Listening to something after a teams call? Garbled sound. Locking your session then going back? No more sound. Connect the same Bluetooth headphones as the rest of the week? Volume get muted. Press the volume button? Nothing. Press the volume button while sound is playing? Oh hey now it works

  • binarytobis@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    Recently my speakers have been switching left/right. I was physically swapping them for a while, now I try and ignore it. I’m sure there’s some eldritch linux magic I too new to know like alsamixer that will fix it.

  • phar@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    I had some issues in pre-2019 between alsa and pulse. I don’t think I have had any sound issues since then

    • Rose@slrpnk.net
      3·
      7 days ago

      Long ago, I had SoundBlaster Live! soundcard which was perfectly capable of mixing audio on hardware under ALSA, which in my mind meant that all of the userland sound daemon nonsense could go straight to hell for all I cared. Earlier, EsounD never worked right and no app supported it directly and the wrapper utility was a hassle when it even worked. Then came PulseAudio. I could get buuutttery smooth audio on direct ALSA or laggy barely working audio on Pulse. Absolute hog.

      Sure, nowadays the situation is better. But back in the day, for me, the answer to “why isn’t the sound working?” was usually “you tried to use anything but direct ALSA”.

      • phar@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        I have not made the switch to Linux in the days where I still had a dedicated sound card. But I had extremely similar circumstances without a dedicated sound card. So I definitely believe you

      • davidgro@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 days ago

        Funny. My experience was the exact opposite. Maybe it was bad defaults which I never managed to fix, but I could never get two apps to use sound at the same time, which meant until Pulse became the standard and fixed everything, it was always constant battles between aRts, ESD, and apps that used neither.