This might be a dumb question, but why are so many people saying they have sound issues? Did I just get lucky with the pc’s I have run Linux on and never have sound problems?
I think it’s just old tribal knowledge that people have turned into a meme at this point, just like people thinking all versions of Linux are so arcane and obtuse, you need to be a master programmer or hacker to be able to make it run without crashing. When I was first starting out with it, around 2009, I remember having somewhat regular issues with my sound and my wifi just randomly deciding I was unworthy of either sound or wireless internet access. That was across distros when I was initially checking things out, as well as across releases of the same distro once I (mostly) settled down.
These days, I can’t remember the last time I had such problems that weren’t either the result of a specific bug that was shortly fixed, or the fallout of something stupid I did myself while tinkering with something and not paying enough attention.
Tbh?
I just set up Bazzite on my PC and it was the first time i had (some) sound issues too.
Mostly related to my pcie soundcard, but my Mainboard aux ports aren’t working either.
I think it’s driver related, just to many different vendors.
So the general missing driver thing. We do not have enough users, so companies don’t make drivers and we have to hope the community makes open source ones.
It really is a spiral. Well we just hope that every tech interested person will switch to linux and deal with the not so easy parts to try and get enough people so big corpo gets interested.
This might be a dumb question, but why are so many people saying they have sound issues? Did I just get lucky with the pc’s I have run Linux on and never have sound problems?
I think it’s just old tribal knowledge that people have turned into a meme at this point, just like people thinking all versions of Linux are so arcane and obtuse, you need to be a master programmer or hacker to be able to make it run without crashing. When I was first starting out with it, around 2009, I remember having somewhat regular issues with my sound and my wifi just randomly deciding I was unworthy of either sound or wireless internet access. That was across distros when I was initially checking things out, as well as across releases of the same distro once I (mostly) settled down.
These days, I can’t remember the last time I had such problems that weren’t either the result of a specific bug that was shortly fixed, or the fallout of something stupid I did myself while tinkering with something and not paying enough attention.
Lot of issues with sound cards in the past. Also screw creative.
It got a lot better in the last 5-10 years
But having functional audio in all applications was quite an archivement before that
Tbh? I just set up Bazzite on my PC and it was the first time i had (some) sound issues too. Mostly related to my pcie soundcard, but my Mainboard aux ports aren’t working either. I think it’s driver related, just to many different vendors.
So the general missing driver thing. We do not have enough users, so companies don’t make drivers and we have to hope the community makes open source ones.
It really is a spiral. Well we just hope that every tech interested person will switch to linux and deal with the not so easy parts to try and get enough people so big corpo gets interested.