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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?
It got a lot better in the last 5-10 years
But having functional audio in all applications was quite an archivement before that
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.
My primary issues on Linux have been wifi and GPU drivers. Wifi is fine these days, but trying to get actual 3D rendering to work still is a major headache.
3D rendering is the one thing Nvidia does better on Linux, I still do not understand why AMD makes it so difficult to access productivity features of their cards.
my front audio ports don't work and i have no idea if it's a hardware or software issue so i just don't bother with them
edit: fixed it by changing front port audio mode from HD audio to ac97 in bios settings
Congrats on fixing your audio.
I had that exact problem and fixed it by changing the audio mode from hd audio to ac97 in the bios settings. Apparently linux doesnt like realteks hd audio
i'll try that, although im not sure what options my uefi (asrock) has so i should probably search it up.
edit: thanks! it works, the option was under Advanced -> Onboard Devices or Onboard Configuration, something like that (though pavu control crashed a bit but maybe im just not familiar with having multiple audio devices)
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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.
Lot of issues with sound cards in the past. Also screw creative.
In the beginning there was oss, and then there was alsa. In the alsa days it was easy to get any given thing to work, but sometimes it was hard to make two separate things work at the same time.
Pulseaudio fixed this, but it took a long time, distros didn't start adopting it until 2008 or so, and back then it wasn't all that solid.
The meme makes no sense now that we have pipewire, but it'd have been fair between 1998 and 2009, depending on your configuration and usage case.
to be fair it does still make sense with lower-level distros like arch. usually it is as simple as installing pipewire + wireplumber or whatever, but that sometimes doesn't work out of the box and there are also other ways to do audio
Sound has always worked for me UNLESS I'm using with some niche desktop.