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Hardware buzz on Windows, but not Linux (lemmy.today)
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I am one of those people that gets very annoyed with moderate ~~buzzing generated by piezoelectric elements~~ coil whine and tends to just ignore it if I can. My win10 ltsc desktop with an rx6700xt was buzzing like a cicada bug and it was SO annoying, but I figured it was an issue with the hardware and moved on. (It's really loud, and is triggered by mouse movements and the invisible windows scheduler. Something to do with interrupts). Well I booted into my forgotten linux distro that I use for testing and it's gone now. I use this computer exclusively for fitgirl repacks and steam games but now I am seriously considering putting linux on my main drive since I don't have to listen to that fucking sound.

Adding this to the list of things windows sucks at xD

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[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 days ago

I had the same issue years ago when i still used windows 10 on old pc. But, unlike in your case, where buzz was coming out of case, for me, it was also caused by the mouse movement, but the buzz was coming out of speakers, so turning off speakers, muted the buzz. I dont know what exactly, but it was propably something with windows assuming mouse movement being an aux input. It was never a problem since i switched to linux.