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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.)
i'm just amazed that under w10 i was able to change my audio output device without issues meanwhile in w11 after digging into the taskbar you pick an audio output and IT DOESNT DO SHIT IT DOESNT CHANGE AT ALL YOU HAVE TO CHANGE IT BACK AND FORTH UNTIL THE SPIRIT OF WINDOWS ELEVEN DECIDES YOU ARE WORTHY
Linux: "I am the non-janky OS now!"
Hot take: There is not now, nor has there ever been, a non-janky OS.
Some Linux distributions are absolutely less janky than Windows at the moment, though, absolutely.
I haven't used a mac in a few years, but it was pretty jank-free the last time I tried it, but I'm certain the situation there has gotten worse.
Nah I'm on Sequoia on a maybe 3 or 4 year old MBP and it's still smooth as silk for me
I cannot get Linux mint Bluetooth to work anymore even with a good tp link dongle off my desktop. It skips or hiccups every minute.
I feel like it didn't do this a few months ago...not one thing I've done has fixed, and no one can help me. π€
I've had this issue with my old Bluetooth buds because their batteries were dying. My new buds don't have any issues and it's on the same 2010 laptop running mint with the same Bluetooth adapter, maybe that's what's happening to you?
Its actually to connect to a Bluetooth amp thats like 2ft away. Its a shared amp, friends PC is wired to it and I use BT in it. It never has BT issues with any other device, only my desktop. And I've tried 3 dongles. And did all the pipewire pulse stuff everyone said to. Nothing. Imagine a CD skip every minute or so, is what it does.
Little problems like this are what makes me hesitate from switching full time.
Well if I'm fair, everything else has been an absolute joy and made me love computers again. So don't let my issue stop you!!
I absolutely can do everything faster and better on my Linux desktop than I ever could with windows, and I love learning, so that's a big plus.
There are far more things I care about other than my Bluetooth issue. Wires exist, its not a big deal to plug in. I do wish it worked, but I'm sure I'll fix it someday.
This is also my experience with the xbox wireless adapter.
Xow third party drivers tell you exactly what is happening or not happening.
Windows help page: whatever the issue, reinstall the drivers and hope that fixed it after a restart. Not a single way to diagnose.
Linux audio issues were common during the transition to PulseAudio, but that was almost 20 years ago now.
I was about to say... Maybe I've just been lucky, but I haven't had the slightest issue with Linux audio. Ever.
The fun part about windows is you donβt know if itβs breaking because of the coke code from the 80βs or the vibe code from the β20s.
First I tried Ubuntu. Then I tried Mint.
Two years later, still on Mint. It works, it doesn't spy on me, I'm good.
Work requires Ubuntu. Still with Kubuntu. Works, doesn't spy on me.
Brothers.
Debian, both at work and home.
Kids, you're doing alright.
btw, Debian seems to be leaking maintainers and we need to do something about it, before a hostile takeover occurs.
Any source for this?
This was what I was going off of.
https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/debian-linux-is-slowly-bleeding:6
There's also this now that I look into it, which you can base your own thoughts upon.
Thanks for the links!
I've been having to lean on my (now deactivated due to declining upgrade) win10 install to get around a couple games anticheat, for games I can play solo. Wild.
The amount of shit that "just (doesn't) works" is astounding after having had to do nothing more than reboot to fix something busted for years since I switched to mint.
right now the only thing keeping me on linux is fortnite and it's not even that fun but my buddies wanna play w me
PipeWire (written by Wim Taymans) did a lot of good for the Linux distro ecosystem when it comes to audio.
I remember the times before pipewire, not that fun.
Yet more fun than using microslops slop
Β Yeah, but does your half-assed linux install come with the incredibly useful NoPilot? Huh?
Checkmate, linux nerds!
does your half-assed linux install come with the incredibly useful NoPilot?
Nope. If for some incredibly bonkers reason I actually wanted to use it, I'd have to actually -- gasp! -- go to a website and talk to it through a website interface, rather than an interface directly integrated into every goddamn app on my own computer. That's like ... two, maybe even three extra clicks!
(Seriously, though. If for some reason I wanted to talk to a chatbot, I could do that on the chatbot's website. Why do I need it to be integrated into fucking Notepad?)
We spent a lot of money on this chatbot. You should talk to it. Yes, in Notepad as well!
Why do I need it to be integrated into fucking Notepad?
The rate at which every security practice is being torn down for the sake of clankers is giving me suicidal tendencies. Surely you will not regret giving the token-based randomness machine root access!
On Windows audio cuts out every so often.
Also an update broke a driver a bit ago and I had to edit the registry to fix it.
Linux is my comfort OS, everything just works.
Linux is my comfort OS, everything just works.
This exactly!
People who remember trying Linux 20 years ago look at me like I'm crazy. But Linux is so cozy, now!
When you want to route your audio a certain way (letβs say audio recording/production or such)
Windows: oh sure, you just gotta download a shitty proprietary driver/program, get that to talk to your daw and from there on itβsβ¦letβs hope it does what you wanna do.
Linux: You want routing options? Have some β¦(ALL the options)
My "win11" work laptop that used to have win10: "you guys can produce audio?"
What does this mean? I've never had this problem on windows...
On Windows 10, it is not possible to have different audio volumes for left and right. The control exists in the UI but does not work, both channels move in sync when you change them.
On mine I can also use different outputs at the same time, so I can for example have a video playing through speakers while game audio plays through my headphones. ... I haven't really taken advantage of it, but it is pretty neat.
To be fair, a lot of bluetooth headphone problems i had on my work laptop was just microsoft teams.
Linux revoked my mic permissions in the middle of a call today, on Google Meet. Happened before on Zoom.
I have not root-caused it to see if there was flaky hardware or what.
Ok, this prompted me to root-cause the issue. A bad cable between laptop and USB dock seems most likely. Hardware issue, not Linux!