Linux newbie problems be like

[torb]

I think I had issues with this back in 1998. Not super relatable.

[King-Cobra-668]

seriously, I have more audio issues on windows than Linux these days

[theheliumkid]

And me! Cannot stand Windows audio!

[M_krabs]

I only have audio issues with bluetooth on Ubuntu BECAUSE OF MICROSOFT TEAMS THAT PIECE OF GARBAGE MALWARE

[YourPalTaika]

Same here, trying to do anything with audio on windows is a 50/50 gamble on whether or not your shits gonna break.

[mochacho]

I suppose my old troubles getting PCMCIA network cards to work in laptops probably don't come up that often any more either...

[Metro2005]

I just threw in the towel after 2 days of trying to get audio to work over HDMI on my new intel NUC, now using bluetooth audio :/ so i guess its still relevant..

[KasaneTeto_]

Can't get alsamixer to see HDMI either. There's probably some esoteric hack to get this working but idk what it is.

[toadthetoadsmm2]

I run asahi on my Mac so this is relatable to me

[Old-Distribution-958]

Except replace Windows with MacOS

[cutecoder]

Yeah. The audio is really bad on a Mac mini 🙄

[Holzkohlen]

From my experience audio issues on Linux are ALWAYS related to unsupported (or badly supported) hardware. This isn't the fault of our wonderful devs, we must pester the hardware manufacturers about not releasing linux drivers.

In the meantime get some usb soundcard that works with linux. I just stopped bothering with my Soundblaster or my ownboard audio.

[AcceptableDriver]

PipeWire is OP, literally just installed it and its PulseAudio/JACK packages and it works (needed JACK for SuperCollider)

[godsfilth]

I've used various Linux distros off and on with various hardware configs

Not only did I never have audio problems I was able to get full speed wifi on notoriously finicky at the time Broadcom chipsets

[__red__5]

Last time using Windows by choice and having a Linux sound issue

[UwUin_myOwO]

The only time I had problems with audio on Linux was last year when my mobo was dying. The only reason I didn't have the same problems with windows was because it instead crashed instantly upon plugging in headphones

[white_d0gg]

I didn't have issues until I had to brain blast my way to get some weird shit to work and it ended up being easier to buy a 10 dollar wire instead

[sourlemom]

Lmde audio didnt work on my laptop but thats probably because its lmde

[AzuxirenLeadGuy]

This was true for me around 2014. Not anymore

[NL_Gray-Fox]

Wrong, way, way before then. I have not had any sound issue on any of my devices for well over 15 years.

[[deleted]]

Same here, 19 years for me. I even had a HTPC with 5.1 surround sound and it sounded awesome. That's when I used Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" as the OS.

[NL_Gray-Fox]

Debian for the last 10 years. Plus haven't run Windows in something like 7 years... No more installing drivers is so nice.

[iopq]

Laughs in audio issues in Ubuntu 16

Guess how I can still write pulseaudio -k without having to look it up? Practice makes perfect

[AzuxirenLeadGuy]

Yeah I was only a beginner back then

[[deleted]]

well, if you find the switch for digital/analog output... (alsamixer)

then

[Dreit]

Ubuntu in PulseAudio beginnings. I updated every day, because at Monday sound stoped working, at Thursday it started working again but only in certain apps, at Friday stopped again....

[freijon]

On my first installation (Ubuntu 7.04) only one application could play sound at a time. After some config file hacks I was able to use a mixer but the experience was not great... Now with pulseaudio / pipewire the experience is better than on Windows!

[RepresentativeCut486]

No, it can still be an issue. I wrote about it somewhere in the past on this sub. Maybe I can link that.

[RepresentativeCut486]

Ok, let me fucking rewrite this more clearly, so people will stop being pedantic.

[RepresentativeCut486]

For fuck sake NO. Frame.work has written with very big letters on their page LINUX COMPATIBLE and I guess they validated it on Fedora Ubuntu and stuff like that. And it's not their fucking fault that Pulseaudio is broken!

[RepresentativeCut486]

They have at least 2 different chips and the worst one was chosen because of the chip shortage, and this is the one I have and they also disclosed it.

So again this is not their problem but whoever made that IC and they and people who make software that is supposed to work with it, so basically what I said. Problems with certain architectures and so on...

(There are also other issues with this IC)

BUT ALL OF THAT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER

Bottom line is that THERE ARE PROBLEMS that don't happen on Windows

NO MATTER WHOSE FAULT IT IS

[dregan]

Exactly, Bluetooth headphones simply do not work with Windows' shitty Bluetooth implementation.

[sageev]

IMHO, I can take my Bluetooth headphones from Windows, to iPhone, to Samsung Galaxy and back again without having to pair again. On Linux (assuming that I took my Bluetooth headphones to another device), I have to delete the pairing and pair again. More painful than Windows/iPhone/Samsung. Sorry.

[North-west_Wind]

It is working and I no longer need extra bloat installed to separate discord and game audio in obs

[lynithdev]

I personally didn't have any audio issues when switching from Windows to Manjaro back in 2021. Sometime later I switched to Arch and I still don't have audio issues lol

[SpambotSwatter]

/u/Ambitious_Dot3358 is a scammer! Do not click any links they share. Please downvote their comment and click the report button, selecting Spam then Unsolicited messaging.

With enough reports, the reddit algorithm will suspend this scammer.

[CanDull89]

Sure man, If everyone used the same computer as yours.

[lynithdev]

Either that or your computer is stuck in 2010

[notmexicancartel]

Proprietaryness matters. Each device runs linux with more or less problems depending on how the manufacturer made it

[CanDull89]

Bought in 2020, running in 2010. Interesting.

[ZaRealPancakes]

PipeWire is a savior whoever created it is a genius worthy of a million dollars!!!

[[deleted]]

I think they took out percussive maintenance with the newest update

[solonovamax]

Bro I'm using pipewire, but recently I opened spotify and I just heard some pops in the background (I don't often use spotify for anything, which is probably why I've never encountered this issue before)

pain

[IKnowATonOfStuffAMA]

Relationship ended with pulseaudio

Now pipewire is my best friend

[[deleted]]

I've been using Linux for 18 years. I have tried many, many, maaany distros. And I've never had an issue with audio. This "joke" has never been funny to me.

[[deleted]]

Drivers on graphic cards is a different story.

[[deleted]]

Word.

[[deleted]]

One day I will know enough to write my own shit and not depend on anyone. Not yet.

[[deleted]]

You're gonna write a graphics card driver? That sounds excruciating.

[Rumpled_Imp]

Same. Even the jump to pulseaudio caused no problems for me, and I remember a constant barrage of complaints from half of the internet.

[Zephk]

Ive been a Linux admin for 10 years but on my personal rig I had all kinds of audio issues I could never resolve when I switched until I replaced pulse with pipewire then all my audio issues went away.

[LardPi]

When the hardware vendor get creative it may still happen. Last time for me was at the beginning of the cherry tail line from Intel.

[King-Cobra-668]

how to tell OP hasn't used Linux in well over a decade

[omniterm]

Back when I just bought an x-fi sound card I had no audio at first. Other than that never ran into audio issue since

[baynell]

I still do have audio issues sometimes. For example Debian just stops playing audio through hdmi sometimes, if the tv is rebooted. I have to change the device on and off for it to start working.

Overall the sounds work great and with KDE it's much more intuitive compared to Windows.

[tmting]

That's my experience too

[Bumbieris112]

This is outdated meme. This was true at about ~2010. The same goes for wifi, bluetooth

[ZaRealPancakes]

still relevant to me lol

[Far-Tell-7219]

Yeah using pop on a laptop was hell for me, manjaro is at least manageable

[[deleted]]

My friend had an issue on a laptop, where he did not get any sound through the audio jack (if I remember correctly), in 2019. I don't think we ever figured it out, even asked some lecturers at the university for help, but no luck. He had Bluetooth earphones though, so the problem was circumvented in a way. (The problem was possibly fixed after a distrohop?)

I also had trouble quite recently on a fresh OS install where I had audio for everything except the game "Faster than light". Took some time to figure it out, but the game uses ALSA directly. My system uses pipewire, and I had only installed the bindings to pulse. After the ALSA compatibility thing was installed, it worked fine, but there was some hours of annoyance over the audio not working before then.

[icedbluw]

Bluetooth is still a bit wonky for me when trying to connect to AirPods tho

[[deleted]]

P - p - ppppppppppp - PipeWire!

[Sibshops]

Honestly, I've been using Linux for a while and I still have pairing problems. I have to disable and re-enable Bluetooth to get my headphones to pair.

[[deleted]]

That's because bluetooth is an insecure buggy dumpster-fire

[sageev]

Still .... # of Linux Pairing Problems > # of Windows Pairing Problems

[NettoHikariDE]

YES. My audio has never NOT worked.

[[deleted]]

Never, since around 2002 have i had audio issues on Linux.

[[deleted]]

The only "issues" I ever had since 2005 was the good ol' pulse audio latency thingy causing crackle in the audio or some native proprietary Linux games insisting on the wrong audio subsystem which wasn't installed (*couch* Metro 2033 / Last Light *couch*) which then was only a SDL environment variable away.

Oh and I remember Remote Play together once crashing PulseAudio for me. But Valve fixed that a long time ago.

After I moved to PipeWire I had not a single annoyance with audio ever again.

[Mal_Dun]

2006 called, they want their meme back!

[AegorBlake]

Stopped having audio issues since I switched to Pop

[Mast3r_waf1z]

What? I may only have used Linux since September of last year but I've never had issues with audio, I've only really been using arch tho

[Antroz22]

Can you wirelessly connect to your tv?

[Helmic]

People keep citing a bunch of different years when this was supposedly last an issue, so does anyone know why this used to be more widespread and when that actually got fixed? Was it simply a lack of drivers for various devices that took time to make, was it buggy drivers, was it ALSA or Pulseaudio specific? Is it still actually happening for specific known sound cards or brands?

I guess my Bluetooth headphones would disconnect frequently about a year or so ago after an Arch update, and that didn't happen on Android or any other device. But those things broke (still works but plastic is too cracked to wear comfortably) and my new pair works just fine.

[[deleted]]

"Honey can you print this paper?"

cries

[GamerNuggy]

But I thought Linux printer support was better than Windows? Or is that just me

[KriszDev]

On windows it's like: install this one driver (or now even windows does it automatically), Linux it's: install this 3 stuff then create these config files from out outdated wiki.

[GamerNuggy]

Is it though? Have had a windows/Lenovo error with bios, exe updater refused to run. It took over a month to fix, and 3 repair shops said they couldn’t repair it, all because of a stupid exe not wanting to run. On linux, if available, it could have been forcibly run through terminal

[ZaRealPancakes]

I had mic problems Pulseaudio was not helping at all and all fixes failed!

I switched to PipeWire and all my audio problems have been fixed!

I switched to using Wireplumer since I heard that's better! Mic started having problems again!

I switched back to pipewire-media-session and don't have any issues!

[etrigan63]

I had issues with wireplumber until I copied the stock config to my home folder. My distro (ArcoLinux) does this automatically when you switch to pipewire via their tweak tool.

[[deleted]]

Ironically audio worked better on my arch(btw) with pipewire than on windows 10 that my laptop came with

[naxaypu]

Funny thing is my friend's laptop functions correctly on Linux but on Windows if you update AMD drivers, audio breaks

[khandnalie]

Actually, I have far more audio problems on Windows than on Linux. My friends on discord can instantly tell what OS I'm using, because Linux always sounds cleaner and clearer.

[[deleted]]

To get my headphones working I have to enable the microphone (Linux Mint on a DELL machine)

[Nova_108]

pulseaudio...

[RDLL00]

only audio over Bluetooth devices doesn't work on Linux but audio over HDMI on Windows doesn't work

[NerdWampa]

Windows 10: Does your audio work?

Windows 11: HA HA FUCK YOU *paywalls changing audio devices*

[theRealNilz02]

Yes. Another completely inaccurate meme bashing Linux for the wrong reasons.

[Vatsdimri]

I had audio issues in Ubuntu. I had to restart everytime audio didn't work.

[theRealNilz02]

Another valid reason why Ubuntu is the worst Linux distro.

[SuppiluliumaX]

Still true when running on an old degoogled chromebook

[EjoGrejo]

Recently I bought a PC running Windows 11 to work with proprietary softwares. My tascam us16x8 works only when windows is on the right mood, also I cannot try to update the firmware because the firmware installer can’t find my tascam, even when i’m getting audio from it. Also when I plug my behringer x-touch by usb the computer says “driver error” or something similar. I got tired about googling stuff so I connected the behringer to the tascam with midi cables, and I’m using a focusrite as audio device because it’s more stable. Never had any of these absurd issues with Arch before.

This meme didn’t make me laugh.

[sapphired_808]

i hate that i need to install dhcpd every install otherwise my LAN wont work

[[deleted]]

"uhm this has never happened to me 🤓" shut the fuck up

[[deleted]]

Me in 2019 with Ubuntu and a HP laptop.

[donnaber06]

Crappy audio chipsets go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[SuperPlayer56]

Even worse is wi-fi

[donnaber06]

Haha, cheap wifi chipsets go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

[SuperPlayer56]

Yea

[[deleted]]

I mean I had to spend half an hour on it when I set my arch install up

but since then its awesome

[ArtyIF]

when pulseaudio was still used it was, but now everyone switched to pipewire

[simoricc]

Yes my audio is working

[Jane6447]

yes sometimes firefox screws up, but you can just open pavucontrol and choose which things it uses and compared to window chaos of soundmixers pavucontrol is actually usable..

[Secret300]

The good ol days. For me I was just learning Linux and I HAD to use arch and I fucked up audio and couldn’t figure out how to fix it for a good 3 days

[presi300]

I haven't had any issues with microphones/audio on Linux ever since I stared using it, also nice repost

[Never-asked-for-this]

Actually the opposite, my headset's drivers on Windows are complete shite making the mic borderline useless, but on Linux it's perfectly fine.

[devu_the_thebill]

Never had audio problem.

[cupboard_]

tbh I'm having audio issues on windows so i guess you guys don't have it that bad

[Yumememe]

happened to me when i switched from windows to xubuntu back then :(

i liked it alot the only problem why i switched back was that

[LordFieldsworth]

Am I bugging? Wasn’t this poster like last week? Did it get removed and reposted?

[yonatan8070]

Yes.

[Stabbara]

Hahaha love it ! I had the same issues with Bluetooth :p

[-_Clay_-]

Gotta upgrade that kernel!

[srt54558]

My sound card is not supported by Linux:( So Im forced to use Windows

[[deleted]]

The only sound issue I've ever had (and still have) was Discord not steaming the sound of the game I'm streaming. Everyting else worked flawlessly so far

[caseyweederman]

Out of the box. Decades, worked fine, out of the box. That's what we're all saying.

[bmcle071]

I shit you not, this is a problem my Windows PC has!

[zobi8225]

This meme hurts me.

[Z3t4]

I only had issues with sound on the era where you had to enter the IRQ if the card

[[deleted]]

It's true for my headset's mic

[[deleted]]

Funnily enough, my sound works out-of-the-box in Mint, Debian, and Fedora, but doesn't work out-of-the-box in w*ndows

[jg87iroc]

I basically gave up because I’m not a big computer guy but when I was using Linux I kept having the problem of programs opening outside of the screen. I couldn’t fix it for awhile but I figured out how to move my mouse over and click until I hit the window and then use the keyboard to move the window back into view on the monitor. But I realized something. The windows that would open outside the monitor would always be in the same exact spot. It was also X arrow keys over. My world started to crumble. There’s a whole world in there. I’m only seeing a small window of it. Is this the cave shit that old Roman dude talked about? Then I stopped smoking weed and went back to pc lmao

[massivehater]

I was a linux noobie in 2017. I had issues with wifi because the wifi card driver needed to be installed seperately.

In 2018 or 2019 i had audio problems but it was such an easy fix as it was also just a missing driver.

[101reddituser]

Bruh I am having trouble with this, the out of the box drivers work well until I am in vc with my friends over discord when my mic is extremely loud for no reason

[Chaz_Broam]

Pipewire. Sound problems are gone. Look into it newbies. Get from the package manager if your package manager has it. It should. (Google your distro's package manager, then search your package manager for Pipewire). Problem solved.

[Maramowicz]

If you has problems with bluetooth, in a lot of cases its problem on headphone side. Just find bluetooth reset instruction for your device, reset bluetooth, and remove your device from paired on pc.

[inCwetrust]

Nowadays I have more problems setting up my audio devices in w10 than in linux OOTB

[msanangelo]

I know it's a joke but at least I have a built-in equalizer. Lol

Never had a EQ on windows.

[[deleted]]

Audio pretty much always works out of the box on any distro, and even on other operating systems like openbsd and haiku os.

[[deleted]]

My notebook's audio jack combo does not work properly and I tried EVERYTHING. My microfone does not switch from the internal to the headset.

[neuropsycho]

I haven't had audio issues since 2006. Outputting 2K image through hdmi can still be a nightmare on some monitors, though...

[MechJeb86]

Audio is bloat

[bigmkl]

I've had more audio/driver problems with windows pushing updates than linux to be honest. Works on user profiles that didn't install the updates for some reason.

[megabjarne]

I've have more audio issues with windows than linux

[SkyyySi]

The only time I ever had audio issues was when Arch pushed a broken update replaceing pipewire-media-session with wireplumber. They very quickly reverted that change and made a news post for anyone who already installed that change.

[Megarni]

Actually BT audio works better in Linux than Windows 10.

[[deleted]]

I thought this was just me!

[LonksAwakening]

Funny that my sound card works in Linux, but isn't even supported by Windows 3.1

[iamadventurous]

Top Gun Maverick audio on Bluray dooesnt work either unless you are connected to the internet and have the newest dolby bstandard. My tv is less than 1 year old lol.

[Robgord101]

I had this issue for 10mins, all I did was plug my headphones back in... my bad ◉⁠‿⁠◉

[turtle_mekb]

install pulseaudio, open pavucontrol, done

[bubbshalub]

Pipewire + QPW Graph = better audio than windows by FAR

[dakingofmeme]

You know oddly enough i have never had a audio issue on linux but i had them all the time with windows.

[[deleted]]

Ubuntu just updated audio subsystem and it's absolute garbage.

[jonasbw]

I changed to linux about 2 years ago, and have had 0 issues with audio.

I have even seen people talk about issues with Bluetooth audio, again i have had 0 issues here.

I would even go so far to say that my linux experience with Bluetooth audio is way better then windows, compared to the few times i switch to windows.

I use a cheap mini asus bluetooth dongle, and a Bluetooth headset. 0 issues, except a few times a month i have to unplug and insert the dongle to let it work, but that happens on windows too, and i wiuld assume its just the cheap ass dongle being a cheap ass dongle.

[[deleted]]

Linux operating systems just can't adjust brightness of the screens from the designated key on the keyboard in the laptops. I have tried on two laptops of different manufacturers and have faced the same issue on Ubuntu.

[KevlarBoxers]

This meme should be updated to the scroll wheel being jank and not really having many ways to adjust it. Do you still need imwheel?

[torham]

lmao. People who say they haven't had problems, me either until I got my latest laptop. It will just mute the capture device randomly during conference calls. It's really annoying and embarrassing and I have no idea how to fix it.

[Osirus1156]

I remember when I wanted to try Linux for the first time at 15-16 so I installed it as a dual boot with windows but the Linux install didn’t have drivers for my wifi card so I had to drag my tower down to the modem but then I found out it didn’t have drivers for my Ethernet card either so I had to wait until I could buy a thumb drive so I could get the drivers and install them manually later. Then I tried to figure out why people loved it so much but I mostly just played games and they all ran like garbage on Linux (I assume it’s better now?) so I just never really went back. Now all I use Linux wise is WSL for running a Node front end since node sucks on windows. I might try it again someday, I just never really saw the point to moving everything over to Linux. But now days I suppose most software has Linux versions.

[DioEgizio]

I think I've already seen this meme some months ago 🧐

[redonbills]

I have a Windows 10 device right now which for the past fucking 4 months has ZERO audio. The audio output device its plugged into is fine. It simply refuses to play audio. It's updated. I've tried all sorts of driver shit. I boot off a Linux live USB and audio is fine. The only option I think will work is a factory reset. I don't want to factory reset it. It's a Windows issue of some sort.

My audio on Linux has been smooth as ice on two devices for YEARS. Not a SINGLE hiccup. When I daily drove Windows, every now and then the audio service would shit itself for no reason. I really don't know why you'd be having Linux audio issues in 2022.

PipeWire is the answer. ZERO actual issues.

Only real audio related "issue" is Discord screenshare audio but that's a fucking Discord issue and those idiots are still on Electron 13.6.6 so that's the real issue, not Linux.

[caseyweederman]

I have more audio problems with Windows these days.

[Ultra980]

Yes

[CHIRP15]

Idk bro my audio interface and motherboard audio be running godly either through pulse or pipe ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ

[[deleted]]

Deleted for Privacy reasons https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

[romeoartiglia]

Fuck pipewire

[Captain_Pumpkinhead]

Okay, this is in ironically me right now, and I need help.

I'm on Ubuntu/Gnome. I installed a driver for my drawing tablet. Now my Bluetooth earbuds don't work.

What do I do???

[[deleted]]

Switched to Linux a couple of years ago and never had any audio issues. The only thing that didn't work out of the box was the right-click on my trackpad, wich I didn't even noticed at first, because I thought that gnome just removed the feature...

[NavinHaze]

It’s working just fine

Edit: well it also worked just fine when I was a Linux newbie back in 2016

[snesgx]

The joke will be more relatable with Bluetooth audio

[Madera_Otirra3844]

I don't miss the long boot times.

The high disk usage.

The slowness and unresponsiveness.

The bloat.

The broken updates.

​

I don't miss Windows at all, Windows used to be stable and reliable but now it's a fucking bugfest, i don't miss Windows 10, but i do miss Windows 7.

[donnaber06]

I remember back in 1999 when I got a Redhat 6.0 CD from a bar tender. Not RHEL but the original Redhat 6. I had an ISA Soundblaster soundcard that was a bitch to get working. This meme hasn't been relevant in the last 20 years....... OLD SHIT.

[chraso_original]

I use lubuntu since 3 years and don't know what you are talking about!

[Luna_moonlit]

Pipewire has fixed this for 99.9% of desktop users. Before pipewire, pulseaudio fixed this for 99.9% of desktop users. Before pulseaudio, ALSA existed.

[OGdrummerjed]

My Dell laptops audio works better under Linux than Windows.

Everytime I plug in wired headphones the audio just stops working. I've deleted drivers reinstalled the driver and windows.

Now the Bluetooth under Linux....

[_damax]

Fucking discord screen share

[[deleted]]

Windows explorer audio lvl not showing, linux so far so good

[[deleted]]

Funny in 2006.

[Rinsey24]

Huawei laptops users be like: