• rickdg@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    If only the Linux desktop stopped getting offended when it’s not treated like a server and has to shut down. “Wait, you had audio settings that I was supposed to remember? Cool story bro…”

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      12 hours ago

      I had this TV box that came with windows on it. After booting I had to turn up the volume and click away a noise warning.

      With Linux no more trouble 🐧

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        If you would like to address an audio issue, I’ll gladly hijack the thread.

        Linux mint, occasionally my audio starts crackling. Only fix is to open terminal and run pulseaudio -k.

        Happens maybe twice a day with my system.

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          That can happen when there’s a mismatch between the sample rate your audio device expects and what it receives. One way to fix this is to force the system to only allow one sample rate. I forget which files need to be edited for this, perhaps someone else will know, but you have a list of accepted and fallback sample rates, and you need to delete all except one.

          I can’t say that it will solve your specific issue, but it solved mine and I had the same symptoms.

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            Pipewire is standard in Mint these days. It borked my installation, though, when I tried to upgrade with Pipewire already installed.

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        12 hours ago

        I find people complaining about every distro. The thing is, every operating system sucks. The good thing about Linux is how that becomes your fault.

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          12 hours ago

          I mean I was asking about your complaint. Never heard of a Linux desktop that needs to be treated like a server before

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          It can be your fault, but if the distro is supposed to be easy and you haven’t messed with its internals, it’s probably the distro’s fault.

          My #1 priority when choosing a distro was that it’s widely used and easy, because I don’t want to deal with that exact kind of shit.

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            8 hours ago

            Ultimately it’s all open source, you can make your own distro. If something doesn’t work, fork it and fix it yourself. That’s the beauty of Linux, with all that’s good and bad about it.

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          12 hours ago

          Plenty of Linux things that aren’t the users fault

          See the arch Linux grub incident

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            Good to note this example is from 2022-08-30. Despite its “reputation” among some, Arch doesn’t break that often by itself.

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              yeah, i’ve been running arch for a couple of years now and the only time something broke was when the computer died in the middle of updating