My first experience with switching to Linux a few years ago was on an outdated, at the time, ~$400 HP laptop. Switching from Windows 10 to EndeavourOS, and everything just worked, including audio.

In fact, it still works great whenever I turn it on like a few times a year.

I'm going to tempt fate here, you ready?

This hasn't happened to me since pulseaudio

No, that bit's funny. I mean the running joke about Linux audio being bad.

My god, there's so many comments

Now run it on a pi zero

I've had a bunch of audio issues crop up for me as well, after upgrading to Pop 24.04 and the new cosmic DE. I used to have keyboard shortcuts that would reliabily switch from headphones to speakers, but those are hit or miss now. And when they miss, I have to go all the way into into alsamixer and unmute things until it works again. Which begs the question, why can't the normal audio settings UI do everything alsamixer can? Alsamixer isn't complicated, by any stretch. Literally just lets you adjust the volume of all the things on a particular audio card, and mute/unmute.

exactly this

ty, noted.

Oh. To be fair, the PulseAudio days started off REALLY shit and JACK/ALSA had the limitations of "locking" an audio device to a specific process/application, so it used to be much rougher.

Ever since pipewire came along, it's been really solid.

I have a python script that take screenshots using pipewire so, I concur...

Never buy anything HP

Arch

Apart from the occasional 100% VOLUME Noise Bang that I get into my Headphones (disregarding the volume I have set), pipewire works pretty well, consistently.

You can put it in a script.

JamesDSP does most of what Easyeffects does with lower performance penalties.

More likely to have broken things though. I‘d recommend an Ubuntu LTS distro for issues like this.

That can have several reasons. Workarounds typically are:

• turn off wifi
• turn off powersaving for Bluetooth and or Wifi
• try increasing buffer sizes (increases latency as well)
• use a different bluetooth headphone or speaker
• use wired headphones or speakers
• try a different distro based on Ubuntu LTS (Mint, Pop, etc)

Find out what Bluetooth or wifi chipset you have. Then research and try various things.

How long did it take to work?

I use ethernet for everything, so even now I don't use WiFi. I only figured out it worked because my internet was out a few months later and needed to connect to a hotspot, and was pleasantly surprised that it was not crashing. I also don't really mess with RGB or bluetooth, so I cant really comment on those either. The motherboard itself always worked, it was just the integrated chips (it was new wifi 7 chip) that I wasn't actually using anyway. It may have been fixed in days, weeks... who knows, I wasnt testing it.

tl;dr - sorry, I don't have a good answer. The board always "worked" for my use case.

I've never had audio problems on Linux. Wtf are you guys doing x)

After a pipewire update I can half-reliably trigger a segfault of wireplumber with opening or closing lid of my laptop in specific way. I presume it's hardware issue, though