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Have you ever been disappointed with Linux? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Personally I haven't. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it's whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

During the early days of Pulse Audio. Sound sometimes would stop working for inexplicable reasons.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Before Pulse Audio sound on Linux was literally lame.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    ALSA works better than Pulse Audio. Fite me irl

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Sometimes I have to set audio to ALSA with protontricks in order for a game to launch or have sound. I think it has something to do with the number of audio channels I have. With other audio interfaces with only two channels it doesn't seem to be an issue but I thought my ALSA/JACK combo was solid but I also only played native games back then so I'm not sure if it would have been an issue then. Pulse took me a while too be comfortable with but for the most part I'm happy with it now. I held out for so long and waited for other audio producers to give it a green light before I switched.

    BTW, I'm not trying to fight you on this. Just sharing my experience with someone who understands the struggle.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Sound was literally dysfunctional in Linux on a lot of hardware in the 90s. In the mid 2000s I had a RedHat enthusiast tell me that was all in the past, about 20 minutes before we hit a nasty hard to fix sound configuration/performance problem with RedHat on our hardware... Our "sound guy" can make ALSA work on our product, but it's one of the more brittle parts of the system - anything changes he "has to get back with you..."

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