I was about to say... Maybe I've just been lucky, but I haven't had the slightest issue with Linux audio. Ever.

And they continued until the transition to Pipewire.

Hard to believe it's been that long already. Linux has come so far. I remember fighting with audio issues. The most frequent issue I remember having is not being able to have two different programs use the sound card at the same time. Haha. So no system sounds while listening to music.

I remember the times before pipewire, not that fun.

Yet more fun than using microslops slop

I will never forgive him and Fedora for rolling it out when it was a half-baked piece of shit though.

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?)

As someone that is using RTP to send audio from and to different Linux computers, this is unfortunately an option that is getting more difficult to use as time passes. A few years ago when pulseaudio was dominating, it was trivial to just tick a few boxes, enable RTP, see a lit of devices in pasystray, and choose it with a few clicks. Now since pipewire, this is no longer possible. Sure, RTP still works, but using the command line is now mandatory, as all the GUI options have disappeared.

I still find myself reinstalling pulseaudio on most of my computers running Linux because I need RTP audio and it's disappointing that it's getting harder and harder to get it to work on Linux.

When I tried PulseAudio over network in addition to VNC I just got a really choppy unusable audio.
I just gave up and restored to streaming audio with VLC.

I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, but win11 can control both input and output per application.

I often route my Pandora audio through my stereo while my default/games go through my computer speakers (or sometimes my headphones)

You forgot the Ballmer Peak code from the 00's

To be fair, a lot of bluetooth headphone problems i had on my work laptop was just that other terrible Microslop product.

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!

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.

Work requires Ubuntu. Still with Kubuntu. Works, doesn't spy on me.

Brothers.

Setting up new laptops at work is similarly annoying even with every trick we keep up our sleeves. Naturally Microsoft does bypass some portion of that BS if you happen to be connecting to to an AD or Azure account because they don't want to completely piss off their core userbase

Ok, this prompted me to root-cause the issue. A bad cable between laptop and USB dock seems most likely. Hardware issue, not Linux!

I’m pretty sure working with software is the other.

My Sony Sennheiser Momentum 4 always say loudly "No connection" after I connect them, but they are connected. It doesn't annoy me too much though.

I use Mint btw

Strange, Bluedevil has been working consistently for a while. What Plasma version are you running?

I had issues with Bluetooth Audio once. 18 years ago on my first ever install on an IBM ThinkPad 600E that I had bought used with a USB Bluetooth dongle.

The movie "Legally Blonde." Reese Witherspoon's character gets into Harvard to be closer with the male, her ex.

He, astonished, asks for clarification if she got into Harvard, and she responds with the bottom text.

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?

Little problems like this are what makes me hesitate from switching full time.