@ipg living in a virtual insanity

@ipg@wetdry.world my chromebooks headphone jack when i boot an actual linux distro: (disappear.mp4)

@ipg Virtual Insanity fucking slaps tho ngl

@ipg i've literally had like zero (0) issues with audio on linux ever but i've seen it memed a lot lol
and with pipewire it's SO much better because now instead of loopback hell you just use helvum

@ipg POP OFF OOMFIE

@ipg pulseaudio moment

@ipg @12 I have felt this so hard recently as I’ve been building a media player through NixOS on a ten-ish year old 1l PC. Should probably just grab an ARM based thing.

@ipg This is a lie, I never had any trouble with sound.

@ipg f#*king PulseAudio …
ALSA worked so much better, why would you want a Windows-like daemon to manage your sound card is beyond me.

@ipg@wetdry.world so relatable. Swapping between apps or just like, existing can kill my sound. Seems like human sacrifice works more often than not though.

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I legit have no idea where this stereotype of linux sound issues comes from...

I have never had sound issues on linux...

@ipg My PC audio experience:

Windows: generally works but once in a while decides to fuck up your setup without you knowing, also you can't decide what plays where, also turns devices on and off and switches your defaults completely at random, also had 70 million control panels each doing something different

Linux: there's a bit of crackling while an app adjusts volume in a shitty way (e.g. youtube player) and,,, that's it

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Where things are big that should be small

points at any Electron app

@ipg it happens to me all the damn time that audio is just not working, and unplugging and plugging the speakers in again fixed it. Usually when coming out of sleep mode. (Actually a lot of shit randomly breaks when coming out of sleep mode)

@ipg yes!! why!!!

@ipg I feel this. Words cannot describe how much I struggle with getting audio working properly every time I install any distro. But at least you can do freaky things like output to the jack and speakers at the same time :3

@ipg@wetdry.world stole beebles joke smh

@ipg nah, it should be the pulseaudio logo, not tux

@ipg@wetdry.world Gentoo is the only DIY distro that I've used where the audio always works, and idk why

I spent 4 hours wondering why audio wasnt working only to realize i had alsa muted

@ipg on only one ear :blob_cat_oh_no: