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    Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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    [–] [email protected] 264 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The duck can't actually say anything because his sound drivers randomly stopped working.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    In recent memory I've had both a microphone driver bug in Linux and one in macOS with specific hardware. Only one of them was fixed with an update.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Have you tried opening an issue with the drivers developers?

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    My experience with Apple issue reporting is that you're speaking into a void.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Seriously, pipewire is so much better than pulse. I remember having lots of sound issues on my laptop. Sound randomly becoming extremely distorted until I stopped and started playback, microphone volume resetting to 100% earraping everyone in discord calls, random pops and cracks... All of this was fixed by switching to pipewire

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    how make microphone volume not be able to go down from 100% when i switch to linux mint

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That would be really annoying (when I would use sound)

    On the other hand, the Nvidia card I use refuses to work via the external monitor (USB-C) at power on when plugged in. Power on, then plug in, then I have screen... weird.

    • Apple: We support apple hardware
    • Microsoft: We support hardware from this list
    • Linux: You want support, write it yourself.
    • Nvidia: You want support, use windows
    • Laptop developers: You want performance, oh, you're a gamer, here have a Nvidia card.

    You might ask, why a laptop: power consumption for the moments I don't need power. I don't want QHD on 17", 24" is better for my aging eyes so external monitor is a requirement. (previous one had 4K on 15", cheapest screen option to buy)

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
    • Microsoft: hardware supports us
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    I literally never got sound working on Ubuntu. MSI motherboard, Phenom II quad at the time.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Sure, if you go with that ~~attitude~~ PulseAudio.

    Uninstalled it for ALSA on every (every) machine I've touched that has to do audio, and haven't had issues since 2015.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I don't know if pulse ever worked right

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    When it made people switch back to ALSAyes it did. ;)