It’s pretty ironic to have problems with audio not recognizing headphones… on WINDOWS.
Multi-trillion (10^12) dollar company, btw.
(Both laptops are reasonably new.)
is it time for a Windows edition of the classic Jamiroquai sound meme?
Literally, neither my PC screen works, nor does the download version of spotify work on my Win11 PC. Literally unusable garbage… Long live ubuntu for just doing what i tell it to do.
On Windows audio cuts out every so often.
Also an update broke a driver a bit ago and I had to edit the registry to fix it.
Linux is my comfort OS, everything just works.
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!
Linux revoked my mic permissions in the middle of a call today, on Google Meet. Happened before on Zoom.
I have not root-caused it to see if there was flaky hardware or what.
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 can’t say I’ve had a great time with audio in either personally, though it’s indeed much easier to fix audio problems in Linux. But just yesterday pipewire must have hung or crashed preventing all browser based video playback entirely, which due to the symptoms not appearing audio related was quite annoying to debug. I still have no idea what caused it in order to avoid it happening again in the future.
Most machines have issues with the headset headphones.
Windows, Mac, Linux.
Many headphones that are headsets will pair as a dual device with the crappy two way audio that sounds like you just connected to your cars Bluetooth from 2005x
The fun part about windows is you don’t know if it’s breaking because of the coke code from the 80’s or the vibe code from the ‘20s.
You forgot the Ballmer Peak code from the 00’s
Oh, yeah, cocaïne fuelled developers bouncing around. I’d forgotten about those.
Developers Developers Developers Developers
Linux audio issues were common during the transition to PulseAudio, but that was almost 20 years ago now.
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.
Two programs not being able to use the sound card at the same time is what happens when you set a program to use an ALSA hw or plughw device instead of PulseAudio or PipeWire.
And they continued until the transition to Pipewire.
I had a shortcut on my taskbar to terminate and reinitialize Pulse. It got used multiple times a day.
Agreed, it was the next step from pulseaudio. To say it wasnt problematic is incorrect, as it had many problems and needed a lot of manual intervention.
Nowadays, pipewire appears alot more stable, even with the compatibility layers for when stuff uses pulseaudio.
I’ve been using Linux as my main operating system since 2010 and can’t recall having any audio issues. My desktop has 5 sound cards and they all work fine. I don’t use bluethooth for audio, so I guess that makes things easier.
Bluetooth have been kinda crap but also HDMI audio devices have been buggy. Analog in/out (3.5mm) has always worked for me.
HDMI audio depends on a proprietary license. The Linux drivers for it are, predictably, less robust.
I guess you’ve just been lucky.
I remember when I used to have audio problems all the time, including headphones literally just not even working somehow. Then I switched to Linux.
Dell laptop at a fortune 500. They locked USB and audio down hard on these laptops. Flahsdrives don’t work unless you get an approved dongle. Wired headphones only allow either the mic or headphone output to be working, never both. So I end up using the laptop mic and headphone output.
But Bluetooth is fair game and everything works just fine there 🙃
You raise a good point and everybody rage commenting really doesn’t help - I wonder if they’re using the analog sockets or USB devices?
Unfortunately I do have headphone issues with Linux, but it’s just a bit of silence when unpausing VLC.
Are you using pulseaudio? Could be module suspend on idle (link is blocked for me, might work for you): https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#module-suspend-on-idle
The entire volume control and Bluetooth connection management in Windows is an insane pile of garbage that seems deliberately hard to navigate and frequently doesn’t work for no apparent reason. Which is wild because they could have just not changed it at all since it used to be fine.
The underlying architecture for Windows has changed like three times since those systems were created. The fact it works at all is a minor miracle.
Yeah, but does your half-assed linux install come with the incredibly useful NoPilot? Huh?
Checkmate, linux nerds!
Whats nopilot 👽
It’s Microslop’s Artificial Idiocy
Oh the idiocy is very real
Ty
I imagine it’s rephrased “Copilot”.
Or outfazed copilot
I have two nice speakers in my office, that have to be connected using aux. My shitty Windows work laptop only has USB-C, so the aux is plugged into a little converter thingy. It sometimes crashes the fuck out, and plays white noise at max volume until replugged. Tried the same setup from my private laptop running NixOS. Absolutely no issues at all.
To be fair, a lot of bluetooth headphone problems i had on my work laptop was just microsoft teams.
My most recent project requires me to use teams again -.-
It finds new ways to loose my peripheral devices ever day and adds effects to my camera that are not even available in the menu. I’m wondering if they try to get you to install it, or hate Mac users or Firefox or whatever. I mean it has been bad for all the time I knew it, but it seems to be getting even worse.
To be fair, a lot of bluetooth headphone problems i had on my work laptop was just that other terrible Microslop product.
