My wife wanted to play Phasmophobia and the mic wouldn’t work because the input was defaulting to the headphones but the output was to my speakers. When I switched the output to the headphones, no audio worked, input or output, at all.

iTunes does this shit too where you have to restart the app to get the audio stream to change.

Why so shitty?

    • dat_math [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Really? I tried switching my gaming/entertainment device to linux (I tried ubuntu and arch) and found that in contrast to windows, where configuring surround sound audio took 5 seconds to set up the driver for my card and another 10 to disable "enhancements", on linux I spent about 10 hours trying to get surround sound to work and gave up because no matter what I did the best I could get was choppy distorted sounding quadraphonic.

        • dat_math [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I did. It was still choppy and made music unlistenable. Then I tried a bunch of shit that was supposed to reduce decoding latency so that the signal would stop stopping arbitrarily and that didn't work so now I dual boot.

          • neo [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I've never had a surround setup but I wonder if Pipewire would help in this case. It's been a sort of miracle solution for me and some specific issues I had with PulseAudio.

            • dat_math [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              hmmmm I might try this if I find a break from my other projects. Thanks!