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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.)
So real. Never have audio issues on my Linux PC.
Meanwhile my company issue ThinkPad just doesnβt want to work with any Bluetooth audio input. I canβt take work calls from any other device either due to IT policyβ¦
Over the years, I've just come to accept that, no matter the OS, there are just some things computers suck at. Working with hardware is one of them.
Iβm pretty sure working with software is the other.
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.
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.
Back in 2021 I remeber I had several issues with bluethooth audio, now it just works as soon as I take my headphones out of the case (even tho KDE says Bluethooth is disabled everytime)
I remember using my Bluetooth headset on my windows 10 laptop would completely freeze the settings and volume menus... It was a really powerful laptop too... So bizarre
Uh huh uh huh uh huh... call me when ALSAmixer is no longer needed to unmute the TOSLINK output on a new install because who the fuck knows why it's muted by default in ALSA and that setting is not surfaced anywhere in the UI.
I mean honestly π¬ it still kinda sucks compared to Windows. Less problems on Windows vs my Linux laptop. Do they mean wired headphones? Because I use Fedora on my framework 13 and my bluetooth headphones just do not want to play sometimes. It works after some reconnecting and switching outputs. Or my bluetooth keyboard is just not connecting sometimes. And I have to "forget" it and re-pair it. Sometimes I think a lot of my colleagues or friends with Linux systems just get used to rolling with punches/issues because it feels better to be working on Linux. At least I don't have to click away stupid full screen Microsoft Account reminders etc.
I have to "forget" it and re-pair it.
If you're dual-booting, you need to sync the Bluetooth pairing keys between Windows and 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 π
Unfortunately I do have headphone issues with Linux, but it's just a bit of silence when unpausing VLC.
Where is this meme from?
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.
Ha!
My work laptop is mandated win11.
I have working headphones.
I have working headphones set that go through a dock and through a KVM and through 20 feet of USB and three chained hubs between said laptop and my earballs.
They also switch beautifully over to the Nobara (fedora) I've installed, and even back to this ancient ring-fenced win7 physical I have.
Hell; I only had issues last year because I got a janky USB extension and the Dell cube dock is a piece of actual shit and the two couldn't cope.
What do I win with a ugreen usb3 sound dev and an apple 3.5mm earpods headphones plugged in? I mean, aside from a working comms rig.
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.
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.
Admitely, my cheap bluetooth in-ear manages to crash bluetoothd now and then.