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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.

What does this mean? I've never had this problem on windows...

i'm just amazed that under w10 i was able to change my audio output device without issues meanwhile in w11 after digging into the taskbar you pick an audio output and IT DOESNT DO SHIT IT DOESNT CHANGE AT ALL YOU HAVE TO CHANGE IT BACK AND FORTH UNTIL THE SPIRIT OF WINDOWS ELEVEN DECIDES YOU ARE WORTHY

I cannot get Linux mint Bluetooth to work anymore even with a good tp link dongle off my desktop. It skips or hiccups every minute.

I feel like it didn't do this a few months ago...not one thing I've done has fixed, and no one can help me. 🤒

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 🙃

Admitely, my cheap bluetooth in-ear manages to crash bluetoothd now and then.

I've been having to lean on my (now deactivated due to declining upgrade) win10 install to get around a couple games anticheat, for games I can play solo. Wild.

The amount of shit that "just (doesn't) works" is astounding after having had to do nothing more than reboot to fix something busted for years since I switched to mint.

is it time for a Windows edition of the classic Jamiroquai sound meme?

Unfortunately I do have headphone issues with Linux, but it's just a bit of silence when unpausing VLC.

I am just pissed that my bluetooth earbuds at work, ever since upgrading to Win10 (I think? Been a while ago), have issues with their microphones.

If I join a meeting every few minutes audio quality turns robotic, sounds like a very low quality phone call. The only solution is before I join a meeting and almost every time I connect my earbuds, to deselect the microphone on them and instead use the laptop microphone. Which you cannot do "on the fly" while in a meeting, because then you of course just lose all sound immediately.

So it is either being ok with sound quality going down every few minutes, making it difficult to hear people, or dropping in and out of the meeting akwardly to correct this, should I forget this before the meeting.

They worked fine pre-Win10. They still work fine on any other non-Windows device I use. There is absolutely no reason to justify this but somehow it does not get fixed.

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.

Between my Linux laptop, my window gaming computer, and my apple work laptop I never have audio issues.

I'm sure Linux is great with headphones too, but is there really a widespread issue with them in Windows?

Obviously it's not difficult to "recognise" a headset plugged into the 3.5mm jack, so I'm presuming the author means Bluetooth.

In general, I've been very impressed with the improved audio system and controls between Win10 & 11, it needed a big upgrade and we got it. Similarly, Bluetooth UI and ease of use has shot up too. The old Bluetooth UI was awful.

I use various Bluetooth audio devices daily, as well as 3.5mm audio stuff, and have various needs for routing and altering audio with virtual audio cables, etc, and it all works flawlessly for me.

I'm just one person though, not really a great sample size!

Anyway, I'm surprised to hear there's a widespread issue with Bluetooth audio in Windows 11, given how standardised and widely used everything is these days. You'd think that'd be ironed out reasonably quickly, lest hundreds of millions of people struggle :-(

That's a driver thing, so it's wrong to blame Windows for this, when the drivers probably aren't even made by Microsoft.