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.)
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 wish I could fix my audio issues with Retroarch on SteamOS, I can’t get any audio to play even in the menus for RetroArch TT_TT
LOL Yeah, I mean Linux has always had audio problems, but I find that I can solve Linux related ones mine faster than on Windows (when I used that garbage). The time it took grew smaller as my knowledge grew. Pulseaudio will randomly shit the bed and take Alsa with it. So about three terminal commands and 5 minutes later my sound is often repaired. It is weird that a billions of dollars sort of company can’t get that shit right or make it a speedy fix at the very least. The troubleshooting tool would take fucking forever and often shit the bed. Touching the Powershell was cursed, but Linux made the terminal a blessed experience!
I did IT for my company on the side of my job for a year or two.
Prolific problem where windows would disable the microphone but every single “windows tool” said it was working perfectly fine except teams would say it was not available.
The only possible fix that someone on the internet found was to download an old sketchy file from a 3rd party source for an archived version of their “pre-help-assistant AI slop” audio troubleshooter, and run that and it would immediately say “oh, it is disabled, let me re-enable it for you”
Even though every tool, setting, and even registry said it was enabled.
Microsoft has the worst audio.
Linux audio issues were common during the transition to PulseAudio, but that was almost 20 years ago now.
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.
pipewire is so cool! It’s so easy to set it up to sling to snapcast!
[sobbing] I don’t know what the fuck snapcast is, I just want sound to work!
It’s a pretty easy setup for turning all of your Linux devices into speakers for one studio stream.
Set up some raspberry pis, plug them into speakers around the house, hit a button on your phone, they’re all playing synchronized musicSounds expensive.
Have you got like, an old phone or laptop? And some old PC speakers? Then you’ve got surround sound.
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.
I’ve definitely had some on and off audio issues, nothing crazy usually solved by unplugging and replugging in the device.
I guess you’ve just been lucky.
Or you’ve just been unlucky.
It’s very common to have audio issues, in fact. Pipewire is seen as a golden age by many.
Pipewire is my goat
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.
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.
Back when I first started using Linux, PulseAudio was not yet a thing. Back then I was using Mandriva/Mandrake and Redhat (prior to switching to Enterprise).
I was about to say… Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but I haven’t had the slightest issue with Linux audio. Ever.
mint occasionally loses all sound devices on my media pc, but that’s usually fixed with a reboot. and easy effects caused random sound lags, so i have to live without eq.
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.
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)
Strange, Bluedevil has been working consistently for a while. What Plasma version are you running?
I’m on 6.5 now.
In 2021 I was using a laptop with a different chipset, now I’m using one of those cheap USB Bluethooth dongles you find on Amazon for 5$
My
SonySennheiser Momentum 4 always say loudly “No connection” after I connect them, but they are connected. It doesn’t annoy me too much though.I use Mint btw
Sony momentum 4?
Surely you mean Sennheiser Momentum 4 or Sony WH-1000XM4?
Sennheiser of course, thx
I mean honestly 😬 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.
Ha, I’m not dual booting :)
f you have wired or properly standards compliant bluetooth headphones it works fine on both.
If you have (cheapo) non-compliant stuff it’s a crapshoot on both, but there’s more likely some drivers to make up the difference on windows, whereas on linux you’re deep diving obscure crap, it can be done, but is it really worth the effort?
If it’s musical instruments, especially midi, you’re often better off on linux these days, but you might have to pay for a DAW and some commercial plugins are hit or miss.
just got a new laptop and wanted to boot into windows once so i could make sure bitlocker was off and i had to go through 15 minutes of clicking decline on upsells for 365 vs clicking on install linux mint from the live usb and being yes install
Between my Linux laptop, my window gaming computer, and my apple work laptop I never have audio issues.
PipeWire (written by Wim Taymans) did a lot of good for the Linux distro ecosystem when it comes to audio.
I will never forgive him and Fedora for rolling it out when it was a half-baked piece of shit though.
I remember the times before pipewire, not that fun.
Yet more fun than using microslops slop
That’s a driver thing, so it’s wrong to blame Windows for this, when the drivers probably aren’t even made by Microsoft.
Why would standard Bluetooth audio profiles need some specialty drivers?
Right, I assumed we’re talking about jack sensing
I doubt it even more that the ‘audio plug is connected’ event is reliant on software.
Then believe me it is
Hm? Why would it be?
Afaik wired audio is a solved problem since the introduction of the AC’97 standard in, fittingly, 1997. Which, as it happens, relies on an audio controller that sits between the hardware and the OS. Major OSes have been shipped with standard drivers for AC’97 support for the past twenty-nine years or thereabouts.
This leads me to believe that the OP is talking about Bluetooth, still rather wonky between different software stacks.
Admitely, my cheap bluetooth in-ear manages to crash bluetoothd now and then.
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.
Simping pipe wire … That’s a choice.
I’m simping pipewire all day, that shit works flawless and is a godsend after years of pulse.
