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That's an old meme. Audio "just works" for years. With pipewire, it's actually better than MacOs and Windows in many scenarios. (yes, yes, there's always some one-off issue, but that's not Linux-specific - I've got some "audio broken on windows" stories to trade too, and can tell you about macbooks going right-channel-only mono when using specific BT codecs)


Pipewire has been fantastic. Works great and was a drop-in replacement for pulseaudio.


I don’t think it’s that big of an issue, but having come back to linux via the steam deck this year I laughed that literally the first bug I encountered was an audio one. This one: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/822

Allegedly fixed now.


It's an older meme sir but it checks out.

For instance, SteamVR still can't auto switch audio out to the headset.


Well ... my cheap BT headphones work far more realisable on Linux that in W11




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