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The fact that I could just install linux and run my current game with (almost) zero issues impresses me immensely! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The only issues I've had were audio related, first the soundcard wouldn't work and I switched to a USB mixer, but after waking the computer this morning the USB mixer won't work and now I have to use the magically working built in sound card. What's that about?

Anyway, Linux has come a long way. The freezes that sometimes occured in the game I'm playing aren't even happening anymore.

E: I should probably clarify that the audio issue spans the whole operating system, not just the game.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's almost always a compatibility issue. It's kind of arcane obscure stuff, like the particular version of the particular sound chip that somehow works 99% of the time with the same kernel drivers for the chip family but has some small bug that makes the audio engine bork. Allegedly Pipewire has been working hard at being more resilient to those issues and it's been integrated progressively in more and more distributions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's been so much worse just some years ago. I'm forever traumatised by the acronym ALSA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

ALSA was a big step up over OSS.