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Hello, I need help with my audio. I've been experiencing high-pitched screeches / crackles when my PC starts reproducing some source of audio, be it a video, an audio file, or a program. It only lasts a few seconds at the beginning of reproduction, and it doesn't always happen. I'm using pipewire 1.4.9-1 and I'm on kernel 6.17.11. I've tried uncommenting

    default.clock.rate          = 48000
    default.clock.allowed-rates = [ 48000 ]

from the ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf file and restarting, but that didn't fix it.

This was only a problem until a month ago or so.

>>107536716
Are you sure it's not just interference? The audio connectors are usually poorly shielded so any slight little bit of interference can make it crackle or buzz.

>>107536740
If it was a hardware issue, you'd expect it to find the issue at any point during audio reproduction, and not only at the beginning. Additionally, nothing about my hardware setup has changed for years and this is the first time it's done this. I've also recently heard of other people having similar issues but with no known fix.

Here's a video that exhibits similar behavior (but not quite, because the screeches I get are shorter) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RjjV6CfO34o

Guys I am gonna install linux right now on my main machine because windows blue screen'd me third time this year, wish me luck
I used to use linux on virtualbox so I don't there will be much problems but anyway
Gpu is intel integrated btw on a Laptop
No idea if wayland got touchpad working on my laptop (hp-da0xxx) so I am gonna go for X and i3 as I am used to it
Well here we go

GNU is bloated and irrelevant, go alpine now for true freedom

>>107536879
don't think*

>>107536879
>>107536896
I have a lenovo ideapad laptop and my touchpad works with both X11 and Wayland, it's just a matter of installing the correct drivers.

>>107536459
nostalgic image

Since the W10 update scare a lot of normies have been asking me for advice on switching to Linux, but they don't want to let go of Microshit completely and nuke their Windows partition. Is there any distro that plays well with NTFS without corruption risks?

>>107537116
nobody should be using NTFS on linux. if you must use the same drive then create two partitions on it. one NTFS (windows) and the other EXT4 (linux). distro setup installer or drive cloning tools should be able to do this.

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Got new laptop, X390 Yoga.
Obviously I'm going with bleeding edge (arch/fedora or one of their clones)
What DE/WM should I go for?

>>107537216
Either KDE or something like Sway or Hyprland

>>107536459
Daily reminder that all linux users are trannies.

>>107537216
https://eylenburg.github.io/de_comparison.htm
Generally it is recommended to use one with Wayland for better security

>>107537187
I always tell them to get separate drives anyway because I don't like having two bootloaders on the same drive. The issue is that people seem to want to access the files on their Windows drive from Linux and I've heard to many horror stories to recommend using ntfs-3g.

>>107537404
Sometimes there's no way avoiding NTFS, believe it or not some games require it. But yeah in most cases they should just use separate drives.

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>>107537363
Wrong. All computer users are trannies.

>>107537404
>>107537454
Never understood the fuss about physical drives and operating systems, especially when UEFI-booting. You got a whole FAT32 filesystem with directory structure for storing bootloaders and crap so why not utilise it?
>>107536879
>problems
There's the fact you didn't check how it performs on your actual hardware.

>>107537499
the fuss is always legacy programs (windows). ltsc dropped their uefi requirement because some atms still use bios.

>>107537116
ntfs and other filesystems are related to the kernel and are distro-agnostic

>>107537526
Why didn't Microsoft just implement UEFI on top of BIOS? It's technically feasible to support that:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Clover

You just have the first stage BIOS bootloader bootstrap into a UEFI shim that does the rest.

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macOS won

>>107537457
Wrong, computers are trannies

>>107537650
Good. We don't need girls in our hobby

>>107537499
>There's the fact you didn't check how it performs on your actual hardware.
mfw
ok nvm everything is going fine, I am off for dinner now, will update on it after it

>>107537499
The only way to normie-proof everything would be install a catch-all bootloader on every physical disk in the system but that's "not elegant" or something so it's not done by default.

>>107537634
microsoft does the bare minimum because they are a cloud saas company not a ihv company.

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>>107537729
By catch-all you mean the
>\\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
?
Also there's a way of making the firmware to recreate entries: a CSV file placed under a vendor directory that contains all the relevant loader info. Debian and Fedora do this.
>>107537727
Obviously you can try a so called Live installer to see how your various peripherals work. Most installers contain the option to just boot a desktop instead of just running the installer wizard.

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>>107537718
>We don't need girls in our hobby
and yet you keep trying to be them

>>107537370
XFCE is based
>>107537332
KDE doesn't work well with thinkpads

>>107536938
Ok I will look into this
>>107537915
You are correct
Btw I got everything working and everything works nice, damn finally no more ptsd due to some System/Antivirus process

I'm having an annoying problem on Debian with I3. The nm-applet doesn't show my wired connection, and commands like nmcli network off and on have no effect. I couldn't find any solutions online, and going offline by removing the ethernet cable is annoying as fuck. I can't provide any output right now, I'm away from my computer.

>>107537116
>distro that plays well with NTFS
All of them.

>>107537499
>so why not utilise it?
Because trusting incompetent influencers and believing all sorts of myths is easier than performing some simple experiments and reading documentation.

>>107537216
MATE

>>107538067
>KDE doesn't work well with thinkpads
What issues have you encountered?

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When I auto remove unneeded packages and manually remove bloat, trim down ram and cpu usage disabling background services I don’t need, clean up my directories, swap out defaults for lighter options, etc. it feels like grooming a cat. Debloating is a hell of a drug I might go all the way and ditch a DE at this point.