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The Linux sound system isn't broken. It is in excellent shape. If you choose your distro wisely [1], you will get amazing sound on Linux. You may even discover that Linux Audio rocks hard, like no other platform. [2]

What is not working, is your distributions' responsibility for setting it all up for you. What's your distro?

[1] - http://ubuntustudio.org/ [2] - http://zynthian.org/




XUbuntu 18.04.3 LTS

It is possibly eroded somewhat by liberal use of "apt -F install".

But something was wrong to begin with because Wine and Virtualbox refused to install properly. "i7-3770 CPU" + [GeForce GTX 760].

But this is my Steam-machine mostly, which works OK, so no actual alarms.




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