PSA: If you own an audio settings UI, it is now easier to enable mono audio on Linux
https://arunraghavan.net/2026/01/accessibility-update-enabling-mono-audio/
PSA: If you own an audio settings UI, it is now easier to enable mono audio on Linux
https://arunraghavan.net/2026/01/accessibility-update-enabling-mono-audio/
That's what I've been doing for a decade. I don't mind constraints, not a all. I want stability and consistency. And I never got this with linux audio.
Last weeks bummer: shortly before a live performance the USB interface got disconnected: afterwards ALSA only recognized it as MIDI interface. Could only solve it via a complete system reboot. It felt like in the old windows days "Have you tried rebooting?".
Things like that just keep delaying and destroying creative processes. Most of my friends just run logic pro or abelton live and they rather can tell one such story a year, and then it's been the cable.
I guess most issues I had where not at the DAW level, though I had those too. I have lot of hopes in #Pipewire, but currently it's more a mystery box where most of the time stuff just works but sometimes it just doesn't and it leaves me with no clue where to look, how to debug and how to report. And when in 2026 changing or checking the sample rate is still a thing I have to look up in an internet search, things do not feel right for me yet.
Ok #HiveMind, I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out #PipeWire.
Is there an idiots guide to "connect the audio output of program X to the input of program Y?"
I used to know how to do it with pacmd, but PipeWire is the shiny object du jour for the linux dev crows and so I have to learn a new thing. :eyeroll:
I just want to take the sound output of the #SDR program I'm using (SDR++) and pipe it into #wsjtx for decoding #WSPR signals (assuming I can get them 😁 )
Ok #HiveMind, I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out #PipeWire.
Is there an idiots guide to "connect the audio output of program X to the input of program Y?"
I used to know how to do it with pacmd, but PipeWire is the shiny object du jour for the linux dev crows and so I have to learn a new thing. :eyeroll:
I just want to take the sound output of the #SDR program I'm using (SDR++) and pipe it into #wsjtx for decoding #WSPR signals (assuming I can get them 😁 )
I’m using qpwgraph with OBS, but it spawns each OBS audio source separately when it plays. Can’t route fast enough, or click back to the qpwgraph to select activate, exclusive and so on, while I’m performing…
Anyone using Virtual Sinks for this? Ideally I’d like to tell it: “all audio from OBS goes here”, “all audio from Firefox goes here”, etc.
I’m using qpwgraph with OBS, but it spawns each OBS audio source separately when it plays. Can’t route fast enough, or click back to the qpwgraph to select activate, exclusive and so on, while I’m performing…
Anyone using Virtual Sinks for this? Ideally I’d like to tell it: “all audio from OBS goes here”, “all audio from Firefox goes here”, etc.
I can't use #Wayland with my #Linux system. Performance is terrible.
I have a 2021 Lenovo P17Gen1.
It has both an Intel P630 and NVIDIA RTX3000 Mobile GPU, running as a Prime pair.
It has a 4K eDP display, and two LG 4K displays, one connected via USB-C, and one via DP, via a TB3 Dock, all running at 60Hz.
It has 128GB of RAM, and 4TB of striped BTRFS SSD.
I am running the latest #Hyprland.
I tried running on #Arch, which cut the frame rate worse than half ANY time I connected an external 4K display ANYWHERE on either the laptop, or dock, DP, or USB-C. It refused to work via HDMI.
Switched to #Ubuntu and use Koolit's #Ubuntu installer for Hyprland. Performance is close to 60fps, but not quite. Stutters, and OBS runs at an average of 10fps, regardless of whether #PipeWire is in use, or not. Unusable.
I have been a #Linux user since September of 1991, and I can't even begin to know where the FK to go to even diagnose this problem, due to the sheer number of variables.
Is it the NVIDIA drivers?
Is it Wayland?
Is it Hyprland?
Is it Pipewire?
Why is the performance better on #Ubuntu than on #Arch?
If I were to use Wayland, what COMPARABLE GPU would I use instead?
Do I just completely jettison using a laptop and build a workstation instead?
Why in the flying FK can I not get stable vsync?!
I am posting this, because I am genuinely looking for knowledgable answers from knowlegable people, and I am VERY concerned, that given the mass exodus from Xorg to Wayland, that I need to figure out something before I end up with a system configuration that is unusable.
-Thom
