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Frankly, sound has not been a problem for a long time now I think. Hell, the number of time windows killed the sound driver under usage for whatever reason it deemed useful, I actually would say nowadays Windows has the worst audio stack out of the 3 main OSs.

>>kaba0+(OP)
^ The only sound issues I've been having these days is Windows 10 randomly deciding to not recognize my USB audio interface after waking from standby and acting as-if I don't have audio output, requiring me to physically plug it out and back in again :)

>>kaba0+(OP)
I always seem to have hardware that hits an edge case for Linux support.

Take my gpu's sound support. If I run sound through DisplayPort it runs 40% slower and an octave an a half lower pitch. Over HDMI it runs fine. Oddly, if I have an HDMI device attached sound over DisplayPort runs fine, until the HDMI connection or computer goes to sleep.

My solution ended up being to get a cheap usb sound adapter and skip the gpu audio. As the HDMI would only do 4k at 30hz and DP does 4k at 60hz.

>>kaba0+(OP)
Tell that to my poor Legion 7i - Has on going onboard audio issues and very wonky iGPU/dGPU support.

>>kaba0+(OP)
Yep. Bluetooth audio is probably best on Linux of the main 3 now that PipeWire exists (literally rock solid, I've never had a connection drop ever), but it's a toss-up when directly comparing CoreAudio to PipeWire. Once PW irons out it's latency issues, Linux may once again become the AV king! (well, maybe not the video portion with the state of Wayland these days...)