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0 pointsbrusch649y ago0 comments

Which audio cards do you mean exactly ?

I'm pretty happy with most of the newer USB audio interfaces, as they happen to be more and more class compliant, so you don't need a seperate driver for it. I'm using the Presonus AudioBox 1818. It works fine with Linux, but I can't use the internal mixing engine. Would be fine if that worked, but is not that important for me.

What I really like about Linux drivers is that if they work, they won't get obsolete so quickly. I've had more luck with old supported hardware on Linux than on newer Windows versions. I also don't miss all the crapware that comes with some Windows drivers. I am looking at you Nvidia - I just want my monitor to work, I don't need 10 tools for my third monitor.

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lj39y ago

You name it, I've had issues with it. From the Intel audio card in my Thinkpad w530 to the Creative Soundblaster in my radio station's automation tower. I've never used a USB audio interface with Linux, but bluetooth audio on linux has a massive delay. In fairness, that delay is also present on OS X. For whatever reason, Windows is the only OS that will stream audio across bluetooth in real time.

It's possible the issue isn't with the audio drivers themselves but with PulseAudio and ALSA, which are both huge, steaming pile of shit. I just assumed PulseAudio and ALSA were both bad because of bad driver support and not because nobody in the linux ecosystem knows how to write an audio system.

brusch64OP9y ago

okay ?

I'm not using Bluetooth on my Linux PCs, so I can't comment on this.

The last audio problems I had with Linux was more than 6 years ago when I was using Ubuntu - it configured my soundcard on the PC wrong, was easily fixed. I am using Arch Linux in the last years and didn't have a problem with sound card drivers at all. Recording 16 tracks at the same time, mixing and using the HDMI or the analog Output on my media pc.

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