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  • Pulseaudio can remap channels directly, so you can take a 7.1 input and output two entire stereo outputs to a 7.1 speaker system, which would solve my issue and then some. Making a custom profile is a tad more involved than clicking buttons, but CLI isn’t needed at all.

    I found a solution in under a minute that should work on most modern Linux DEs. I suppose it’s not by an official Linux support channel, but AskUbuntu was literally the first search result.

    Ah, support as in “this program is supported”. I can definitely agree with that


  • better than any other platform out there when it comes to support

    Lol, as a user Windows support is garbage. Every step is “restart, reinstall drivers, scannow”.

    None of those things are going to make windows pass all LR audio to the FLR channels of a 5.1 system, yet I know it’s possible. It can happen if enough settings are fiddled with, but I don’t know which ones, and it gets reset every reboot.

    None of those things are going to stop some system utility maxing out disk writing and freezing the system for 10 minutes every boot.

    None of those things will stop hardware acceleration from crashing my browser.


    • Lack of middle click paste.
    • Lack of the ability to drag windows using “alt”.
    • I can’t change the volume by using the scroll wheel.

    These feel like DE specific complaints rather than Windows complaints. I wish I could use windowkey to switch applications for example.

    Changing sliders with mouse wheel does sound cool, I want that.


  • Your last memory of Windows is 7? Lucky.

    8 was Vista but with mobile UI.

    10 eventually fixed 80% of 8’s problems, and added some gaming performance. Also, ads for featured windows store games. It’ll even preinstall them for you!

    11 is just 10 but with most of the sensible parts removed. Also, you need DRM in your CPU to use it. UX? What’s that?

    Sigh I miss 7…