gah, once again, i regret doing `apt -y full-upgrade`
now i have got constant stalls and glitches with the fucking sound system, i even tried switching to wayland to see if it was some contention with video, but no, shit is stuttering (just periodic dropout about 5 seconds or so)
fucking bullshit, now i have to wait for the next fucking patch and that will break something else
assholes
and i can't even be sure exactly what is the couse, it could be a USB device problem, it could be hardware, but since it started right after i once again let myself upgrade shit
more likely software
and this time, not kernel, because the kernel upgrade didn't trigger this, i did that several days ago, this just started up today
For example https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire says:
> In Debian 11, PipeWire 0.3.19 is available, and can be experimentally used as a substitute for the ALSA userspace library, PulseAudio, and JACK. This is a documented but unsupported use-case. In Debian 12, PipeWire 0.3.65 is available, and is considerably more reliable, and is a comfortable drop-in replacement for many use-cases. PipeWire is the default sound server with GNOME Desktop.
Try XFCE with xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, you might be better off.
So it's not just Microsoft borking your entire game/software library and ISA/PCI hardware due to the "developer support" blame game routine. These ponzi schemes are everywhere!
Don't wait. Seek atomic. Try nixos. Try btrfs rollbacks. Try something!
Keep learning. This is your wakeup call, don't let it slip away!
I personally went to a trayless cold swap bay/port/whatever. Now I have so many choices and stability that I get bored sometimes and even forget where my focus is... I'm working on that too.
In my mind's eye I am building the ultimate Linux distro. 😉 stay humble
in this case it was just some kind of bug in the pulseaudio scheduler... to be honest i would like to switch it over to jack2 with pulse as a module, jack's scheduling is pro audio grade... my usb sound device is fine, i was concerned it might be a USB issue, i think this gigabyte microatx motherboard i have is a bit flaky, cheap, after all...
anyway, yeah, i'm gonna really be wary about doing upgrades any time soon... at best only in the case where an upgrade is required to install something, and only the thing that it needs... version 6 kernels have been utter shit, overall, i was fine with my 5.15 for like 4 years and then suddenly everyones pushing 6 on you and every single version has been a lucky dip bargain bin situation
