u/ChipsAhoiMcCoy

For reference, I’m currently on Bazzite, but this has happened not only on multiple machines, but multiple distributions as well. This is something I’ve historically always, always, always faced with Lennox.

So I really want to figure out why this is happening in the Linux distributions I have used. In every single one of them that I have tried so far, whenever I turn on my Orca screen reader or I play a game of some kind, it seems like I'm always getting clipping when I do these things. It's as if there's always this constant distortion that's happening, and I honestly have no idea why. I've talked to ChatGPT about it and Codex, and it seems like it could be a gain issue where things are being allowed to go past 100% volume in some cases, but this is kind of beyond my pay grade. I've been a Windows guy for 20 plus years at this point, so I feel very in the dark when it comes to how the Linux audio system is supposed to work. Do you guys have any suggestions for things I can try, or is this a common issue you guys have also faced? This isn't limited to one distribution, like I said, this seems to happen on quite literally almost all of them. From what I understand, there are limiters that I can set up and use, so if that's the route I have to go down, I am willing to try that, but I'm looking for something graceful, like maybe if there's some kind of configuration somewhere where I can set it from 100% down to 80% and it just applies negative preamp gain or something to prevent clipping across the board. I'm not really sure if that makes sense, but I'm honestly open to hearing anything you guys have to say. I need a Linux audio guru at this point.

So this is one thing that I've always wondered about. Anytime I've tried a Linux distribution and I turn Orca on, since I'm blind, the voice feedback that I get is always really distorted, like it's clipping. In the past, when I've used Windows and I set it to eSpeak, which is the same speech system that Linux uses, with NVDA, I get no clipping at all and everything sounds totally normal. But every time I get on a Linux distribution, the first thing I'm greeted with every time is very bad levels of clipping, which are present until I set the volume down to about 50% through the Orca settings. Why is this the case, though? Is there some way on Linux that I can prevent clipping across the board? I'm not sure how Windows tends to handle this, but I don't seem to have that problem on Windows regardless of what I'm opening or listening to, and I would love to fix this issue on Linux, because that's one of the reasons why I'm not able to switch fully, because I basically have to interface with this voice the entire time I'm using my computer, since it's basically my eyes. So if it's clipping and destroying like this, it can be really distracting and bad-sounding. Any ideas you guys would have to try to fix something like this would be greatly appreciated. Notably, the distributions I've tried were Debian testing, Bazight, and SteamOS. All three of which seem to have this issue for one reason or another.

Hey everyone, so I'm having a bit of trouble getting my Fedora to install, and I honestly have no idea why. I'm trying to install Fedora Workstation, and I tried both the 44 beta and the 43 stable, but neither of which have worked. I've tried using the official Fedora media creation tool, and I've also tried using Rufus to no avail either. Basically, what seems to be happening is I am going through the process of creating the bootable USB drive, and everything seemingly works fine, but then when I plug it into my desktop and I start pressing F11 to get into the boot menu and I choose the USB stick, the actual Fedora setup gives me an error at the bottom saying that I can't use this media to install Fedora because the check failed. I really, truly have no idea what could be going on here, and any advice would be greatly appreciated. Is this a common thing that can happen? If it helps, my motherboard is the MSI Tomahawk B650M Mag Plus WiFi.

I’m blind, and Fedora Workstation Beta seems to have a pretty new version of Orca. I’m very interested for that reason. If you have any other recommendations though, I would be more than happy to hear them! I tried the stable release of Bazzite, and while it did work, there were a few issues here and there which made me hop off of it. Now, my Windows install decided to shit the bed, so I’m looking into trying another distro. If I can’t get Fedora to work with whatever recommendations here, any other recommendations?