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I've been using Linux on my desktop for nearly 30 years and i still don't understand how to get sound working properly and reliably.
Searching for some kind of distro-agnostic 2025 Linux audio general best practices guide... What should I be using (ALSA, jack, pulse, pipewire?), how can I configure multiple sound devices (onboard, HDMI, USB, Bluetooth), set my preferred inputs and outputs and levels on each, toggle between them properly, and have those settings persist after logout, reboot, or removal/addition of devices?
@pcyx If it can be of any comfort to you, audio and devices control is a mess on any system, including Windows, from time to time. I have continuously colleagues with problems in making even simple telcos. That said, for me it is quite stable using Gnome on Debian 12 and multiple devices (headphones, cameras, internal, BT).
@gisgeek Oh yeah, sadly I use windows at work all day every day and it's a mess. And god help you if you need to use MIDI or an application requiring ASIO4ALL drivers!
I've never used a MacOS device so I'm not sure if they have it any better in Apple world.
I've never actually tried to use Bluetooth audio in Linux either (or Bluetooth anything in Linux for that matter) but it's always one of the issues I read about from other people.