When Pulseaudio was new, it caused horrible artifacts in my sound driver.
Now it seems Fedora 38 is having basically the same problems, where if you seek to various parts of the audio or video file you’ve loaded, you get this horrible “crunching, grinding noise” in the audio.
Sometimes you can fix it by closing and reopening the program (media player or browser), but sometimes it takes a reboot.
They can never just leave shit alone when it’s working. This is not even repairing an actual problem that existed. This is more like opening the hood of your car and replacing good car parts for no reason.
“This one has worked for a long time, this one costs money and has never worked in anything before. Oh yeah, let’s replace it and see what happens. Also, delete the office suite.”
Apparently, Fedora has ran off so many community members and IBM Red Hat has fired so many developers that I doubt this problem will be solved soon.
I recently posted about them dropping LibreOffice RPMs and saying it was just too much work (they build an entire OS) and that they were farming it out to FlatHub (which hosts proprietary software and likely some “malware” like the bitcoin miners that got into Canonical’s Snap Store).
“Modern” Linux means bloating it up and surrendering security guarantees and making sure nothing integrates properly with the system.
By making it the developer’s problem to package software, IBM Red Hat creates a bigger “GULAG” of unpaid labor. Then they just point people to FlatHub, which is just a really bad experience all around.
I was happy that it existed at first, figuring that it would be an optional source of software if Fedora didn’t package it, now Fedora deletes RPMs and offloads the problem onto the user, which now has to use untrusted third-party binaries.
Given all the problems that are cropping up with Fedora, I’m likely going to be in the market for a competent distribution soon.
Even Debian 12 added 11,500 packages and Fedora can’t maintain LibreOffice. LOL ⬆