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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    My music box is win7. Only reason it doesn’t run on a Linux distro is the shitty lack of good audio under the hood of linux, and the annoyances of getting musicbee working right.

    It’s the only thing keeping anything of mine on windows. Wellllll, I did set up my laptop dual boot, and it came with 10 pro, but I haven’t actually booted into that in ages.

    And yes, for whoever is thinking “I hope that win 7 box is air gapped”, it is. Transfers are from an external hdd.

    • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      I’m not an audiophile pro, but Jack and PipeWire were supposed to bring high-quality low-latency audio infrastructure to the Linux desktop, maybe check that out?

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, it’s acceptable, but it still suffers in comparison to either the usual options on windows, or even the standard android audio. Can’t touch a solid dedicated DAC, though not much can, in truth.