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I don't know, I fought Bluetooth and headset mic configurations all the afternoon and got it working (God, I have two mic, why is there 12 mic outputs to choose

I don't know, I fought Bluetooth and headset mic configurations all the afternoon and got it working (God, I have two mic, why is there 12 mic outputs to choose from ?!) but I still don't want to get back on Windows (it wants too much ram and its file Explorer is too slow compared to dolphin). And then, how do I use bindfs with WSL ? Where are the WSL files and the docker volumes inside it ?

ABeeSea 7y ago
I’ve used windows my entire life/career. I recently moved jobs to an all Mac startup and I can’t believe how much better Bluetooth and VPN is. I keep messing up keyboard shortcuts and I don’t quite understand how “windows” work on a Mac. But the Bluetooth situation alone (I could never get my QC35s to work as a headset when needed and just headphones as needed) means I won’t use windows for a productive work environment for awhile. (Still have a gaming desktop that will always run windows for fun and VMs for dev)
- rewgs 7y ago
  > I don’t quite understand how “windows” work on a Mac. The app and having a window open of that app are decoupled, simple as that. Open up, say, Safari, press Cmd+W to close the window, and Safari will still be open. Press Cmd+N and you'll open a new window. Press Cmd+Q to quit it, regardless of how many windows (including zero) are open.
n_kr 7y ago
Can you share how you configured your bluetooth headset? I have a pair of sony's noise cancelling ones, but I could never get the mic to work on linux. Thanks in advance! This is about the only gripe I've had with linux desktop in recent years. For everything else, its been at par or better than windows/osx for me. I do mostly programming, music synthesis/recording and photogrammetry/image processing on a Dell XPS-15, and its been great.
- johnchristopher 7y ago
  Well, here's what I did (not in that specific order): - use alsamixer to find out which mic is which and if they are muted (it's a CLI app) - install blueman to have it easier to switch the headset to hsp/hfp (a2dp sink is one way and it means it's not designed to send sound from the headphones, I made that mistake) - since I have a Dell I had to fight that pesky mute led status in alsa (haven't figured out yet what it means, I ended up disabling the internal mic in the bios to be sure it was the headphone doing the recording) ; there are bug reports about the keyboard key not doing what it's supposed to do ; the internal mic only works when I set it to On in the alsamixer menu ; you can check if the laptop led is on or off (like the webcam) ; - use pavucontrol to try to figure out what device is doing what (it's like the sound control center but it displays more information) - make sure to switch off every device that is not your headset/headphone (hdmi, internal, anything) ; it's funny how you can configure an audio stream (say your laptop's internal speakers) to be the recording stream: it'll just record itself I also installed audacity and recorded myself muttering "blah blah" way too many times in order to try to identify the microphones detected by the system. I still don't understand why I have so many redundant output devices with the same name and an incremental version (:1, :2, :3) but hey.. it works (I just want to be able to video call two colleagues tomorrow, I really don't know how to control for quality if you have studio quality sound recording needs :/).
WorldMaker 7y ago
> Where are the WSL files and the docker volumes inside it ? In WSL1 files are stored in a protected folder of %LocalAppData%. It's protected because using Windows and regular NTFS-expecting tools has a bad tendency to mess up Linux ACL metadatda. More recent versions of WSL1 added a Plan9-based file server that shows up as a pseudo-device in Windows under a UNC path \\wsl$ In WSL2 the files are stored in a VHD-like file (VM hard drive) and the Plan9-based file server is always available in every version of WSL2 (under \\wsl$ still) and additionally used in both directions (/mnt/c/ is no longer a direct NTFS mount on the Linux side, but now uses the file server, because WSL2 is more VM-like in every facet).
- johnchristopher 7y ago
  I see, so basically I can't do this in WSL1 /usr/bin/bindfs --force-user=johnchristopher --force-group=johnchristopher --create-for-user=www-data --create-for-group=www-data /home/johnchristopher/.docker-data/volumes/web/_data /home/johnchristopher/Dev/Web So that I can write code without messing up permissions (and map xdebug path to ~/Dev/Web) ? But it could be done in WSL2 (keeping permissions intact in the volume while being able to edit them outside) ?
  - WorldMaker 7y ago
    I think that should work fine in WSL1. You just need to know that inside the WSL file system /home is not Windows %Home% (C:\Users\ or localized equivalent) and you want to use the \\wsl$ path for working with /home from Windows applications. The easiest way to tell if your WSL1 version is setup to provide \\wsl$ paths is to try `explorer.exe .` in the console in the directory you want the \\wsl$ path to. If it opens somewhere random in %System32% or %LocalAppData% then it doesn't support it (request an upgrade from your IT Admin).
    - johnchristopher 7y ago
      Thanks, I'll be trying that as soon as I can.

ABeeSea 7y ago

I’ve used windows my entire life/career. I recently moved jobs to an all Mac startup and I can’t believe how much better Bluetooth and VPN is. I keep messing up keyboard shortcuts and I don’t quite understand how “windows” work on a Mac. But the Bluetooth situation alone (I could never get my QC35s to work as a headset when needed and just headphones as needed) means I won’t use windows for a productive work environment for awhile. (Still have a gaming desktop that will always run windows for fun and VMs for dev)

rewgs 7y ago
> I don’t quite understand how “windows” work on a Mac. The app and having a window open of that app are decoupled, simple as that. Open up, say, Safari, press Cmd+W to close the window, and Safari will still be open. Press Cmd+N and you'll open a new window. Press Cmd+Q to quit it, regardless of how many windows (including zero) are open.

n_kr 7y ago

Can you share how you configured your bluetooth headset? I have a pair of sony's noise cancelling ones, but I could never get the mic to work on linux. Thanks in advance! This is about the only gripe I've had with linux desktop in recent years. For everything else, its been at par or better than windows/osx for me. I do mostly programming, music synthesis/recording and photogrammetry/image processing on a Dell XPS-15, and its been great.

johnchristopher 7y ago
Well, here's what I did (not in that specific order): - use alsamixer to find out which mic is which and if they are muted (it's a CLI app) - install blueman to have it easier to switch the headset to hsp/hfp (a2dp sink is one way and it means it's not designed to send sound from the headphones, I made that mistake) - since I have a Dell I had to fight that pesky mute led status in alsa (haven't figured out yet what it means, I ended up disabling the internal mic in the bios to be sure it was the headphone doing the recording) ; there are bug reports about the keyboard key not doing what it's supposed to do ; the internal mic only works when I set it to On in the alsamixer menu ; you can check if the laptop led is on or off (like the webcam) ; - use pavucontrol to try to figure out what device is doing what (it's like the sound control center but it displays more information) - make sure to switch off every device that is not your headset/headphone (hdmi, internal, anything) ; it's funny how you can configure an audio stream (say your laptop's internal speakers) to be the recording stream: it'll just record itself I also installed audacity and recorded myself muttering "blah blah" way too many times in order to try to identify the microphones detected by the system. I still don't understand why I have so many redundant output devices with the same name and an incremental version (:1, :2, :3) but hey.. it works (I just want to be able to video call two colleagues tomorrow, I really don't know how to control for quality if you have studio quality sound recording needs :/).

WorldMaker 7y ago

> Where are the WSL files and the docker volumes inside it ? In WSL1 files are stored in a protected folder of %LocalAppData%. It's protected because using Windows and regular NTFS-expecting tools has a bad tendency to mess up Linux ACL metadatda. More recent versions of WSL1 added a Plan9-based file server that shows up as a pseudo-device in Windows under a UNC path \\wsl$ In WSL2 the files are stored in a VHD-like file (VM hard drive) and the Plan9-based file server is always available in every version of WSL2 (under \\wsl$ still) and additionally used in both directions (/mnt/c/ is no longer a direct NTFS mount on the Linux side, but now uses the file server, because WSL2 is more VM-like in every facet).

johnchristopher 7y ago
I see, so basically I can't do this in WSL1 /usr/bin/bindfs --force-user=johnchristopher --force-group=johnchristopher --create-for-user=www-data --create-for-group=www-data /home/johnchristopher/.docker-data/volumes/web/_data /home/johnchristopher/Dev/Web So that I can write code without messing up permissions (and map xdebug path to ~/Dev/Web) ? But it could be done in WSL2 (keeping permissions intact in the volume while being able to edit them outside) ?
- WorldMaker 7y ago
  I think that should work fine in WSL1. You just need to know that inside the WSL file system /home is not Windows %Home% (C:\Users\ or localized equivalent) and you want to use the \\wsl$ path for working with /home from Windows applications. The easiest way to tell if your WSL1 version is setup to provide \\wsl$ paths is to try `explorer.exe .` in the console in the directory you want the \\wsl$ path to. If it opens somewhere random in %System32% or %LocalAppData% then it doesn't support it (request an upgrade from your IT Admin).
  - johnchristopher 7y ago
    Thanks, I'll be trying that as soon as I can.