>> Audio on linux is a complete joke Yes, for example, the zoom app is now one of the most widely relied on apps for connecting people over networks. To get

>> Audio on linux is a complete joke Yes, for example, the zoom app is now one of the most widely relied on apps for connecting people over networks. To get its audio output to fairly represent the input (e.g. for musical content), the input client is supposed to use the 'original audio' setting. That setting is not yet available on the linux version of zoom. On the output end, the audio is a mess, sounding as if somewhere along the way a handshake has turned into a fistfight. Audio is complicated. Another example: an ordinary amateur, part-time, casual guitarist might nowadays play with thousands of dollars of pedals and processors plugged into his signal path. He gets this to work by plugging and unplugging those devices and their cables in various configurations until everything sounds best. Try providing that level of flexibility in software with reasonable default settings for all of the myriad of applications and environments in which one might try to apply computer audio.