Happened to me on Mint as well. Never resolved it. Using Nobara and Fedora now and never had any audio issues. Seems to be something with how Mint handles audio as I see people mention this a lot.

I had the same problem with mint.

It was on an ASUS Z790 motherboard and if you do a search you will see a fair few examples of people experiencing similar issues. Although there are dozens of different troubleshooting steps that people have tried to resolve it. I’m currently using Bazzite which I’m having a lot more success with, although I only ran Mint for a very short amount of time and I find it hard to believe that I did anything to break it.

I’m starting to hit some points where the limitations of Bazzite are causing me some issues, such as wanting to install hdr10plus_tools, but I’m persevering and might move to another distro as I get more comfortable.

I’m primarily a gamer and have recently started to use my PC as a Jellyfin server when I’m not gaming. So I’m learning slowly. It’s now been 4 weeks since I’ve used Windows which hasn’t happened in the last 33 years since I first used 3.11.

I feel like the switch has been made and I’m going stick with it in one form ity another.

To be fair I had Linux Mint installed recently and audio broke on the first update. Never could fix it. I had to reinstall. I’m a total noob on Linux but my experience doesn’t seem that unusual based on the huge number of troubleshooting steps I tried from users experiencing similar issues.

I was trying to make the leap but I’m now stuck without sound on Linux Mint. Just be aware that if you have some critical need (I’m job hunting and need to do some video conference interviews) that things can and do go past shaped and it’s not always straight forward to fix it.

Go dual boot until you’re confident that you can rely on it.

I’ll try to find some time to fix the sound and I’ll switch back to it or another distro.

Inconceivable!

I was running my Gateway 2000 486 sx33 with Linux did she extended amount of time as a router with NAT. I’ve still got it somewhere in the loft.

What does “spun up the live” mean? Is this a USB install?