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I feel the same pain. Sound is a problem in my x86_64 Linux. One of the sound cards doesn't work anymore, don't know what happened. But if I pass it through to a Windows virtual machine with virt-manager, it works!

So many problems for the desktop, that come almost day in day out that I'm considering trying Haiku OS for the desktop. Just need something that works.

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I have the feeling that between graphics and sound processing there is just a dearth of material about how the underlying mechanisms that drive that portion of computing actually work. At least, I haven't really the magic words to represent "For God sake, what do I have to line up to make this stiff work" yet.

It's front and center of this decades computing goals for me. To that end, I've been looking into things like how X actually works, actually making use of graphics processing hardware, and the like. If anyone has some good reading, I'd love to know.

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