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It's because toslink is not a true multichannel capable interface. It was designed for stereo only. I can barely squeeze compressed multichannel through.

a word of warning: Prolonged use of earbuds is one of the most common reasons for hearing damage. It's very easy to play them at dangerously high levels due to their nature.

I'm not sure where the OP needs 5.1 optical out... Toslink is totally outdated as tech and hardly any hardware supports it anymore.

https://us.creative.com/p/sound-blaster/sound-blaster-x3 also has usb-c connectivity

I'm just saying that don't be lazy and hunt for different distros. Pick a vanilla Ubuntu or somethiing and install the DE you want. It's always a risk to go distro hopping, they may be small and badly maintained distros that end up giving you only headaches. In my experience it's best to keep...

If the audio jack has a hum on a new device, take it to service. Or do what I did and extract the audio through your monitor to the active speakers. That way your sounds work even if you switch devices/inputs running the monitor. I was surprised to see that the audio out of my new M1 MBP is...

Linux is inherently much safer than Windows. It doesn't run 100 unnecessary processes on the background and users are not administrators by default so no, it's not only about obscurity. But it does help to have only 0,1% of the attacks windows has so it's a no brainer to use it especially when...

You could always run a hackintosh... But to be honest I think the 800 dollar M1 mac mini is actually great bang for buck at the moment. I have the M1 MBP and I love it. Fast, never gets hot even when at full load, 20 hour battery life... Having said that, it's linux dude! You can shape the UI...

Unless the OP wants to keep fixing the malware, pups and viruses on regular basis, OS change is required. Old people are typically the worst, they click on everything. Especially if they use some sort of social media.

Answer to 1st question: No, Microsoft disabled that. And to the second one: Do what I did to my parents and in-laws. Set up a linux for them and live without worry of them messing it up with malware and viruses - or unintentional upgrades.

It's pretty but from China...

The standard BT connection is way too laggy even to watch a movie let alone fast action gaming

Then it's an external device, the manager does not affect it.

You have it attached to the internal PCI? If not, you don't need any modem manager.

Nothing has broken for you perhaps. For others things may be very much different. And we're not discussing about the app that's been developed only because Windows is fundamentally bad in this aspect.

It's a hack when it's not a built in feature that the general consumer can use as a normal part of the OS. Like windowblinds. Easy to install etc. but 99,9% of Windows users don't even know about it and things can break when you use it.

When you start to hack windows like that you risk breaking things. You can't even disable certain services because they're intentionally built so that non-related things break if you try to disable them.

Microsoft does the same to open formats, breaking compatibility intentionally.

A lot of people have apps accumulated on their PC that they no longer have installation media / pass keys available for. And typically all those break if you just copy them on another machine.

I'm not sure how you don't see that updates should have total transparency and the user should be able to control what is done and when. The user should be able to control his computer, not use a system that hides who knows what under the hood. Also, using Windows online is like running at a...

You can make polite suggestions like 'active work hours' but Microsoft can boot your computer at will and install any updates they want at will. Every new version of Windows gives the end user less and less control and this is a fact.

Bluetooth will be extremely laggy unless the low latency protocol is used - and that doesn't work out of the box with Windows.

You don't have the freedom to install whatever you want on Windows. You can't even dictate when your updates are loaded and your OS booted. Then again, I can run 90% of Windows programs on linux if I want to.

Windows is not disposable because of the horrible registry. Programs stop working.

Freedom on windows? LOL. Linux is freedom, with Windows you're a slave of Microsoft.

This is correct. However there are some apps that enable really large tempo changes without garbling up the sound. Audacity can change it well, but not as well as some specialized apps. At least last time I tried. I don't recall the name of the app but I found one where you could basically slow...

They copy linux/mac desktop but still fail to make it as easy to use.

Simple tone control circuit can be bought from Ebay for a couple of bucks, good point.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-sound-equalizers/

So what? You shared your familyalbum free willingly probably to Facebook anyway and anything worth while (passwords etc) are much easier encrypted by themselves than risking losing the entire drive.

Well this is Windows and the first time it fails you, you'll regret it. Self made cryptoattack lol. I have never encrypted a personal use computer, just too much hassle for nothing. All the data that needs to be kept secure is already encrypted anyway through means of methods of storage and...

Heh, encryption in most cases only locks people out of their own data and is never needed for protection in reality. Work computer? Completely understand encrypting it. Home... not worth the trouble.

Google cloud engine does seem to hold the login pretty well for me.

Then you also need tricks, you have to create 'virtual output lines' which route the sound to multiple outputs. https://vb-audio.com/Cable/ Experiment at own risk...

Sabrent USB Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter for PC [v4.0 Class 2 with Low Energy Technology] (BT-UB40) has had good reviews on Amazon.

Yep, the USB2 spec has a maximum range of 16 feet, anything above that is either flaky or non-working without an active cable. 16 feet is easily exceeded if across the room -use is needed.

If your headsets connect through BT it's not possible to connect more than one at a time by default. You need to do extra tricks such as: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-connect-multiple-bluetooth-speakers-4173788

A longer extension might need an active cable (it has a built in signal booster)

Only problem with built in mics is that they often pick up keyboard clatter etc to an annoying level.

Separate. I'm thinking to set up my Rock64 as pihole also, to filter ads on mobile devices that lack proper adblocks.