u/freravgl

Hello, I run Fedora 44 KDE on the Dell 14 Plus and I want to try Void but I'm unsure whether audio will work on it because Fedora is the only distro that audio worked on out of the box. I like the idea of runit and partially find system-d too complicated so I'm open to troubleshooting if it comes to that.

Specs
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* Operating System: Fedora Linux 44

* KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4

* KDE Frameworks Version: 6.28.0

* Qt Version: 6.11.1

* Kernel Version: 7.1.8-200.fc44.x86\_64 (64-bit)

* Graphics Platform: Wayland

* Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 258V

* Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.9 GiB usable)

* Graphics Processor: Intel® Graphics

* Manufacturer: Dell Inc.

* Product Name: Dell 14 Plus DB14250 

Output of wpctl status
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~
❯ wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.6.8, sid@larp, cookie:1881362317]
 └─ Clients:
        33. uresourced                          [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:1908]
        34. WirePlumber                         [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:1922]
        42. WirePlumber [export]                [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:1922]
        43. kwin_wayland                        [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:1919]
        88. pipewire                            [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2181]
        89. libcanberra                         [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2105]
        90.                                     [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2105]
        95. plasmashell                         [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2117]
       102. libcanberra                         [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2117]
       103. xdg-desktop-portal                  [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2431]
       104.                                     [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2117]
       105. KDE Connect Daemon                  [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2329]
       106. WEBRTC VoiceEngine                  [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:129]
       107. WEBRTC VoiceEngine                  [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:129]
       108. Chromium input                      [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:194]
       109. wpctl                               [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:21646]

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      44. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio [alsa]
 │  
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  *   51. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio Speaker [vol: 0.15]
 │      52. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio Headphones [vol: 1.00]
 │      53. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output [vol: 1.00]
 │      54. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio HDMI / DisplayPort 2 Output [vol: 1.00]
 │      55. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output [vol: 1.00]
 │  
 ├─ Sources:
 │  *   56. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio SoundWire microphones [vol: 1.00]
 │      57. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio Headset Microphone [vol: 1.00]
 │  
 ├─ Filters:
 │  
 └─ Streams:

Video
 ├─ Devices:
 │      58. Integrated_Webcam_FHD               [v4l2]
 │      59. Integrated_Webcam_FHD               [v4l2]
 │      60. Integrated_Webcam_FHD               [v4l2]
 │      61. Integrated_Webcam_FHD               [v4l2]
 │      62. Integrated_Webcam_FHD: Integrat     [libcamera]
 │      63. Integrated_Webcam_FHD: Integrat     [libcamera]
 │  
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  
 ├─ Sources:
 │  *   91. Integrated_Webcam_FHD (V4L2)       
 │      93. Integrated_Webcam_FHD (V4L2)       
 │  
 ├─ Filters:
 │  
 └─ Streams:

Settings
 └─ Default Configured Devices:
         1. Audio/Source  alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-sof_sdw.HiFi__Mic__source

Basically, I tried openSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora on my laptop with dual boot and initially audio didn't work on either, but I decided to compromise and do a full disk install of Fedora since I mostly use headphones anyway. Then, out of nowhere, audio started working on Fedora and I still don't know why. I suspect the reason to be a blue "system reset" dialog that appeared when the Fedora live iso booted, which I skipped with the first install but didn't this time. It apparently configures BIOS settings but I'm not sure.

So basically, I'm genuinely unsure if I should even risk installing another distro but I have to get out of that illusion someday so I was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience. If so, do you recommend trying out void?

>!TLDR: Had a bad experience with audio but it was magically fixed by Fedora 44. Unsure about switching to void because the same thing might repeat again.!<