The road from Windows to Linux. KDE 6.2 is the way to go in the right direction. The big problem is sound quality under Linux

Firefox under Wayland with the Estonian keyboard active using AltGr-Enter does not open the link from the URL panel in a new tab, but opens it in the same tab. I've gotten used to this combination over the years, where I don't have to open a new tab first to open a new page. And this is a problem, because in some places it leads to the loss of data entered into the form (I just almost lost the draft of this article, well FF asked if I was sure that I wanted to leave the page…)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1827615 – here is a description of the problem, it works everywhere except in Weyland. I offered 20 € for solving it (obviously it’s simple, because under X11 everything works as it should), but it hasn’t been solved yet.

Problem with KDE and Wayland: windows do not remember in what position/size and on what monitor they were opened before rebooting. As a result, if you have two+ monitors, when you reboot, windows open completely randomly on different monitors and in different states (not full screen, narrow size) and you have to manually drag them to the desired screen and expand the windows to an acceptable width (Telegram, Skype ). Error: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329

On a laptop with one monitor, there are no problems remembering the full-screen opening size, but Telegram and Skype always open in the center of the screen, although I move them to the left.

Big problem. Sound.

I installed openSUSE with KDE on my combat laptop. And I immediately heard that even on YouTube the sound was disgusting. Under Windows the sound is rich (as far as one can say about laptop tweeters), but under Linux it’s like coming from a gramophone. Rebooted my desktop PC with Sound Blaster Zu into Windows. And it’s also terribly flat under Linux. And I was also wondering why I was so uncomfortable listening to music under Linux, although I configured the Easy Effects equalizer to my liking…

Posted on the forum: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/bad-sound-quality-linux-vs-windows/179032/50. In short, the sound drivers for Windows, which are provided by the laptop/sound card manufacturer, contain sound improvement parameters: Dolby, surround sound, settings for the tweeters of this particular laptop model (the drivers for each model have their own XML file, if you are interested, there there is a link on the forum) and so on. Linux produces a raw, unprocessed stream. And this is hellishly sad, because I couldn’t achieve a similar sound with any JamesDSP either on a laptop or on a desktop. 🙁

I wasn’t too lazy and wrote to Creative Labs, saying, let’s support Linux. As expected, they answered that they have no plans yet; and it's clear that Linux has too small a share of desktop use to bother.

To summarize, we can say that Linux is developing and being updated quite quickly (in particular KDE). I have no idea what to do with the sound yet. To watch the movie, you need to reboot into Windows. I can't listen to the gramophone. 🙁