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  • The MT7902 WiFi/Bluetooth Chip by Mediatek Corp. does not (and probably never will) have any official driver support. There are some unsuccessful community attempts to get it working, but nobody actually managed to pull it off.

    G6 Soundcard works for simple pass-through but SBX features aren’t natively enabled, you need a Windows install with Soundblaster Connect to enable the functionality and load the settings into the onboard memory of the card.
    Linux “supports” Dolby Atmos but it sound mostly like dogwater if not combined with Atmos mixed audio.


  • LouNeko@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux Users Switching Back to Linux
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    2 months ago

    >Be me
    >Build new PC
    >"Maybe I’ll try out Linux. "
    >Fairly popular 2 year old Motherboard
    >Integrated WiFi Module no drivers available
    >Integrated Bluetooth Module no drivers available
    >No support for $170 Sound Card
    >4 hours of troubleshooting later
    >Linux more bloated with dependencies and packages from troubleshooting than your grandmas browser extensions
    >“Fuck this”
    >Nuke Partition
    >Install Windows
    >Shit instantly just works
    >Use Linux partition drive for backups






  • At least for me, it does. It got so bad that watching a Twitch stream caused my phone to overheat to the point of freezing up and turning off. In comparison, the offical Twitch app doesn’t cause the same issue, neither does Brave. Watching YouTube on Firefox drains the battery basically 2% per minute. OK, my phone is older and runs a custom rom, but other apps run flawlessly.


  • Unfortunatly this wasn’t Android exclusive. The Firefox Android App sucked ass in the past and will probably suck ass for the foreseeable future. There are currently multiple support and Reddit threads going about insane battery drain and heat build-up caused by the Firefox App (even when suspended and battery optimized). The UI is barebones and lacks basic features like closing tabs from the navigation bar or opening new tabs by scrolling left on the rightmost tab. Even something as simple as having actual tabs akin to the desktop version is not present, instead you have a tab list or grid view that barely manages to load previews for each open website. The native video player also hasn’t been touched in a literal decade.

    All in all Firefox Android is a horrible experience that has only the ability to use extensions going for it.