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Re:NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Lin... by formerly_proven on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:14AM (#23880575)
Are you implying I can't do any sound I/O without having a driver for said I/O? Preposterous.
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Re:NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Lin... by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:30PM (#23884107)
That's trivially correct. You can't get anything on a screen without a driver for your graphics card. You can't get any input from a keyboard without a driver for the keyboard.

However, Linux comes with drivers for more or less every audio interface that is possible to use on Linux. That is, there are essentially no 3rd party drivers - it either works with the drivers in the kernel(1) or it doesn't.

(1) depending on how your distro built the drivers. for the most part, things are OK.

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