Terrible sound and camera quality on Dell inspiron 3505 only on Ubuntu (dual boot with Windows 10)

Florianne

1/14/23, 4:47 PM

I just got a new computer, Dell inspiron 3505, and dual booted it Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 (for the Adobe Creative Suite). The sound is awful, very screechy and tin-canny, so I thought it was the built-in speakers, but it sounds the same with headphones. Then I realized the sound is good on Windows 10, so it's something about the sound quality with Ubuntu as an OS. I also noticed the camera quality (for video calls) and the microphone is much better on Windows 10.

I searched through askubuntu and basically Dell doesn't care to have some of their computers compatible with Linux (they literally suggest to not dual boot https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-15-7590-with-dualboot-sound-on-Ubuntu-is-terrible/td-p/7536332) so that's the root of the problem. A way around it is some suggestion about using PulseEffects, I fiddled with it but wasn't able to find a setup where the sound was better.

So what I need is 1- Is there a way to repare the sound or improve the sound quality on Ubuntu? 2- If it is through PulseEffects, what settings should I use?

This is my first Ubuntu machine so if anyone can help I'd appreciate more details than less as I am still kind of a beginner to this! Thank you!

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ChanganAuto

1/14/23, 4:56 PM

*Dell doesn't care to have their computers compatible with Linux so that's the root of the problem* This is factually wrong and defamatory. Dell has lots of models with Ubuntu preinstalled. That you chose one that isn't supported for Linux isn't Dell's problem.

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