Ok first things first, so I decided to switch to Unbuntu from windows, I wiped the drive and installed Ubuntu 20.4LTS. For the first week or so everything was good but then all of a sudden I noticed that when playing video there was screen tearing and screen tearing when scrolling through web pages. So I did some research and realized that I was using Ubuntu's built in third party video graphics driver called nouveau, so I went into "software and updates" and under "additional drivers" I installed Nvidia's proprietary software which fixed the issue.
So now starting about a couple of days ago I'm now having audio issues. When I'm on the internet and I'm watching youtube the audio sounds totally fine except it will stutter about once every 40 seconds or so, it's totally random. When I play music offline the music will sound horrible though! When I play music offline the audio sounds degraded and distorted, but keep in mind when I stream a song on youtube the audio sounds fine it'll just stutter here and there. I have been doing research on the internet trying to fix this issue on my own but and this point I really need help? I believe one of the things I tried was purging alsa and reinstalling it, I think thats what I did, but that didn't fix it.
By the way, I did boot up from an Ubuntu live disk and guess what, the audio was 100% fine, so this proves a glitch has occured.
So I'm a lifetime windows user and windows will inevitably glitch and the best way to fix it is to do a system restore, one time the touchpad on my windows laptop quit working so all I had to do was do a system restore to an earlier stable point and boom problem solved. Problem is linux has no built in system restore (why would linux not have a built in system restore because I believe it would easily solve this weird sound issue I'm having?), I have indeed learned of third party software called timeshift and I was going to install it but I thought that I would just wait a little while before I did, I am now seriously regretting it because it seems linux does experience the same bugs and glitches just like windows does which is why I can't believe linux doesn't have a built in system restore function.
So how can I fix this audio issue without having to wipe the drive and reinstall the operating system? Also, do any of you have experience with timeshift, would a simple system restore fix this issue like I suspect it would? I have a question about timeshift, does it work just like windows system restore, for instance, say I encountered a glitch on 2019/05/26 and I choose to restore to a point on 2019/05/06, 20 days before I encountered the glitch, but say on 2019/05/23 I downloaded a bunch of music and pics, now windows would restore back to the chosen restore point and the music and pics I had downloaded on 2019/05/23 would still be there. Does timeshift work just like this?
