From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:59:56 -0000 (UTC), Gremlin wrote:   
      
   > CrudeSausage    
   > news:6951cbc1$0$25$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:30:56   
   > GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:   
   >   
   >> What bothers me is that while the speakers on this laptop are powerful,   
   >> they only get the high volumes if I use an application called Dolby   
   >> Access. Without it, I lose about 50% of the volume. It's doable, but   
   >> it's kind of a dealbreaker.   
   >   
   > I don't really use the speakers this laptop has that much. I bluetooth   
   > over to the stereo or a dedicated speaker and use that instead.  I don't   
   > have any specific issues with the speakers built into this laptop mind   
   > you. I've just never really been into using them for loud audio and I   
   > like my music loud on occasion.   
      
   Well, it turns out that Pop_OS! allows you to overamplify the speakers   
   rather easily. In the end, it seems like that's more or less all that   
   Dolby Atmos is: getting a higher volume by amplifying the volume by   
   default. What my volume would be like at 50% in Windows with Dolby Atmos   
   is 100% in Linux, but I can just make the high limit 150% and the result   
   is the same. That one supposed deal breaker is no longer an issue.   
      
   More importantly than that, ever since I've had Linux installed on the   
   machine, I haven't faced the most annoying issue of all: fTPM stutering.   
   Unless you face it several times a day, you can't really imagine how   
   annoying it really is.   
      
      
      
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   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
   Pop_OS!   
      
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