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by zelphirkalt 820 days ago
Your experience does not invalidate my experience. I have had the same bad behavior across multiple versions of Windows, using multiple different loudspeakers, headsets and headphones, all the while it worked perfectly well in GNU/Linux distributions, where I can set volume like a sane person would, instead of like on Windows, where I need to micro management between 1 and 5 out of 100.

The fact, that this is a well known issue, that basically all my friends know about, having it right now, and in the past using various audio output devices themselves, tells me, that it is not a "me problem", but actually something that in general does not work so well in Windows. They have all accepted, that Windows volume mixer simply does this and that there is nothing that they can do. They are not regular GNU/Linux users like I am, so they are stuck with that.

Consider, that you might be in some kind of bubble, with your fortunate experiences. Consider, that maybe you did not understand the problem I am describing well. Since you are talking about "external amplifiers", makes me doubt, that you understand correctly what I am talking about. Note, that I have already stated, that I do not put volume externally to any maximum, like someone claimed earlier. So either you claim, that I am lying, or you do not understand what I wrote.

Perhaps you should rather ask questions about the issue and try to be helpful, instead of going on assuming and pretending the problem does not exist, when it very much does and you simply seem blissfully unaware of it.

I also find your tone quite in conflict with this site's rules. It is quite rude.

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I think it does invalidate it. Working for MSPs and contracting I've seen more in 10 years than someone at one company sees in their entire career. I've never heard of this issue ever. 100s of users > than your one anecdote sorry.
Meh, not really. The same way I could claim that yours is also just one anecdote. Otherwise we would be in the business of comparing how grand an anecdote we each can come up with.

But how about we add more anecdotes from other people?

You will find a lot of posts online, if you search for something like: "windows volume mixer too loud". For example:

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/lfi6yr/default_s...

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/e7j44w/minimum... (ooops, this person even mentions the 5% like I did, haha)

[3]: https://superuser.com/questions/1760843/how-do-i-make-the-wi...

[4]: https://superuser.com/questions/432040/how-do-i-lower-the-ha... (yep, juuust like I remember, even back to Windows XP this issue goes)

As another data point, one friend of mine bought an external audio interface, because of these and other annoyances in Windows and now regulates the volume using that.