A week back, after a Zorin update, my USB lost power, so I thought I’d just switch to Ubuntu 22.04 based distros. And it seems all of them have the same problem…
When I play a video in the browser (tried Firefox and Brave) when it buffers, a noise (volume varies) would replace what I should hear.
I tried the following and nothing changes the problem:
- Go full PipeWire
- Go full Pulseaudio
- Disable powers saving options the tlp(?)
- Disable bluetooth from startup (saw some error about bluetooth when speaker started up)
The only think I can think of to do is to reinstall Zorin (the old working version, kept the installation USB) and not update the kernel. But then I worried about not getting the security updates.
From my quest for solutions, it seems some other folks might be having the noise issue (so machine/hardware specific, I’m guessing) but no one seems to have a solution that works…
It would be best to fix it on Ubuntu 22.04 (kernel 15.19?) or else I will have to go back to my old Zorin version (so the USB power would still work). In that case, can I downgrade the kernel (15.11) and still get the security upgrade? If not, would firewall + VPN be good enough for security?