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Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’ve been on Mint for about two months now. Took some getting used to and there was a pretty large chunk of stuff to learn, but I’ve got most things figured out now. AlternativetTo.net has been a lifesaver and has helped me find replacements for most programs I use regularly. Though I still desperately miss paint.net.

Now I just need to figure out why my audio crackles sometimes when I’m playing games.

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LoopDigger@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I get the audio crackle also, been trying to figure it out for a while. Some people seem to have solved it by disabling power saving on the audio card. Didn’t work for me but might work for you.

cat /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/powersave

If it returns a “1” then power save is active

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- Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s been an unfortunately difficult problem for me to troubleshoot since it only happens occasionally. I appreciate the help though, I’ll give disabling it a shot (it was enabled.)
  
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i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’ve not used paint.net so this might be completely off the mark, but Pinta is a good little paint program which might be a reasonable alternative.

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- Delascas@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Second vote for Pinta. About the closest thing to paint.net there is for a Linux desktop . . .
  
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- Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah, Pinta is currently what I’m using as a replacement. It’s more or less what I need, but it’s not perfect and the UI is difficult to navigate and leaves a lot to be desired (though tbf that might be my paint.net muscle memory fighting me.)
  
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