Evkob

Hey don't apologize for offering free help to a stranger online! It's much appreciated. uname -r returns "6.7.0-zen3-1-zen", but like I said I had this issue with the standard Linux kernel as well.

Nothing stands out to me when I run dmesg in terms of errors. I'm not sure which part is the audio hardware chipset, so here is the output relating to audio. I'm running both the built-in CPU audio and GPU audio through HDMI.

Edit: Forgot to add my ALSA and Pipewire packages. For ALSA I got:

alsa-card-profiles alsa-firmware alsa-lib alsa-plugins alsa-topology-conf alsa-ucm-conf alsa-utils lib32-alsa-lib lib32-alsa-plugins pipewire-alsa tinycompress

and for Pipewire:

gst-plugin-pipewire kpipewire libpipewire libwireplumber pipewire pipewire-audio pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse wireplumber

It wasn't, but this still doesn't fix the issue. I'm honestly perplexed and might just deal with triple reinstalling alsa-utils after every reboot. I'll probably start from a fresh install soon enough anyway :P

It definitely is! I'm a noob but I do know enough to read through the relevant Arch Wiki page before bothering people for help.

Sadly, everything on that page is either irrelevant to my issues or hasn't worked.

Nope, I've checked and I don't have any PulseAudio, JACK, or other audio packages that could interfere. This install has only ever used PipeWire for audio.

Could be kernel related, I don't know. That'd be quite over my head, but I've had this issue using both the standard linux kernel and the zen kernel.

I didn't see anything in journalctl's logs that relates to audio as far as I can tell.

Reinstalling alsa utils twice? Interesting and weird.

Want to know what's even more fun? I need to re-install alsa-utils thrice now after properly enabling pipewire.service like I did on that other comment thread :P

So this comment made me realize pipewire.service wasn't enabled (I had to use the command 'systemctl --now enable pipewire --user' as the ones you provided didn't work on my system.)

It's up and running now, but after a reboot I still have the same issue.

Yeah, I included that in the title, should have restated it in the body though!

OP wants to download Photoshop Elements, I highly doubt they want to do professional work. For casual use cases, GIMP is more than enough once you take 10-20 minutes to learn its quirks (if coming from Photoshop).

I'm really not one to criticize the work of unpaid and/or underpaid open-source devs, I know they're giving us the end result of countless hours of labour for free. But even I'll admit GIMP needed a redesign 10 years ago. It's kinda crazy that software used to create beautiful things looks like such shit, and just the UI has probably turned many people away from GIMP.

That's for sure one of the bigger constraints possible, and one I'm most familiar with as my first language isn't English. You can still usually find stuff though, although it might require private torrent trackers or Usenet.

Unless you have a specific constraint not mentioned in your post, it would probably just be a waste of time compared to just downloading an existing rip from a torrent site. Especially considering most stuff on Disney+ is fairly mainstream and should be easy to find.

Trying to rip from Disney rather than finding a source to download it would be more time-consuming and would likely end up with worse quality than what the various scene groups get out.

I've never used Usenet for anything and just wanted to save other curious people the hassle of searching it up, thanks for bringing actual knowledge into this!

For anyone else who has never heard of Tabula Rasa, it's a Usenet indexer.