Continuing into a second week of sporadic but gradually increasing use of my new Linux laptop and I am just continually shocked by how staggeringly bad the experience is at every level. The new indignity is that the version of Audacity I installed from the snap store cannot play audio. This is not as bad as it could be because oddly in this case I didn't install Audacity to play audio, I installed it to visually inspect audio waveforms, but this is still pretty bad.
@mcc Sympathies. Audio on Linux is always problematic. 🙁 The only way to get a reliable Linux laptop without a lot of tinkering is to buy one from a firm that supports it.🙁🙁🙁