>>223731
Yep, right around when Pulse started taking off. Either you had sound, or you didn't, and you probably had to map your audio devices differently in order to get working sound. It's been working fine for a decade now however. Funny enough, around the time it started working, was around the time multiple people around me, started having issues with sound on Windows, and no matter what drivers related to sound they installed or uninstalled, it still wouldn't just work.

If you use the new Arch installer or Ubuntu, you probably don't even need to installed the binary Nvidia driver on your own either. Probably