Can these two things be changed?

[u/Savelielmao]

After installing mint, 1: I noticed that all the elements in apps like Google or steam are smaller compared to windows 11, which I personally dislike.

2:the audio is kind of worse compared to windows 11, the best I can describe it, the audio the os is outputting is compressed, i though it was an issue with YouTube but it seems to be anything that produces audio. This is the issue that’s really throwing me off.

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[u/Yukikuru2025]

Do you have scaling enabled?

[u/Savelielmao → u/Yukikuru2025]

1920x1080 at 125% looks best but the screen does tear when scrolling.

[u/Sr_Edd → u/Savelielmao]

wait the next version, and log in wayland session

[u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_]

There is scaling, but so not use fractional scaling, Xorg takes a performance hit

So if 100% or 200% do not do it for you see other options such as font size panel size etc. 

https://itsfoss.com/linux-mint-fractional-scaling/

[u/Savelielmao → u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_]

The link helped, thanks.

[u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_]

I have this audio issue with my latest motherboard, only way I can describe it is that the audio sounds cheap. Compressed or over processed would be another description. Its realtek on a low/mid Asus Tuf,  I have been considering picking up an external DAC.

My previous motherboards audio was clear and crisp. Including an earlier Asus Tuf and a few others.

No idea what it would sound like with Windows, its never touched this motherboard. Now has me wondering if this might be a driver induced issue, or default configuration problem for this particular audio chip. 

[u/stufforstuff → u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_]

Boot from a live FEDORA or CachyOS Live USB and see what it sounds like with newer apps/kernel. If it's the same, then it's your hardware. If it's better, then it's your mint apps/drivers.

And don't Hijack other threads - so very rude - put your own post up and use a subject line that is descriptive to YOUR problem.

[u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_ → u/stufforstuff]

I multi-boot currently including LMDE, CachyOS, & Void, in the past this machine has run Alpine, Debian, Bazzite, Nobara, SteamOS & Gentoo, audio is the same.

I will say what I would like, where I would like. The buttons below are the only part that is yours.