Every DE makes a sound applet of some sort to control levels, I just find
most suck, or are at least diminished from pavucontrol in the name of
trying to make it "simple". Sometimes we need beyond simple.
That said, for a few years pavucontrol would run amok occasionally grabbing
30-40gb of
Michael, thanks for boosting my trust in Mint.
Yes, pavucontrol is available via the regular sources and works perfectly, just
as smooth as on the Mac. I only wondered why they don’t install it by default,
but I guess for some it would just be clutter.
I got my sound running — I’m not sure