I had that experience, too. Then, some years back, I just stopped having issues with audio in Linux, it Just Worked.
But, maybe a year ago, my desktop machine started this thing where there is noise when the audio driver is active (I’m guessing, I don’t really know). That is, if the system plays a sound, for some seconds after that, I’ll hear noise from the speakers. Then it cuts off, until the next sound is played.
I’ve done some searching on the issue, without useful results, everything is about the power saving setting, which has had no effect for me. And the issue those people are having is different than mine, and I haven’t hit on quite the right search terms to distinguish.
Yeah that’s not the issue, that’s what I was talking about in my comment. My issue is different.