Linux for Beginners: Sharing My Experience and Lessons Learned

Changed the title as this thread has grown arms and legs.

Firmware is installed and the system can see two ports but none of them works as a line in.

Pulse Audio, which I installed hoping it would help, turned out to be the cause of the slow recording speed. It seams it causes a conflict with ALSA.

I have tried to get Pipewire working but I cannot get the pipewire.service running. I am told the service does not exist even when I can see the config file in the correct place. I have uninstalled it and re-installed it without success.

Also, I managed to kill Gnome desktop somehow with my experiments. I was remoting in via windows, when I remotely restarted the Linux machine I was presented with a tty command line prompt on the Linux machine :-( fortunately I was able to run tasksel from the tty1 line to get it back, and most of my programmes appear to be intact.

Is there a command I could have typed to relaunch GDM? I tried startx but that did not work.

I must remember to run timeshift more often as I thought I was going to lose a couple of hours work.

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Appears I should have used "sudo systemctl restart gdm3" never mind I will note that down for future mishaps lol
 
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