Is it normal for linux to have horrible sync issues with sound? Generally what I see is sound laging behind motion, and fairly badly. Tuxracer, for instance, is completely borked this way on every box ...

Once upon a time (and it wasn't that long ago), if you wanted to do real, low-latency work with audio on Linux, you faced serious trouble. That's no longer true. PipeWire 1.0, an audio/video software ...