I’ll have to look into this! thank you, I was getting around it by using my 2012 Macbook :D

honestly understandable, I only talked about the kernel since in order to compile and install the audio drivers I had to use kernel version 16.2, whereas I was using 8.1, and although I know there isn’t LTS, I was using the “ubuntu LTS” distro

2017 intel based, running an ubuntu LTS flavor.