Am I the only one around here who hates this dual volume stuff?

[tkn]

But what I can say for a fact is every time I showed UM to somebody over the course of the holidays that one of the thing that I've mostly heard was: "more volume please"

So why didn't you turn up the volume of your speakers instead ?

Besides that, Could it be that you demonstrated UM with a youtube video on firefox , which then resulted in a drop in volume ?

Map volume keys from 0 to >100

That seems to be a known issue with firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/918780 Also check this (important) You can enter about:config in the addressbar of firefox and increase the default volume: search and select media.default_volume change 1.0 to 1.5 or whatever you like Maybe this is a nice workaround for the moment ( if it works at all): https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?302379-Pulse-Audio-(pavucontrol)-saving-volume-levels-for-individual-clients If all …