I suggest checking journalctl , running from the terminal to see if Audacity spits out any messages before crashing
In the meantime, you can try Ocenaudio, it's like a simpler version of Audacity
#Audacity and *city just won't work
hexed raptor
The old versions are here https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-old.html
It goes all the way back to v2.0.0
sudo? that's strange