So I recently switched distros from Mint (which had some ancient version in the repository, I think it was 0.9.10 or something) to Arch and it seems like the editor has been given a bit of a facelift. I thought the old look was fine but I can get used to it, except for one thing: They look like this:

I'm fairly certain it's not supposed to look like that, and it's quite annoying, and I'd like to see if there's any way to make it look normal.

Hello,
I think there's nothing wrong here: we just switched from a raw audio wave representation (positive and negative) to a power envelope display (always positive): the meaningful information is still here, but occupying less display space. This changes a bit the habits but that should be OK...
Agreed?

I suppose. It's definitely going to take some getting used to.