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They say sex is good and all, but I bet they never received a reply like this before. I'm going to respond one by one.
I mostly used AMD Software for instant replay, I miss this loads. Tried replay-sorcery like 3 times, failed all 3 times. I gained more knowledge since, fixed discord's screenshare, so I might give it another shot, but I also heard that you can get instant replay with OBS somehow.
I'd like some alternative to fancontrol, I know I could set fanspeed in the bios, idk why I don't. But I had a nice lil software that managed fans, now I don't.
Piper also doesn't support my mouse. It does however support the one I just switched from a month ago...
Idk what Realtek does, but I never had any sound related problems on windows. AKA it just worked, I'd like it back pls. I now use pipewire-pulse. Made Virtual Surround sink, loving the customization, hating the documentation. I'd still like to fix the bandwidth (I read somewhere that it's limited by default) and mess around with EQs, my lead is AutoEq.
OBS just doesn't work. But I remember it barely working on windows as well. It's popular, I can probably fix it.
I already have qpwgraph, but I don't have a use for it, I just used it to visualize, and fix connections when they're wrong. Might do some soundboard fun later with it, or in-game mic trolling :p
Thanks for the links tho, I'll look into what I can utilize. But don't get me wrong I love linux, there is just so little support, paired with such a steep learning curve.
rant: I'm not using linux for long, and I have a bunch of stuff to get working. Password manager, find nice image and PDF viewers (web browsers feels cheap), fix recording (obs can't capture and barely can anything else), get (or make) a nice theme, try out tiling window managers, set-up WMs so I don't have to dual boot anymore. While don't even get me started on stuff I have no Idea how works on linux. Like grep's powerful, how does regex work, links?, everything in /etc, bash script. hopefully I can get these answered in 2024. I hear the memes that this is the "year of linux desktop"; well it's certainly for me.
Basically the same as in Windows: Keepass with manual sync between devices(using Syncthing for example) or Bitwarden (Vaultvarden if like you like to selfhost and don't have enterprise account).
I'd use a desktop environment defaults, but https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications
Awk and sed are great too. Sed will also turn 50 this year.
It's magic. You can(and should) test your regex here https://regex101.com/
Which distro do you use? I don't really have much sound issues here and I have a pretty exotic setup.
Yes, I use OBS for that. The feature is called "Replay Buffer" and I have it running with no issues with hardware encoding. I would recommend you use the OBS flatpak, depending on your distro you might also want to use Steam in a Flatpak to make things easier.
I'm not aware of a software that controls all fans but I didn't really look since I just let them do what they want. CoreCtrl can do the GPU fan but I also leave that alone.
You might have some luck requesting support for your mouse/keyboard on their git page, maybe support can be added.
What does not work?
There's no bandwidth limit on Pipewire that I'm aware of. The default sampling rate is 48000 if you mean that but it's a sensible default and you probably don't want to change it.
AutoEq sounds good. EasyEffects definitely can do your EQ and much much more.
The learning curve can be steep but don't be afraid to ask, there's a lot of helpful people on here. Also most Github/Gitlab projects might look intimidating but they also gladly offer support for applications there.
Okular is included with KDE and is pretty competent.
Those are not strictly needed in order to "use" Linux but if you want to learn about them you there's a lot of resources for them out there. ChatGPT is also pretty useful in helping with bash scripts/commands since they're sometimes hard to read.
Thank you. I'll look into this "Replay Buffer" and OBS in general, as it doesn't work atm. I'm on Arch, and when I plugged in my laptop to the TV via HDMI it didn't play any sound. With some brute force commands (can't remember, could maybe check
history) I managed to play a static noise on the TV, but I couldn't get it recognized as an audio device. Gave up after a while as we just wanted to watch the movie, so we found another way instead of me holding up my family with debugging.