For Skyrim I’ve had pretty good luck with just adding Vortex mod manager as a non steam game, running it with Proton and using mods that way

Discord cant stream desktop audio at all on Linux aside from sharing a tab’s audio if you’re using Discord in a web browser. There are custom clients (like discord-screenaudio which OP mentioned) capable of doing this to some extent but they’re based on the web version of discord and lack features / can be buggy. Also these options don’t have hardware encoding so any fast moving content will become a choppy mess for the viewers.

The other alternative on Linux is to just route the app’s audio into your mic source. Others will hear it but it will come out as if its your mic so even those not watching the stream will have to hear the stream audio unless they mute you.

Even when you’re not intentionally plagiarizing, Turnitin may catch something that could screw you over when the assignment is submitted. Sometimes you have a chance to see what Turnitin analyzes and resubmit the assignment but OP is saying they can only submit it once so they want to use the Grammarly checker first.

Yes, SteamOS does count as Linux. Android does not. The Android and iOS Steam app is just for social features / store, not for playing games so neither show up on the survey.

SteamOS Holo, which is what the Steam Deck uses, makes up 42% of the Linux systems in the survey results.

They are “going hard” the way I see it. Without Valve doing legwork behind the scenes and collaborating with anticheat developers we wouldn’t even have Apex Legends running on Linux like we’ve had for a year and a half. They’ve been talking about wanting to use Linux as a viable PC gaming platform to escape Microsofts lockdown of their platform since the days of Steam Machines when Windows 8 and the new store app were giving bad signs.

Either way Valve would be silly not to provide a compatible way to use Windows on the Deck. Even though the situation is much better these days, they know very well that a lot of enthusiast PC gamers would be dismissive of the Deck if Windows couldn’t work properly on it and that word of mouth would bring less confidence in the product.

Well yeah it pisses them off because they’re here to read people talk about their experiences and give opinions, not for someone to paste ChatGPT output. If they wanted that they could’ve just used ChatGPT themselves.

It seems like you’re well aware people are annoyed by it but do it anyways. Why?

It’s vey pretty and clean but the default workflow just does not work for me. Having to dig up extensions for basic window management features which end up breaking with major updates is a pain. Also while gnome-tweaks is cool and all there are plenty of settings that should just be in the main settings app rather than being “tweaks” imo.

Overall I’d much prefer KDE Plasma, out of the box it has a lot of features and ways to configure it through the main settings app to fit my preferred way of doing things. While many see the plethora of options as a con, I’d rather have them there and implemented with the option to just disable what I don’t use rather than installing extensions to get what’s missing.

GNOME is great for people who enjoy doing things the GNOME way but if you need more than that it’s just a hassle to configure and maintain for me personally.

Depends on what you need. Personally, over the years I’ve been inclined to at least try a FOSS alternative when available and have found some really cool projects by doing that. It’s also cool to see those projects evolve over time and trade blows with the “official” apps they’re competing with.

However in some cases it just might not be practical to do so, especially if the alternative isn’t mature enough to rely on. I’d say at least take a look at the alternatives and give em a fair shot.

I will mention in the case of projects like WebCord you’re essentially getting a cut down version of Discord, with some extra features added in some cases. Basically custom clients like WebCord have to be based on the web version of Discord (essentially what you get when you open it in a browser) and because of that will be missing features like Krisp noise reduction and hardware encoding for video which can be dealbreakers for some people. Those features and some others are only available with the native Discord app which alternative clients cannot be built on top of. So there’s a hard limitation there as to how much these alternatives can accomplish.

There are others like Ripcord which are entirely custom clients, not just loading web Discord and modding it. But something like Ripcord will be missing a lot of features that even the web version of Discord has, so not really an option unless you just need basic voice and text chat stuff.

Honestly I’d recommend going to ~/.config/obs-studio and making a backup of your scenes then deleting the originals. Start up OBS and set things up again.

I’ve had similar issues when switching between KDE Plasma and sway, if I left the old scenes there OBS would break after switching enviornments. Once I deleted the scenes it would work fine.

I should also mention that for creating the pactl virtual sinks and sources, I just have a simple bash script that runs the pactl commands when I log in so that it happens automatically, that way I dont have to manually create them every time I boot up my computer.

For the second part, using separate audio tracks in OBS, I’ve had a good time just using pactl commands to create the virtual devices, route it in qpwgraph and then save that as a preset. When qpwgraph launches at startup it loads that routing how I left it.

For discord screensharing there’s alternatives like discord-screenaudio and webcord (which has a flag you can use to enable audio sharing). Both of those are able to send audio to the proper stream audio through discord so your friends don’t hear it through your mic, but they have to be based on the web version of discord so there’s no hardware encoding. If your plan is to stream games and stuff, fast motion will cause the stream to be very choppy for viewers. So in that case using the native discord app and routing audio through your mic source is kinda the only way to do it as of now, unfortunately.

Thanks for sharing these links, I’ve been getting into making shell scripts more and those look like a good spot to browse through for inspiration 🤙

Unless I’m misunderstanding, that’s all related to those KDE packages. I’d say if you’re a heavy user of Plasma or apps relying on those KDE packages you might as well enable it.

Up to your comfort level though, personally I don’t mind for stuff like that. On KDE’s community site they have this showing what telemetry is collected for Plasma.

Similar experience here with Arch. The only time I broke stuff was when trying out alternative kernels but even then all you’d have to do is use nvidia-dkms and it works fine with multiple kernels installed.

For some reason it infuriates me that they compare ChromeOS to “other Linuxes” as a plural when they could’ve just said Linux distributions

Out of curiosity, did you download the nvidia drivers with the distro’s package manager or did you go to nvidia’s website and do there installer thing? When I had an nvidia card I had plenty of problems over the years but I specifically remember that using the installer from nvidia’s site caused all kinds of hell to break loose haha

On many popular distros there are graphical apps preinstalled for that. The distribution maintainers have repositories with common packages to make it so that you can open an app store and install programs from one place rather than going to different websites and downloading installers.

Haven’t really felt the need to. On Linux ad blocking + common sense has worked out fine. When I was still using Windows I just relied on Windows Defender since around the Windows 8.1 days, but either way my time downloading .exe files from sketchy sites is long behind me.

The Valve one has been the most exciting for me. AFAIK Valve has been thinking about the issues with Windows controlling PC gaming since Windows 8 first came out. The Steam Machines were a flop at the time but in recent years they’ve been able to maks big moves for Linux gaming and instead of giving up has been doubling down on the importance of it.

I’m well aware of its capabilities and it can do a lot, undoubtedly. I just imagine that if they’re going to a social media site to ask a question the goal is to have a person give them advice rather than being told to take the question elsewhere.

But it is what it is, my reply wasn’t meant to be a diss on ChatGPT, it’s a cool tool. Just personal preference at the end of the day. For some things I could see myself using ChatGPT for convenience, for other things where I’m not so hellbent on saving time I find it much more fulfilling to research and gain a better understanding through my own searches or from interacting with others and getting different human perspectives on a topic.