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Linux is infuriating at times, like when you have a nice mouse or capture card that requires special software or drivers, but compromising my values for the sake of convenience feels pathetic when Windows really isn't that much better. I use Windows when I must and nothing more.
Linux can be frustrating when something goes wrong, but at least you know it was by accident (either a bug in the software or a mistake on your part). In contrast, when proprietary software goes wrong it's often due to some megacorporation deliberately trying to fuck you over, and that's what's really infuriating!
Yeah, the only issues I have are virtual mics to filter background noise on Discord. I have a program that does it, but I lose control over playing music as well (I have a solution through Helvum, but I have to do the specific audio paths every boot for Firefox -> Discord, and I can't individually control the volume. Plus the path dies every time I pause the music).
But it was equally as frustrating to get it set up on windows with virtual cables as it has been to try to get virtual cables to work on Linux, so it's a push there. Everything else has been basically as easy, give or take some of the learning curves of a new OS, and can be attributed to user error.
Dual boot has been nice. Both work how I want them to, 95% of the time, and if one is giving me issues in the moment, the other is likely to work. I do use Linux wayyy more rn tho.
Your looking for easy effects. It plumbs into the system audio amd creates both a virtual out and input and has every filter you could dream of. I use it both for APO curves on my headphones and then noise removal, gate, and dessing on mic
That's what someone suggested to me and got me 90% of the way there. The remaining issue is that, on Windows, I had a virtual cable that took browser audio and added it to the discord input so I could individually control volume, and I cannot find a way to do that. I tried to do virtual cables prior to all of this, and just could not get it to work, frustratingly. But, I had equivalent amounts of issues just getting it set up on Windows in the first place, so I'm not super worried about it.
Now I just use Helvum to map the audio from Firefox into the Discord input, but I have to do it every time I log on, and skipping a song or pausing it kills it and I have to redo it in Helvum again. Minor inconvenience, I just don't have the will to fix it rn.
Ah yeah, that's how I handle piping audio in the Discord as well it is unfortunate that it can't remember the connection
Yeah it's a whole thing. The learning curve is so steep with Linux on this kinda thing, cause you can't really just play with settings like you can on Windows. Like I just got Skyrim Nolvus running on it, and it took me, legitimately, 20 hours and multiple reinstalled to get it to go. Idk what was even different when it worked lol, but it works and that's what matters!
I have been parroting how easy it is to just swap for a regular user, tho. Shit installed in like...12 minutes and does 90% of what anyone would ever want out of a PC, no issue.
I can't figure out Discord push to talk on Hyprland because of the X11 stuff. Regarding capture cards, I only record on Windows, anything else on that OS feels slow. There is a delightful snappiness to Linux, and adding animations don't seem to cause any chugging.
Also opening power shell terminal is awful,
1 hold super 2 press x 3 release super 4 press a
It loads slowly.
Windows does not want you accidentally being productive. Bleh.