Anyone stream from a linux distro?

[ts_cammer98]

Fuck you Windows! lol I spent my full day off failing to install windows 11 on my main PC. Turned on TPM, then my m.2 drive needed new firmware, then my antivirus was blocking the install. Now it just fails after 2 hours of updating and installing with nothing to tell me why. Could be a drive partition issue, but I dont have anything to back it up to so I can re format all my drives ect ect. Fuck you windows.

Anyone stream on Linux here? I installed linux mint on my 9 year old laptop and wow it runs better than it did new now. OBS works and all. The one thing I'm finding if I put my main computer on linux is that my stream deck would lose like half its capabilities and the other is that I use Cubase for music making and Linux can't do Cubase. Thinking maybe setting up for dual-boot and only boot windows 10 offline for music production and Linux for everything else.

Any other downfalls for using Linux besides my stream deck?

 

[ts_cammer98]

Oops lol I attempted to set up my pc for dual boot. Totally accidentally wrote over windows (even though I triple checked the partitions when giving linux a few partitions).

PANIC ENSUED as I made like a dozen attempts to put Windows back on with several different boot usbs. Now I can't seem to even put Windows 10 back on my PC. I might just need a boot drive to be made directly from a Windows pc using their software rather the bootable drives I've been making with linux idk....

Either way I had a few extra days off from streaming because of this and I just needed to prioritize getting something to work so I can have income. After a full day of fucking around and getting everything working, I think I like streaming with Linux better now. I might just accept defeat for my audio production needs and get used of some new stuff too. Linux is A LOT MORE WORK and A LOT MORE FUCKING AROUND. But the end result is far better I think. If you like to tweak things and don't mind torturing yourself from time to time, Linux is the way to go. Its far harder than I initially thought (I only used linux on systems that don't have 15 usb devices to talk to before this so I used to think this was easier)

After all the ups and downs, I think I'm satisfied now. (I think)

 

[goddesstex]

I installed linux last week. Only using OBS when it feels like working. Also found two versions of OBS one is flatpack and the other who knows

 

[ts_cammer98]

I installed linux last week. Only using OBS when it feels like working. Also found two versions of OBS one is flatpack and the other who knows

Yes you want to avoid the flatpack version. It took me a bit of playing with the video drivers and stuff before everything was perfect. That and for audio, it seems ALSA works better than pulseaudio.

 

[goddesstex]

Yes you want to avoid the flatpack version. It took me a bit of playing with the video drivers and stuff before everything was perfect. That and for audio, it seems ALSA works better than pulseaudio.

do you use lovense obs? or how you connect your toys?
i have to do the drivers thing