Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GNU/Linux is the Empowerment of the PC. So What Do You Do? Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 11:36:55 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <17c37c35720e7ddc$20295$3326957$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:36:56 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0efd84167c072387e68d729a5fc91b3d"; logging-data="2084856"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+TnjLS9A0y/GObBegvfsGM" User-Agent: Pan/0.157 (Mariinka; 7c3c608 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ydHDH/enHQA2qNJZOyyTieWHr4E= X-Face: \}2`P"_@pS86<'EM:'b.Ml}8IuMK"pV"?FReF$'c.S%u9 wrote in <17c37c35720e7ddc$20295$3326957$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>: > Provide testimony. Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a > revolutionary Usenet group. > > Testify! Fucking lackey assholes! Sorry, didn't hear the sound of your whine over all this ocean noise!\\ The superior sound-routing capabilities of pulseaudio allows me to stream video through Twitch or YouTube without having the sound of another video bleed into the stream. Also, IM pings (such as from WhatsApp) don't have to be on my stream. This is handled with a virtual audio device. Before, I've actually bought products for Windows that claimed to have this capability, but they never worked right with OBS-Studio. Speaking of which, I used xdaliclock for a visual timer. There is no xdaliclock port for Windows, so there's another reason to keep using Linux. I shudder to think what would be necessary to build Pan for Windows. It's not a cakewalk on Linux, either, but much more manageable (Sidenote: It escapes me why you don't take the time to stop being a "distro lackey" and build your own Pan from sources. Jedi knights build their own light sabers, don't they?) Anyway, back to streaming: when I stream, it's usually games, and those games often used DirectX. The Linux implementation of DX is DXVK, which uses Vulkan -- and can run faster than Windows. Elite Dangerous Odyssey uses Frontier Development's _Cobra 4.0_ engine, which I cap at 90 FPS. I run the 60Hz display at 4K resolution with all the knobs cranked up to "Ultra". There's still plenty of overhead to run OBS-Studio, which can stream the video while writing to the 10G-Base-T attached NAS. A word about the NAS: it is a Synology DiskStation, which also runs Linux. But that is more of an appliance, with web-based GUI management software. I record at 4 Gbit, because the disks are only 6 Gbit SATA drives. That is RAID5. The new NAS that I haven't assembled yet will have a RAID0 volume for captures; it will be a two-volume NAS with the other volume either RAID5 or something I haven't tried yet: Synology's hybrid RAID that allows one to grow the volume. Enough Linux porn for now. (Was it good for you?) -- -v