jaykstah

This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of the post. Mindustry is awesome, I got so addicted to it for a bit haha

I pretty much just use my switch for Nintendo exclusives at this point. For the games I do own on both I tend to prefer the Deck's input options and flexibility in that regard more often than not.

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.

I remember having a lot of fun with Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time a few years ago.

You have up to 4 players (iirc) manage a spaceship which is essentially a platforming area. It gets pretty hectic (in a fun way imo) managing the different equipment on the ship and piloting it around while dealing with obstacles and enemies.

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.

Droidcam is a pretty decent option too for using Android phones as a webcam, that's what I've used on Linux to accomplish similar things. Just run the droidcam server on the Steam Deck and either connect to it from the phone via local IP address or over USB.

If you already own the game on Steam just use Proton. It ran perfectly fine for me through various proton versions over the years (whatever was the latest at the times I played) or proton expiremental. Before they dropped native support I would typically run the game through Proton anyways as it performed much better than the native Linux version at the time.

Otherwise using Heroic game launcher should be fine. Prior to Heroic getting popular I saw that people were installing Epic Games Store via Lutris and that ran Rocket League fine too.

I didn't have a specific plan for how I wanted to use it but having it around encourages me to use it.

Because of the Steam Deck I was able to kick back with it in my hands and be like "eh why not start Yakuza 0 I've had it in my library for a while" and now I'm set on playing through the whole series since they're remastered on Steam these days.

Also is nice to have it around for whenever I wanna kill a bit of time and run some roguelites or other casual games. But overall it's made it much easier for me to drop in and try out my backlog of single player games since it's so easy to start playing even if I'm not in the mood to sit at my desk.

I've also found fun use cases like leaving it in its dock and using the touchscreen to trigger Soundux soundboard with the audio routed to my main PC. Or using obs websocket to control OBS on my main PC from the Deck's touchscreen, kinda using it like an impromptu Stream Deck (lol). All around fun to use as intended and also find cool ways to utilize it when I'm not gaming on it.

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.