Kewlio: I'll see you guys next time

So I might've kinda slightly forgotten to post my stream on Cohost (or anywhere) today, but it was basically a cross between a test stream where I did my first ever stream in any flavour of Linux, and the regular Sunday Super Shuffle.

The biggest problems I ran into:

• The version of OBS bundled with Garuda not including browser sources for some reason??? but there was another one available which did, so switched over to that relatively seamlessly
• Not having the Stream Deck or SAMMI to make things easy
• The Internet connection just randomly fucking dying in the middle of the stream
• The seed being absolute garbo

At least the "it being Linux" part of things basically went just fine. I still have some work to do to make it work just like in Windows, but it's a good start.

Trying out Garuda Linux. It's a gaming-centric Arch fork. FFXIV works (although it only starts like once every ten attempts, but no problems thereafter). Diablo IV works (although I haven't even started playing it since I've been more preoccupied with FFXIV). Left to figure out:

• Audio routing the way I have it set up in Windows
• Setting up the Stream Deck somehow
• Getting OBS set up
• Setting up SAMMI
• Getting Archipelago and related software all set up
• Ideally, a way to make FFXIV launch more consistently
• The majority of other software I use is already FOSS and cross-compatible

This program called Bottles seems to be a good way to containerise Windows applications for the most part, although I haven't succeeded in running anything in it yet:

• EmoTracker silently fails to launch and I don't really know why
• FFXIV Teamcraft won't install because of the lack of user accounts within Wine (it's technically running as admin, which it refuses to run as)

I kinda hope this is the one, though. I might have to jump back into Windows for streaming for a while, but I should hopefully be able to do damn near everything else in Linux right now.

What are people using for Linux gaming/streaming? Which distro(s)? X11 or Wayland? Lutris? I'd really love to figure this out for myself, but there seems to always be something not working.