Kewlio: I'll see you guys next time

Windows:

• half the software on your computer doesn't understand where it even is
• using a drive letter doesn't help at all
• chokes out the entire network

Linux:

• it's just another path in the file tree
• as long as you have perms, you can just access it
• doesn't kill the network unless you're actively trying to

• OBS: Basically Just Works™ seeing as there's a native Linux port
• Stream Deck software: Doesn't seem to want to install in Wine
• OpenDeck: Claims to be compatible with Stream Deck plugins...barely supports anything and jank as fuck (so far; seems to still be early in the works)
• streamdeck-ui: Haven't tried, but its functionality seems incredibly limited
• SAMMI: ...just plain runs, I guess??? Shocked that I didn't need to do anything
• Macro Deck: Haven't tried yet; apparently, native Linux support is in the works
• Pulsemeeter: Just really crashy and glitchy
• Other Voicemeeter replacement: Haven't figured one out yet, but I think PipeWire can be configured to add virtual audio sinks that I could pipe to other sources

So, I am a fool who just spent a few hours trying to make my RPi run Arch. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get it to boot; it either fails to boot at all, complaining about XHCI and bootlooping, or goes through most of the boot process before looping on "error -5 whilst initialising SD card".

It also seems pretty consistent that it bootloops about XHCI if I try to use fdisk to partition the SD card, and throws error -5 if I try to use KDE Partition Manager.

I also kind of wish that I could go anywhere useful to ask this question, but every question I have ever asked on any sort of tech site either gets completely ignored, or gets thrown out for not being a good enough question. :/

Sometimes, you just need to get a bit of validation from your command-line archive tool.