I've been gaming on / using Linux exclusively for ~6 years now, but there's always been one particular wrinkle.

Discord streaming

Specifically screen audio. With all but two of my friends now a significant distance away I've been doing more and more game/hangout nights online, and when its my turn to host its always been an absolute prick to get working. Over the course of those years I've tried the following, with varying results..

• Routing desktop audio to the mic
• Routing all audio via pipewire
• Using Vesktop / Vencord
• Using the screenaudio build
• Runing a windows VM (this is fine for movies)

And while these do work, they are kinda finicky for game capture, and nearly always need tweaking due to regressions (as they're essentially hacks upon hacks).

I wanna ask the *nix users here have any recommendations for a more robust solution, I don't care if it takes an hour to get configured properly, I just want it to reliably work when I need it.

My primary setup is:

• Arch
• Wayland (I do have X installed too)
• KDE Plasma
• Pipewire
• AMDGPU
  (about as basic as it gets)

Thank you in advance 💜

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