I’ll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!
Anyways: I primarily use Gentoo Linux.
I have two headless servers: a Raspberry Pi 4B and a Oracle cloud VM (free tier). Both running OpenRC, and both were running mainline kernel with custom config (I recently switched the Pi to PiFoundation kernel due to some issues). The raspberry pi boots from SSD and has no sd card inserted.
Both servers were running musl libc instead of glibc for a while. This gave me a couple of random issues, but eventually I got tired and switched back to glibc.
I have a desktop running gentoo and a laptop running arch, but hoping to switch the laptop to gentoo soon.
Both are daily driving wayland (the desktop had nvidia card and used for gaming). The desktop is running a kernel with a minimal config that compiles in 2-3 minutes.
What’s your unusual setup like?
On my desktop I use 2 virtual audio devices that are linked to my real audio card with qpwgraph in order to split audio between VoIP applications and desktop/game audio.
I tried to set this up on a mac using soundflower so I could share my screen with an edit project with the director during lockdown and still chat to them at the same time. Didn’t work for some frustrating reason relating to Skype.
Funny, I was going to suggest Audio Hijack, but a search for
soundflowerrevealed that Rogue Amoeba were the stewards of that app for a few years. Anyway, Audio Hijack might be what you need if you’re still in the market for such a tool. Rogue Amoeba are the experts in Mac audio-routing.I believe while I was figuring this out I discovered one of rogue amoebas apps that I could use in conjunction with sound flower and I was nearly certain I had it, it was something to do with how Skype worked that sabotaged me, I couldn’t believe how stubbornly persistent Skype was despite how hard I tried to workaround it. I believe I was trying to make a single virtual sound device that combined my mic output with the system Audio so I could choose that as my microphone in Skype but SOMEHOW it was always able to fuck me over don’t remember how, only that I was extremely angry.
But what benefits do you get. At the end it lands on your real audio card anyways
When recording in OBS, I can split the voice and desktop audio and edit them separately.
I want this now
Pretty easy to do if you use Pipewire, just add a file named
~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/10-virtual.confwith the following content:context.objects = [ { factory = adapter args = { factory.name = support.null-audio-sink node.name = "Virtual-Sink-1" node.description = "Virtual Sink 1" media.class = "Audio/Sink" audio.position = "FL,FR" } } { factory = adapter args = { factory.name = support.null-audio-sink node.name = "Virtual-Sink-2" node.description = "Virtual Sink 2" media.class = "Audio/Sink" audio.position = "FL,FR" } } ]This will add 2 virtual sinks to your device list after a restart, which you can use in all applications.
After that you can install qpwgraph and add it to autostart: https://flathub.org/apps/org.rncbc.qpwgraph
Now you can drag & drop all connections from your Virtual sinks to you output device (as shown in the image I posted). You can even send it to multiple output devices at the same time.
When you are done hit
Ctrl + Sto save your patchbay and selectPatchbay -> Activated. Now qpwgraph will load your connections every time it starts.