Ooh, that’s a good point.
As I have to use emulation for some devices I will probably need to do that as well, because I can only emulate one type.
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I use qjackctl to manage stuff that still wants to talk with jack. Its all not really jack any more anyway but pipewire having an emulation/compat layer under the hood.
I can recommend focusrite audio interfaces, they are a bit pricier than behringer, but they paid the guy that upstreamed drivers for their gen 4 devices after the fact, which is pretty decent. They generally seem interested in a good linux experience (i have a gen 3 Scarlett 2i2 at my desk at work and it’s plug and play, no config, no drivers needed).
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I installed it but… I don’t get it.
Thanks! You are not the first one who recommends them. I’ll check them out.
Currently eyeing the 4th gen 2i2, which is just 20 bucks more expensive than the 3rd gen 2i2 it seems.
…that’s still more than four times the price of the behringer though, I wonder if it is worth it as I don’t even use the equipment that much (yet. But I want to… grrrr).
Anyway, I think I have to understand JACK et al first. Probably my audio interface is fine and I just have the ALSA configuration from hell on my machine.
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But you get a lot less noisy preamps for that dough. The behringer ADs are usable, especially for the price, the mic preamps in that price range are all c***.
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Thanks for the tip.
Been thinking to invest to quality sound card, but could not decide which one. This seems to have gotten very good reviews, and your info about them contributing to Linux dev tipped the scales for me.
I take it this will work well with Sennheiser HD 650 headphones.
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It has a standard size stereo jack output, if your headphones use mini jacks, you need an adapter (cheap), apart from that, yes, works well with headphones. Take care to pick a sensible size, i.e. if you don’t need pro audio mic inputs then don’t buy a 2i2, the analog circuitry is the most expensive part of these interfaces.
Disclaimer: This is pro audio equipment, so please double check if the available IO works for your needs (or ask 
).
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Today I installed simple-scan, my old HP office jet 6500 works with it just fine.
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Yesterday evening I installed vesktop. A better Discord app: snappier, less monetisation features and it “just works” on Linux Wayland desktops, such as default CachyOS.
EDIT: Officially, Discord ToS state that using alternative apps to access their service is not allowed but no one’s been banned from the platform for it yet. Let me take this opportunity to officially state that I am adhering to the ToS and using their garbage Linux app.
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Oh, and to browse for apps, I’m using parui.
Very nice if you’re used to vim keybinds, probably not something anyone else is interested in.
Install through paru, of course.
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Everyone is interested in vim, they just don’t know yet.
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:%!figlet
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If you’re also interested in Rust, you’re double lucky: parui hasn’t been maintained in a while 
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I had a short love affair with the modern tooling of rust, but it turns out I don’t really like the language, and man if you really get into it, it’s darn complicated. Plus if you’re operating in a performance critical environment, chances are you can’t afford to write safe code anyway.
The game audio world is firmly attached to c++ and I’m ok with that. The c++ guys are starting to understand that they need to make the ecosystem more user-friendly (ie. gcc15 introduced some improvements to error reporting and I am eating that stuff up) or perish. libasan and libubsan are my friends.
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Sounds like you know more than enough Rust to update the dependencies of a simple TUI 
Btw. anybody reinstalled a game in Lutris/GOG yet?
Somehow both KCD2 and Stalker2 changed something and now the newest patches won’t install (for different reasons).
I can take a look in the evening, but it’s been a while since I dabbled with rust.
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What’s wrong with the default Discord application?
@sobek: I haven’t reinstalled anything using Lutris yet, sorry. Make sure to report here when you find a solution. This is becoming a very nice Linux help thread. 
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It’s caused me a lot of annoyance in the past, with screensharing not working on Wayland (KDE) desktop, everything hanging for 2 full seconds when I enable my camera on an Xorg (GNOME) desktop.