Yeah that's true. On the desktop since i was already using more DIY-type distros it's not that difficult to avoid it, but with a more specialized usecase like the steam deck it's hard to find something that mimicks the SteamOS experience without using systemd, or at least there's not an OOTB experience distro for that as far as i know. I'm still using the stock SteamOS on my deck for that reason, it doesn't feel worth it to replace, especially since i only use mine to game and don't tinker with it like my desktop.

Idk, i mean there's Artix. I've used Void for like 2 years and gaming was fine.

Shepherd gang. Pretty sure only one distro uses it, but i'd love to know if i'm wrong.

Well yeah i'm not saying you should do that and have never done that myself either lol. It did happen at the pcmasterrace subreddit though, which is funny cause it seems like these days i hear more of them complaining about people mentioning linux than there are actual people mentioning linux. I ended up muting the subreddit cause it got so annoying.

I disliked it mainly because of the cable breaking, which happened to my first gaming headset as a kid. However now i just own a sennheiser where you can easily pull the cable off of the earcups and replace them, so it's not an issue anymore.

I'm using a setup that i already had when i was still on windows, but it's pretty much a driverless setup so it worked on linux just fine.

I use a JDS Labs dac and amp that i bought years ago and they still work great, the dac is plug and play. I paired it with a sennheiser HD660S that i'm still very happy with. Unless wireless is really important to you i'd recommend wired because they offer the best quality in terms of bitrate. With my sennheisers the nice thing is that the cable is easily replacable because they're just plugs that you can pull out of the earcups.

For discord i'm using an old usb mic that i bought years ago that seems to work fine.

Basically what i'm saying is don't bother with the gaming headsets. The one thing i miss on linux is dolby atmos tbh. On windows i used it for virtual surround sound as a replacement for the gaming headset software, but last time i checked you can't use it on linux. Some games have virtual surround sound baked into their settings, which works without OS-level software, but for the games that don't i miss it. I'll probably keep using this audio setup until something dies cause i'm just really happy with it.

Edit: you could also pair good wired headphones with something like a Fiio BTR15, which also supports bluetooth. That way you can still walk around with the dac/amp in your pocket. There's still going to be wire between the headphones and the amp of course, so it depends on how allergic you are to wires. I bought a Fiio mainly as a more portable wired setup for my phone/laptop.

This is pretty much what it feels like when you suggest this in the pcmasterrace subreddit or a windows community lol

Now i'm imagining some dude holding a thinkpad up to his ear

Yeah, i was using Void but atm i'm using Guix. From what i can tell Guix doesn't have an implementation for it either, but my current setup works so that's good lol. I just have a shepherd service that executes the script in my users' .nix-profile as root. The tmpfiles.d method is basically what this project is doing as well. I ended up not using it because of that, but i also don't like that it adds more projects that you have to depend on to get it working compared to the manual setup that we're doing.

When i said unique i was purely referring to consoles going up in price instead of down. RAM cartel was already a thing long before trump though, as much as i hate the turd.

Even if that were true, the prices wouldn't increase either. I think there's more factors at play though that make consoles cheaper over time.

Oh that's cool that they actually acknowledge the issue now and have adressed it like this. It looks it does still assume systemd though? Since it's using tmpfiles.d. Since i'm on a non-systemd distro i'll probably keep using my own script that runs at boot through my service manager. I've updated my config a little since then cause i used to symlink from my home folder, which caused issues on my server where multiple users needed the drivers. I now symlink it directly from the store. Also looking back at my old comment, i did end up trying to use rocm and it worked just fine.