Holy cows. We all have them. The software we've been using for decades and see no reason to change because they're working perfectly fine. Most often there isn't any reason to move to the new shiny, you're just creating an unnecessary workload and potential for problems that were already solved with the existing solution. But sometimes.. sometimes you're just being stubborn.

Yeah, it's still hardware acceleration. Just turn it off.

Deskflow is the officially sponsored, open-source successor to Synergy’s original vision, and it's being developed by the community with direct funding and support from Synergy itself.

Since line-in counts as a recording source there's no straightforward way of configuring it as a playback source using the gnome gui.

Sometimes you end up with a file that just does not want to sync, normally it isn't a problem, nextcloud notifies you, you get the filename, rename and away it goes. But when the filenames are obfuscated through gocryptfs you have to figure out what the obfuscated filename translates into before you can rename the actual file.

The newer versions of nvidia drivers were supposed to have completely solved the flickering when running fullscreen games but it was a flickering mess for me no matter what I tried.

It's just very unfortunate that gnome with ibus is the default linux desktop experience and the one most new linux users will encounter. And a problem like this which outright ruins gaming has been known and not fixed for this many years. It's a very poor first impression of linux.