Capturing 4K60 on Linux used to be a mess. As of Linux 6.19 you plug in an Elgato 4K X, open OBS, and get clean 4K60 with the in-kernel driver and no extra software. What fixed it is a small USB quirk i got into the kernel. i needed this for my daughter Karolina’s YouTube channel, Karo’s Gaming World, which records clean 4K60 Nintendo gameplay. Shameless plug: if you like that kind of thing, leave her a sub. :) Read more

I’ve been a Linux user for about 15 years, and I owe a lot of that journey to my first job at Capgemini Deutschland GmbH. It was a classic corporate setup-developers used Windows, but all the servers ran on Linux. That’s where I finally got to learn the essentials: Bash scripting, maintaining on-premise servers for testing environments, and all that fun in-house stuff. I was working there part-time while studying computer science, so it wasn’t long before I started using Linux for personal projects, too. I kept my gaming PC on Windows, though, because back in 2012, gaming on Linux was basically impossible. Read more