Fully Windows-free now. Decided to roll with KDE Plasma on the desktop. Hyprland was too much of a bitch to get working with my 3-monitor setup. So far so good. Swapped out my Elgato HD60S for an Live Gamer Portable 2 PLUS for that UVC compliance. Only downside is the latency is too high, so I can't play the games from the computer anymore... now I need a better CRT for retro gaming 🤣
Other than that, it's been great. I set everything back up in OBS for streaming and cleaned that waaaaay up. I found "Stream Controller" for the StreamDeck which (IMO) blows Elgato's official program out of the water https://github.com/StreamController/StreamController
Other than that, a few minor tweaks to my laptop's dotfiles and I was good.
Oh, and after 20+ years I left extFS for btrfs. We'll see how that goes - getting it set up was very different, but once you have your subvolumes created the rest is a breeze.
Eventually I need to grab an AMD video card. Linux and nVidia have a very fun history 🤣