mub

I use my PC for gaming, streaming, and music production. Currently I just use a Scarlet 2i2 Gen 3 with powered PreSonus Eris E4.5 speakers, which is fine but I have an idealised audio setup I'd like to build which I'm struggling to put together without compromising on some aspect. The audio world is such a rabbit hole of snake-oil and bullshit it is hard to find genuinely good products I can trust to be what they claim, and not just overpriced distractions. I'm no audio expert (which is probably obvious) but I think what I'm trying to achieve is interesting enough to see what people recommend, and help me decide if my goal is unrealistic.

Here are my requirements and what I'm trying to achieve.

1. Volume controlled entirely from Windows. No external volume knobs unless they can be bypassed/overridden in software.

2. Audio Interface for my Mic and guitar.

   So at least 2 XLR inputs and 1 TRS (Combo ports are also fine).

   Include 48v Phantom Power for my Dynamic mics (RØDE PodMic and RØDE M3)

   Might need a pre-amp to boost gain on the Dynamic mic's

3. A Good USB DAC

4. A Good AMP for passive speakers, with a port for my wired headphones.

5. Passive Stereo speakers

6. Sound quality should be natural and true to life as possible. I don't want any silly audio enhancements, like base boosts or clear voice, but a good EQ control would be OK.

7. I'd like separate units for DAC/AMP/Mic Interface but I'd be happy with good combo devices.

Here is a diagram of what I'm hoping for. https://i.imgur.com/shzA8bn.png

I welcome your thoughts and pointers. Thx.

There is an AUR package that errors when I update it, and it has been like that for a while so I wondered if I could fix it myself?

The Package is here https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/filebrowser-bin

You can see my comment explaining the error under the username "mub".

I'm using EndeavourOS (Arch btw) with KDE plasma 6.x (Wayland), SDDM, and systemd as boot manager. I have 2 displays, one HDMI-A-1 (1080p) and one on DP-1 (Ultrawide).

When I boot the password entry cursor defaults to the HDMI display, but I want it to default to the DP-1 display.

I've tried a few things, mostly suggestions from ChatGPT. But nothing has worked. The weird thing is at boot the boot menu and boot messages all appear on DP-1, and it is set as primary in KDE and that works fine as well. It is just the logon prompt that defaults to the wrong display.

Things I've tried so far.

• Adding video=DP-1:e to the options in the systemd entry - (No effect)
• Edited /etc/sddm.conf.d/wayland.conf to run a script that did the following: kwriteconfig6 --file startkderc --group General --key PrimaryScreen DP-1 (didn't fix it, actually broke the logon process so had to remove it)

I'm just not familiar enough with how SDDM works so hoping for some good pointers to provide the answer or point me in the right direction.

I'm running EndeavourOS and Windows 11. Each OS is on a separate disk, but I have a data disk that is currently NTFS that mount in both OSes. NTFS causes problems for some things in Linux, and I'm worried it'll bork the drive for windows eventually, so I'm keen to find an alternative. I've read about the WinBTRFS driver so wondering if that is a better way to go?

I don't want to run a server with a share to access this data because it is way to slow for my needs.