VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble

This is great but would need to run on windows for the typical mumble use-case of gaming.

It would also be great to have this running on ESP32 or similar, so you could make dedicated IP desk intercoms - I envisage a star-trek style intercom, with each button being a channel that you can join by pushing it in (can join multiple simultaneously).

> This is great but would need to run on windows for the typical mumble use-case of gaming.

You can game on Linux just fine.

This reminds me of a ESP32 Walkie-Talkie: https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/mbwq6f/walkietalkie_...

It's so nerd-sad to see Ukrainian Army doing just fine with Discord screen sharing on Windows[1], realistically obsoleting a large bulk of proper intercom solutions. I want to have to have a working RTS KP-32 on my desk!

1: https://i.redd.it/hjcg9hdnqvqa1.jpg

I'm more concerned about the winrar in that photo. Someone please tell them about 7z

It's clown world level to see any military using a consumer chat application for sensitive operations, especially one made by a foreign cooperaton. They really don't seem to take opsec seriously even when leaks have already cost lives.

You can certainly play a number of popular and/or high quality games on Linux, but it's hardly ubiquitous. If you're interested in a given specific game I would say your odds of it having a viable Linux experience are worse than 50/50 yet, and if it's a AAA title I'd say it's closer to 10-25% IME.

If not for Valve/SteamDeck this would be even more dire, and many of those experiences are still emulation-based i.e. Proton.

If you want to be able to play any given computer game being sold this year, that's only reasonably certain on Windows. Gaming is the only reason I still have a Win10 install.

They made very successful use of consumer-level tech to defeat military-grade tech, e.g. various uses of drones to deliver munitions, and GSM networks as beacons over enemy territory. No wonder: given their constraints, they jump on every solution that can work right now, with near-zero effort. While using a foreign-controlled tech is usually frowned upon, the US is not the side from which they particularly need to hide. I would rather see them using Signal though.

> It would also be great to have this running on ESP32 or similar

ESP32 has its own port of the Codec2 library, which allows intelligible communications using very low bandwidth (a few kb/s). It could make the ideal solution for creating small cheap intercoms scattered around a small area using WiFi, or employing very low bandwidth radio connection such as LoRa for wider coverage. I still didn't see any real application, beside a few simple proof of concept videos on YouTube, though.

More info:

http://www.rowetel.com/?page_id=452

https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/libraries/esp32_codec2/

This is simply not true. As someone who has been gaming exclusively on Linux for over a decade I don't even bother checking for support before getting new games anymore because almost all of them just work with Wine/Proton or only need minor workarounds.

The only things that do give problems (besides new releases which are promply fixes) are some multiplayer games with anti-cheat that intentionally breaks under Linux. But if you support those kinds of games then you reap what you sow.

Proton is also not really magic - it's mostly just Wine + DXVK and while Valve has improved both they didn't start either of them and weren't involved before they became viable. SteamDick is entirely irrelevant here - if anything it has caused developers to not release native Linux builds because of the way Valve does certification (or unfounded fears on the devs side).

> If you want to be able to play any given computer game

Moving goalpoasts much? This is like saying you need to be an american in order to use computers because there are some computer models that were never exported. There are more games than you will ever be able to play which work under Linux, for any genre. For older games it is often even easier to get them to work under Wine/Proton compared to native Windows.

Here's my report:

1. Overwatch -> works great in Proton, albeit about 20% slower than Windows

2. Factorio -> works great natively on Linux, maybe even better

3. Warframe -> works okay in Proton but crashes sometimes

4. Call of Duty (recent) -> kernel anti-cheat both fails to stop cheaters and refuses to work on Linux

I tried living the Proton lifestyle for about 2 years, from around 2019 to around late 2021. Then I just dug my old computer out, reinstalled Windows 10, and went back to using Windows for games.

As a counterexample, I switched to Linux in 2013 for all use cases, gaming included, and haven't looked back. Many of my favorite games do have native Linux builds, but I've had little issue with those that don't.

We can probably cut this back and forth short just by linking to ProtonDB [0] and AreWeAntiCheatYet [1].

[0] https://ProtonDB.com

[1] https://AreWeAntiCheatYet.com

The Steam top 1000 games:

Rating System: ProtonDB Medals

29% Platinum

47% Gold

11% Silver

3% Bronze

4% Borked

In aggregate:

76% P+G (Games you can just play)

86% P+G+S (Games you can play with minor tweaks)

Anticheat:

154 Supported (45%)

39 Running (12%)

3 Planned (1%)

118 Broken (35%)

25 Denied (7%)