I don’t know what’s going on with your steam install to take this much time to log you in, but it looks like your Linux install is left with some dangling parts.

First, we need to be clear if we’re talking about Torvald’s Linux vs Microsoft’s Windows… or a bunch of company that don’t give a fuck about you.

Sound boards, GPU and all this insane amount of hardware runs on Linux better than any Microsoft thing may ever hope to. Your issue with your sound card is not Linux… it’s called “Creative”.

There are way to develop sound cards and have them working on day -1 (even a day before it’s release)… and way to put trick and trinkets in the binary blob without documenting anything (or, more precisely, keeping purposely hidden, since you always need source code to make binaries blob). In this case the Linux community rip and tear every detail by their own: the time took is never Linux or Linux’s community but, put more plainly, just the company who took your money and said to you " oh! So you want to run this thing on your Linux install? Well, what about: fuck you! Is that OK?"

Yeah, well, AMD has great support and it doesn’t even have the control panel for Linux and I can’t use Radeon Chill or AFMF at all. It’s just not even there. A 900€ graphic card I can’t really utilize fully. I know Creative is being Creative, but this is a very high end soundcard that I wouldn’t replace for anything.

The Linux install was as clean as one could get as I just installed it. As expected, I just don’t have the time or nerves to deal with any of this BS. I just want to play games when I come from work and that’s that. I still love Linux on all my multimedia devices all over my house that work perfectly and I wouldn’t ever use Windows on those again. But for this one, I’m just gonna stick with Windows as much as I hate Microsoft’s BS.

Some day in the future I might own a SteamDeck or even re-try Linux as my main OS, but that time just isn’t now yet.