Software & workflows live here — the boring systems that make streaming reliable and publishing less painful. Same honesty as the hardware lane: if it doesn’t survive a real session, it doesn’t stay in the stack.
How these notes work
Scene setups, audio routing, Linux quirks, and editor habits get written down after they earn a place on the Area-51 desk — not after a shiny launch post. Expect configs, tradeoffs, and “don’t do this twice” notes.
Current stack
What’s actually installed
Detected on the live machine — write-ups land as each workflow gets documented.
01 · Stream
OBS Studio
Capture, scenes, and go-live
- App OBS Studio (browser build on CachyOS)
- Cam Razer Kiyo V2 in the USB chain
- Angle Dual-display layouts, game + facecam scenes
- Status Daily driver — workflow notes coming
02 · Audio
PipeWire
Desktop audio graph · Linux
- Stack PipeWire + WirePlumber + pipewire-pulse
- Angle Game / Discord / mic routing without the drama
- Status Active — workflow notes coming
03 · Desktop
CachyOS + KDE
Wayland session on the Area-51
- Distro CachyOS (Arch-based)
- DE KDE Plasma · KWin Wayland
- Angle Gaming + streaming on Linux without fighting the OS
- Status Daily driver — notes coming
04 · Create
Editors & tooling
Ship the site, clips, and backups
- Edit VS Code for the site and scripts
- Media ffmpeg for encode / clip jobs
- Ops Git + Docker for projects and isolation
- Chat Discord in the stream / community loop
Browse lanes
Workflows worth keeping
Full articles will sort into these buckets as they publish. Until then, the desk setup page covers the hardware side of the same station.
View Desk Setup- Streaming & recording setups
- Editors, overlays, and assets
- Automation & backups
- Linux / Windows tooling notes
Related right now
Hardware context for this stack lives on desk & stream setup and hardware deep dives. Software notes zoom into OBS scenes, audio graphs, and the Linux toolchain that keeps go-live boring — in a good way.