Soundux VS Discover

I don't have any personal experience with any soundboard stuff, so you'll have to research that yourself. A quick web search led me to Soundux: https://github.com/Soundux/Soundux

instead, use Soundux, a completely free soundboard that is open source and on github.

https://github.com/Soundux/Soundux ?

I've used the Soundux program a few times in order to play sounds through discord calls with friends.

Soundux is the only method I found to make it work... barely.

My mistake, should have mentioned it's pretty early on in development. Try Soundux instead. If you've got your audio sorted by folders (ie, a Sound Effects folder, a Background Music folder, etc) you can set each one up as a separate tab and cue them by clicking or hotkey. To set volume, you'll have to right click, and there's no smooth crossfade option yet, but it's easy enough to set sounds to loop and control them at will.

Not a "real" solution, but you can use Soundux to mix the application sound with your microphone: https://github.com/Soundux/Soundux. Would still be great if Discord would fix the issue.

Ahh, I use Soundux which works insanely well.

Discord overlay doesn't exist in linux. I'm using Discover as a workaround.

If you know python you could maybe start by looking at how discover handles everything by reading its source code

There are applications like Discover for Discord. It is capable to render above everything else, even fullscreen games without taking any resources.

1) If you use Discord, install it and the Discover overlay. With the Deck's excellent output cancelling, you can comfortably chat while you play.

Python GTK Linux Example that works on Steam Deck: https://github.com/trigg/Discover

Discover Overlay: This lets you have an overlay for Discord, since Discord on Linux still has no overlay support of its own. It's a little janky, but being able to see who's talking and read what the people in text chat are saying is just an important part of being social online. I love being able to both play video games and hang out with friends simultaneously, so this is just about mandatory for me.