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vfio
A script for easy pci and usb passthrough along with disks, iso's and other useful flags for quick tinkering with less of a headache. I use it for VM gaming and other PCI/LiveCD/PXE/VM/RawImage testing given the script's accessibility.
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WorkOS
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I suppose its a bit of an edge case but the games I want to play are already available on this side of the fence leaving me in a position where everything has worked out pretty damn smoothly. But for the rare title that I'm desperate to play but doesn't work in Linux I've written myself a little vfio script in case I ever really need to run some software with my GPU passed through. Granted more aggressive anti-cheats still won't play nice without some more serious under the hood modification of the host kernel and qemu binary, it works for just about everything. But I only need to fire up that VM like once every few months.
Linux supports modern hardware, the problem is the rest of the stack that we all rely on. Linux has had HDR support for ages now but does Xorg or any Wayland compositors support it? Nope (Xorg will probably never get support, Wayland is blocked on a colour management protocol)! The only thing that actually can use it is Kodi running on top of DRM+GBM (instead of an X11/Wayland environment the requirement for GBM probably means no Nvidia support but that's on them).