I've been dual-booting Windows and Linux since college. Wavered back and forth a few times for the primary OS. Then when an update refused to work on Win10, I ditched it entirely. (never allow an out-of-date system on the internet) Back to single-boot after all those years, with Ubuntu Studio.
ubuntustudio.org
I've also built a couple of church rigs on UStudio. It's Ubuntu, so it has all of that support, and it's designed specifically for media production. Low-latency kernel, which all by itself solves some of the problems that Windoze has, and it has a TON of apps preinstalled and already working, so you don't have fuss with that.
OBS is one of those apps, but it's an old version. Actually all of them are like that, but OBS is the only one that I've *needed* to have all the way up to date. Install the official PPA:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
And then the normal update process gets you the actually-current release of OBS. Once that happens, THEN build your rig.
You can do that update now with:
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt autoremove
sudo snap refresh
reboot
Do that, and see what other apps you have. You won't use all of them! It's a single system that covers ALL the creative bases. It doesn't hurt anything for unused apps to just sit there. It's just an arrangement of bits on the hard drive, no system load at all.
We use Power Point with panels for visual and music.
PowerPoint specifically, doesn't run on Linux. But the free LibreOffice is preinstalled with Ubuntu Studio. It's supposed to be compatible with M$ Office, but of course it *is* a different set of code...
Something else you might consider is OpenLP, which is also preinstalled now. (a fairly new addition) It's a lot different from PowerPoint, so you'll more-or-less have to re-learn all of that from scratch, but it's designed specifically for church projection. Maybe it's worth a shot?
Or, I've done "slides" with OBS too. Not song lyrics, but pictures, videos, that sort of thing, shown to a local audience.
A 24 channel mixer with several microphones.
How does that mixer connect to OBS? Mostly curiosity, since that part shouldn't change anyway. If it works now, it should work just the same after you switch.
We have 3 Mevo Start cameras incorporated into OBS through NDI Interface
One of my church rigs on UStudio takes an NDI feed from some other software on a Windows box. Need to install the plugin of course, but then it works great!
If I need to suck it up and install Win 11, I will.
No need. Welcome to Linux! :-)
