I recently acquired this, an ExpressCard capture card. It doesn't work on Linux though despite me trying for ages to get a working driver. But it's a fun thing.
Very considering using Windows for my game recording laptop for this but it feels dirty after I switched to Linux on everything. But if there's one thing that Windows has above Linux it's that I can use a 20 year old driver for uncommon hardware with no problem.
There is a Linux driver but even compiling a new kernel with it provided, it doesn't seem to work, despite using a commonly used chip. SAA7160... The driver is there now but the device won't use it for some reason.
@beardalaxy Yeah I guess that's the mentality I should have. I feel like I have two sides when it comes to computers, one where I try to contain the proprietary side in it's own corner and the one where I use free software where I can. I am pretty beyond the "freedom to waste my time" part of Linux because 99% of everything I do is to my liking now, but this one got me. The effort of two days of compiling different kernels on a 12 year old laptop was not worth it for something I can already do with other devices.
Microsoft can scrape my Super Mario Bros World gameplay footage as much as they want, I suppose. Plus it will probably record more efficiently on Wangblows
@arc with Linux, you can do whatever you want. But SHOULD you? Sometimes the answer is no lol. Sometimes it isn't worth it.