the_postminimalist

Drought concerns in the winter in Vancouver is one hell of a thought

I didn't expect them to inject ketamine into a child

proprietary software that I don't trust, or programs that aren't on zypper

They're speed bumps

It absolutely does. Godot is growing a LOT. I see it frequently in my local game dev community.

In that case, my favourite so far is River. Honestly what I like the most about it is that the creator seems like a nice guy, and I liked the talks he gave about the process of making a wayland compositor.

Otherwise, there wasn't much difference between River and something like Sway. Sway had more documentation, and I could also use i3 documentation when needed. But I felt like sticking through figuring out River's config file, and then it was just like any other compositor. And I liked it.

The information you gave is vague enough that basically any WM or compositor fits the bill.

Do you have a preference between X or Wayland? Do you want something that looks fancy like Hyprland? Is there something in particular that i3 doesn't provide that you might want?

It costs $1000 to legally kill someone.

It's updated whenever your package manager puts up the new version. If you're using something like Ubuntu or Mint, then you're using apt as your package manager, which takes a while to update stuff because they like to test it for a while first.

Not everyone feels like having a mascot fits with their branding

I didn't get to spend too too much time doing pro audio on linux because as soon as I realized Wwise will not work, I didn't spend much more time in Reaper after that. But it was good, especially with an audio interface (if you're buying an audio interface, check to see how well it works with linux. Apparently some may have issues)

By the way, the whole point of Debian is that it has older software, and in exchange you're almost guaranteed to have a system that doesn't break. But for some professional software you'll want the newest version. I recommend using Flatpak for that stuff instead of Apt (like for Reaper)

When installing Debian, when it asks "Allow login as root?" be sure to select "no". This one step is why some people don't recommend Debian, saying it complicates the install process. But if you get that right, then you're all good. Or I think sometimes it will instead ask you to create and type in a root password, in which case you should leave it blank and click next. You only want to make a password for your user, not for the root.

First off, I want to make it clear that the distro doesn't really matter. Different distros are just what it comes pre-packed with by default.

TLDR:

• For something easy to use: Linux Mint

• For something that has pre-installed audio software (but maybe not the ones you want): Ubuntu Studio

• If you want to build your system from scratch: Debian (or Arch if you want the latest and greatest software, and don't mind the occasional update breaking your system around once a year or so, and needing to spend an hour fixing it)

• Regardless of which distro you get, use JACK or PipeWire for your sound server. PulseAudio (on its own) has too much latency.

More details:

I first tried Ubuntu Studio. It comes with a lot of software related to audio production. But I found it to be insanely slow, and it didn't even come with Reaper anyway.

I tried OpenSUSE because I liked that it had the option to manually deselect the software you don't want (and I was too much of a beginner to know how to pick my packages from the ground-up). It worked well.

Eventually I moved to Debian. I didn't want any of the extra fluff and found it was pretty easy to choose everything myself. One thing that's important is that you don't want to use PulseAudio. Either use JACK (which I think needs to be used in conjunction with PulseAudio actually) or use PipeWire, which is what I use.

For any Windows software, use Bottles to emulate them on Linux. I actually ended up needing to go back to windows because of one audio software: Wwise. There was no way of running it in Linux. A VM probably would've worked, but that would've been a massive hassle for how I'd need to use it.

Free Linux VSTs: https://vital.audio/ https://lsp-plug.in/ https://github.com/TukanStudios/TUKAN_STUDIOS_PLUGINS

Paid Linux VSTs: https://www.acmt.co.uk/products/index.html https://librewave.com/ https://www.audiodamage.com/collections