I've been dabbling in Linux since probably ~2000 or so. It never really stuck with me due to requirements for other things and a general lack of discipline/commitment to do much more than CLI stuff; the various shells always underwhelmed me aesthetically (what a daft thing to be underwhelmed by, really). These days it's a wildly different, and I just spent a couple of hours installing Debian 12 on an old Toshiba laptop my partner had. Honestly probably ten years old. Runs really well with GNOME 43. Ran into roadblocks getting Jack to work with an external audio interface, but meh, that's for another time. I've been wanting to figure out a way to do at least most of what I do musically on basically any old system, so that eventually, I can simply give up all the proprietary and expensive software I use regularly (or if the software is available on Linux, that's great). Feels like a step in a good direction. Hooray. First post in however long etc.