Fluffgar2-clicks to install Windows 11/10 without the third-party bloatware
TrustingZebraFinal paragraph sums it best:
Don’t want any bloatware or subscription services preinstalled on your computer? Consider installing Linux instead of Windows the next time you’re reinstalling your computer.
I’m quite interested in using Linux, but it won’t run many, if any of the 100s of plugins I own, let alone my audio interface, or my production software.
At least, that’s my assumption. I did a search and can see there’s a decent DAW for Linux (the amusingly-named Cockos Reaper), it’s affordable at $80. But I’d also need to buy a new audio interface, there’s a few that have Linux drivers. An expensive experiment. My interest is because it’d be amazing to have a stable system to play music live, with no weird Microsoft shit happening in the background guaranteed.
Maybe Ardour can fit? You can pay $1 or more for the binary or compile it yourself.
Ardour is very appealing to me because it supports VST3! There is a ‘wrapper’ available to make VST3 compatible with Linux, but that’s just adding the complexity and potentially bugginess that I’d be trying to escape from.