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.

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: vital.audio lsp-plug.in github.com/TukanStudios/TUKAN_STUDIOS_PLUGINS

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

Regardless of the distro, you can install as many desktops you want. It doesn’t have to be during the OS’s installation screen.