That’s why I don’t use rolling releases (except debian-testing, which is actually stable). Because these kinds of things are bound to happen 1-5 times a year.

Wayland is not as advanced as android’s system, so i don’t see why not use android’s. The license for it is fine.

Unlike what people reply here out of ignorance, your thinking is correct, meaning, that Google has already done the hard work to create a TRULY modern OS, with proper usability, security, and yes, a way better compositor than wayland (in fact, android has the best compositor in the world, compared to ANY OS). A properly modified desktop OS based on it (better than Samsung’s DeX for example), that is also able to run normal Linux apps, would be a huge winner.

I’m using Cinnamon, I find it better when using a customized Cinnamenu applet (instead of the default app launcher).

For Windows users, Linux Mint is the best option.

Look here: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/administering_the_system_using_the_gnome_desktop_environment/changing-the-power-button-behavior_administering-the-system-using-the-gnome-desktop-environment#changing-the-power-button-behavior-in-systemd_changing-the-power-button-behavior

As a watercolor artist, who sells prints, the printing was a bigger problem for me.

Anticheat is kernel compromise. No one should be using games that use that, or OSes that allow it.

As for fulfillment, unless you need very specific apps to do your job, I’m sure it can be fulfilling with the right DE and distro. For me, I’m using Linux since 1998, and I still prefer Mint over Arch, for example. It just works.

That was true in the past. But in the last 10 years people have stalled their PC upgrades. That’s the real reason why they don’t move to Win11, because they don’t want to buy a new PC. And that’s where Linux is going to get that market from MS.

The only reason I don’t like snaps is because they don’t include all functionality. For example, I couldn’t print with Gimp and Darktable snaps.

That is normal in software development. System76 thinks that they will reach v1.0 early next year, but in reality, this won’t mature for another 2 years or so.

Better apt quick!

He’s not a Russian asset, he simply feels that if the whole world is run by tyrants like him and Putin, then he would somehow he could do whatever he wanted, because it would just be as simple as cutting a deal/buying the privilege (same with the Trump mentality). Musk is the embodiment of why becoming a billionaire needs to be outlawed.

It’s a case of people not buying new computers anymore as much as they used to. They have reached a speed that’s acceptable to them, so they don’t see the point of upgrading. Same with phones, everyone was buying a new phone every year until about 2017. Then it slowed down because phones matured, there was no point chasing new hardware anymore. So now we have people using old phones, and old laptops. That’s why there were so many angry people at Ms for asking them to upgrade in order to install Win11. They didn’t want to upgrade, their laptop felt fast enough.

Most of my laptops are 1366x768. In fact, in a recent KDE survey, the developers got extremely surprised about how prevalent low resolutions were (it was linked around a few months ago). All developers are out of touch a bit, however, let’s not forget that this issue wouldn’t exist if Linux users weren’t allergic to anonymous data-sending with statistics like these. Yes, no one likes privacy invasion and telemetry, but statistics like these are needed by developers.

BTW, on Gnome you can use the ALT button to move windows around when they don’t fit. Still annoying though. Mint has 2 such windows too (their login prefs, and their panel settings pref).

Edit: More info here https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/metrics-in-kde-are-they-useful/

I use Mint with Cinnamon with the Cinnamenu menu (instead of the default ugly one). I’m able to make Mint to start up at 700 MB of RAM. On my fast desktop I have Debian Testing with Gnome 47, that one starts at 1.5 GB of RAM. I’m thinking of using Mint there too.

Because LMDE runs on Debian, you won’t have the extra fixes for audio that ubuntustudio offers (mint runs on the same repos as all ubuntu flavors). Also, LMDE is debian, and their packages are older.

Regarding ram, reaper uses way, way less ram than any other daw, because it’s the most optimized of all. The creator of it, who also did winamp back in the day, is known for his optimization black magic.

Not the case with all laptops, e.g. some asus ones, and not even the tuxedo ones that require drivers.

Laptops from over 5 years ago are well supported by Linux (for the most part). However, the very modern laptops have bits and pieces that aren’t supported, from fan profiles, to the new intel webcams etc. They will run Linux, but you might fry them if your fans don’t work properly. So your best bet would be to get either an old one (I got a Macbook Air from 2015 with 8GB RAM, works great), or get a Tuxedo, or a System76 one, or a couple more Linux-specific ones. And it’s not because suddenly Linux does worse job supporting hardware, but it’s because these machines are. getting more complex and they need drivers for every little thing. Back in the day, things were more generic (e.g. the fans) and worked with a single driver.

With 4 GB of RAM you will be limited, so either XFce or Mint are your best bet (and edit their StartUp pref panel to disable some services – that will save you 200 MB of RAM). I wouldn’t put Gnome on a machine with 4 GB of RAM, it’ll start swapping before long.

Not sure why you say that “ubuntu studio is absolutely not an option”. You don’t give any reason why it’s not an option. Ubuntu studio has special scripts to make things like jack2 work in pipewire correctly, for one. I couldn’t get Presonus StudioOne to get any sound on my Mint installation without that ubuntu studio setup script, for example.

Reaper is nothing like Ableton, it’s its own thing, and you’ll need to get used to it. Ardour is another option, Bitwig, and some others I mention here: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/113358203445896735

LMMS is mostly for electronic/midi music (the UI is like FL Studio’s). For recording, you’ll need to download their .appimage dev-build (they implemented it a few months ago). Still no vst3 support in it though.

And you’ll need to get a supported audio interface, you can’t judge audio quality via BT.

Personally, I’d go for Linux Mint and do these things: 1. Install a theme that pleases you visually, 2. Edit startup sessions to not load useless things (I’ve even turned off bluetooth) 3. Uninstall fwupd (you don’t need that on a mac), 4. Uninstall the evolution-data-server 5. install the ubuntustudio pipewire config script, 6. install the daw you like, and use the pipewire connection kit to make sure you get sound out of it.

On my Mint, I’ve been able to get it down to 700 MB of RAM on a clean boot (out of 1.3 GB by default). That gives some headroom to do better web browsing or media work.