And if you really want to grind the gears of advertisers, consider Ad Nauseam. It is built atop ublock origin but silently clicks all adds which will send an “omnivorous click-stream” which in turn ensures that “user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.”
I mean anyone who watermarks memes is someone I question the judgement of
Someone in here mentioned bitwig.
I started on abelton and moved to bitwig around 3.X and have been with it ever since.
I love all the different modules and the grid which has give me a lot more expressive control over my sounds.
they are similar yet different; I believe the core bitwig team were ex ableton devs who wanted to take things in a different direction.
I know it’s silly but one of the biggest things that I like about bitwig is customizable shortcuts; this is especially good if you’re coming from ableton because if your a shortcut key wizard you can easily remap similar functions.
if you’ve got an extensive VST collection you can run them with wine + yabridge.
Bitwig is not the only option, but coming from ableton if you want to run single boot it is the most similar (IMO) to Ableton.
Happy to answer any questions you may have about it as well.
All it takes is a cursory glance at US history to realize “yes” is the only valid answer in this case.
Well the link there should take ya to rhe project, always curious what people think
I’ve got it hosted on bandcamp, rn my URL redirects to bandcamp. The project is Aμq and I know it’s not everyone’s cuppa.
what year is it?!?
Nothing I suppose - I just like having options
🤣 free, I’m willing to put in a little leg work
100% this. good idea to be on the irc and get your account verified when you find one as the IRCs usually stay up when ships sink
Hey there! I’m an avid music producer and gamer.
I made the jump to bitwig while I was still using Windows in 2019, and made the full jump to Linux as my daily driver late last year.
My mint journey was Mint (Cinnamon) > Debian (KDE Plasma) > Garuda (Dr4g0niz3d KDE plasma)
I think mint was great and I was still able to do a fair amount of gaming on it and Cinnamon desktop environment is very similar to windows so it’s not too big of a jump.
Debian was fine - I wanted to use Plasma as the desktop environment because I wanted a touch customization for how I can set up windows, widgets, and different desktop panels. I had issues with some games on this though.7
I like Garuda but I would not recommend if you’re not too familiar with tinkering and troubleshooting. In hindsight I probably should have gone with Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE plasma as its desktop environment). I have experienced some odd bugs with the desktop environment and I think it has to do with how nvidia and Wayland play with one another.
I haven’t had a game that didn’t run, the only odd bug I’ve had is some games won’t recognize my new soundcard from bitwig.
using WINE and yabridge I’ve gotten all my plugins to work seamlessly as well - and that includes Omnisphere which is a beast on resources.
I was really fed up with the direction that windows has been heading for quite sometime.
TL;DR: I think mint or some Ubuntu distro would be a good fit for right now, and any future GPU upgrades consider something from AMD.