I think Ardour is the only open source DAW that’s actually full-featured, and IMO it’s not great for MIDI-based workflows. Huge downgrade from Ableton. That’s based on version 5, though, I last used it maybe 2021 - maybe the current version is better.
LMMS is worth checking out, but back when I last tried it maybe 4 years ago I couldn’t get into it, the documentation was very barebones and like most DAWs it’s too complicated to go without.

Bespoke Synth is pretty cool and actually fairly intuitive even though it’s way different from a standard DAW, watching half of the overview video on their homepage is already enough to get you going. The name is a bit misleading IMO, it’s closer to a DAW than to a synth and you can even use it as a host for other synth plugins that supports both VST and LV2 (in contrast to Bitwig, which only supports VST). It was pretty crashy for me when I was working with external plugins, though.

Reaper is closed source.

Ubuntu Studio is still going strong. There’s a lot of legitimate criticism for Ubuntu, but it still works very well as an OS.

That’s really cool!

Sonic Visualizer to figure out the exact notes used in the original tracks.

Does it have any specific functions for this that applications like Audacity or a DAW don’t have, or did you choose it for other reasons?

TIL it’s open source, neat.

First time I’ve seen that, that is such a cool concept!

Maybe this post would be better suited for [email protected] ?

I used Ardour, an entire open source DAW. Definitely more powerful than Audacity for this kind of thing, and I’m much more comfortable with MIDI notation than traditional music notation, too. I did eventually switch to Bitwig though, because I use a lot of samples and synth plugins and Bitwig’s workflow and UI for that is just a lot better than Ardour’s.

There are quite a few pretty good open source VST/LV2 plugins, e.g. ZynAddSubFX is a really powerful software synth and Dragonfly Reverb is a neat reverb. There are more, unfortunately many open source plugins are only available in LV2 format and unfortunately Bitwig doesn’t support LV2.

Map projection based on an icosahedron globe is a new one.

Eh. Asia is only 3.1 times larger than Antarctica, both Europe and Oceania/Australia are even smaller and South America isn’t that much larger. It’s a different matter if we compare it to Eurasia and America (north+south), though.

Well, you do you. My Debian Testing install was my only bare metal install that ever broke because of an update (not to say that Arch etc. would have been any better, I just haven’t been using rolling release distros since then).

That kinda requires intention and effort, you wouldn’t be doing it because the process is so enjoyable. I definitely remember syrup medicine being really tasty when I was a kid.

Lots of pill-shaped medicine already does. You’re supposed to swallow them immediately, if you don’t you often find that they are mixed with bittering agents (or just naturally taste bitter).

Where I live, cough syrup that might actually be dangerous (e.g. the purple drank stuff) is already prescription-only or fully illegal, anyway.

Interesting. It seems your mileage truly varies when it comes to distro stability.

I think Cinnamon might even be one of the first desktops other than the big two that is going to be finished (more or less) with Wayland support.

Personally, I have been using window managers for years. You’d think that would make the transition easier (sway is even explicitly designed as a drop-in replaced for i3wm), but you need to configure so many of the tools around it (task/statusbar, screensaver/lockscreen, clipboard manager …) and I just couldn’t be bothered. I’m definitely past that “tinker with all the things”-stage of being a Linux user …

Cinnamon can be installed on most mainstream distros, actually. I definitely agree that it looks better than Plasma.

based.

As soon as I realized distro upgrades are a minefield every time on a desktop

How did you realize that? Hasn’t been my experience on Debian and Ubuntu at all, they always just worked for me, and that’s despite running a bunch of PPAs for GPU stuff on my Ubuntu install.

I don’t have any experience with immutable distros, are they harder/impossible to tweak, or just easier?

Debian Testing kinda sucks, it’s like the worst of both worlds of Debian and Arch; updates for some packages can be held back for months because of some blocker, while stable at least gets fastracked to important fixes for security or system stability, and Sid just naturally gets them faster because it’s more up to date. Sid is probably better overall, but why use an unstable rolling release without all the convenience that Arch’s tools offer? AFAIK pacman is really nice for stuff like making your own packages. Plus it has a much larger user base than Debian Sid, which helps when you’re looking for a fix for recent issues.

Bazzite is already pictured, and OP already complains that it’s too boring!