Thanks for the suggestion, bookmarked, will have a gander if I get stuck!

Oh yeah, I was thinking about that today, too; get a “for most stuff” distro as the baremetal, and VM specialist distros (like Kali or something) on top of it when needed.

I will definitely check out KVM at some point! I was just gonna chuck VBox at it, but your salespitch convinced me to try at it. Been mostly working with Azure and ESXi for the past 10 years, had no idea KVM was so advanced now, I saw something about it back in the day, but it was a tech demo -level back then.

Thank you kindly for the insight!

Aye, audio latency was a big question I didn’t find a good answer for during my research period. It is a headache on Windows as well.

You do make a really good point I didn’t think about the immutables for music stuff. Cheers for that.

Does the dickish attitude come with the package or is it extra? So sorry for asking questions after being out the scene for a bit, glad to see nothing’s changed in the past 20 years.

Thanks for the alternative take. Good to know that Fedora supports Flatpak that easily.

Blender has a video editor?! Geez, used it back in the day for 3D rendering, but didn’t even cross my mind for videos. Inkscape is a great idea!

Had a couple of recommendations for Ardour from other folks as well, will have to give it a go. Free is free after all.

Games fortunately I have the most experience with lately, was in another country with my ancient T530, and was bored, so did some gaming on Ubuntu, got mostly everything working pretty quickly.

Cheers for the music points. I got some pointers, that Nobara is great for music stuff, and Bazzite can be optimized for it, but takes some effort and fiddling. I gotta take a look at Ardour and Bitwig, see if I vibe with them. How are they with older (my keyboard is around 2010 I believe) MIDI devices, do you happen to have experience?

Thanks for the POV. Mint I tried back when it was step up from Damn Small Linux, like early 2000’s, no clue how it is now. I’ll keep it in mind.

I got interested in the immutable concept, since it wasn’t a thing back when I was more of a linux user, and I’ve gotten lazy and burnt out on fixing my OS when I just want to do something fun. But you do make a good point of sacrificing flexibility, and I might get annoyed at that later.

Sorry mate, not what I’m looking for.

I’d like my main recreational machine & distro to be low maintenance, I get to fix linux servers at work enough already, I don’t want to bring that home.

Cheers mate, never even heard of Kinoite, I was looking at KDE Plasma, but had some annoyance about it, can’t remember what. I’ll look into it for sure.

It’s been a while since I have disagreed so hard with anyone. With all due respect of course, can’t really debate taste.

I disagree with the story being awful or awkward acting. Story is the best one of out the 3 (if you don’t count Witcher 3’s DLCs, those were superb.) and has the most innovative story quests. Also, not to spoil too much, but your decisions in that game actually affect the entire world and story a lot, what you do in act 2 can change the entire story, my mate and I had completely different stories because of what we decided in act 2, and I have to respect that. Not like that Mass Effect kind of “you were evil or whatever, which colour do you want as your ending?”

I agree, combat is terrible, engine is terrible, everything is unintuitive and clunky. I’d say for the best experience, drop difficulty to the easiest one and play for the story. Also, change voice acting to Polish, I can’t stand Geralt in English in any of the games (Sorry Doug, cool guy, doesn’t fit as Geralt IMO.) and the Polish really adds to the atmosphere, kinda like playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in Russian.

After a dwarf in the slums told me that my mother sucks dwarf cocks in hell, I haven’t been the same as a person.

Good for you to give it a go even though it’s pretty rough by today’s standards. Totally worth it, love the game even with it’s massive faults.