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Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no
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I will definitely give it a whirl, I also need to eventually switch my desktop to Linux as I'm still in W10, I used a lot of audio plugins (VST) that had no Linux versions but now I'm mostly hardware based. I just worry that there comes a time when it's nigh on impossible to install an alternate OS on a phone but I suppose there will always be people trying to find a way.
RE: Audio stuff I switched to bitwig long before I switched to Linux. Having familiarity with a DAW that ran natively was awesome; I also had a lot of plugins that ran as windows only VSTs. Yabridge + Wine was the answer.
You do have to downgrade wine to an older version (but this also helps you learn some Linux stuff) and works fairly well. I can even run omnisphere through yabridge (I do have a wild desktop tho so maybe not. the best point of comparison).
Mint is the first distro I used and most everything was really easy for getting audio stuff up and running quickly. I'm now using Garuda which I mostly like; there are issues that I'm still trying to work out.
Thanks, interestingly Garuda was at the top of my list but maybe I'll just stick to Mint and not be fancy. Bitwig always interested me and if I decided to go back to a DAW I'm definitely taking a second look because I have a tracker background from way back and the modularity and easy hardware integration look great. I'm not too concerned about the plugins so much as the hardware now, there is no official support for the Black Lion audio interface I bought but I'm assured it should work fine under ALSA and as I'm currently only needing it to record a stereo pair it should be fine. The plugins I use now are mainly compressors and EQs for some final mixing and "mastering" and there seems to be a decent amount of choices now for native plugins in those areas but I do have some favs I might need to bring over so I will check Yabridge. Look forward to getting my hands dirty again, hacking windows has just becoming getting rid of nuisances instead of customizing my computing experience.
I can totally relate to this! Perfectly sentenced.