I like Ardour. It’s got everything you need. It’s what I’ve been using for the past couple years now. It even supports VST2/VST3 plugins through WINE

I also recommend using yabridge to set up Windows plugins to work on Linux, but be warned there is risk of compatibility issues with plugins on Linux when buying new ones!

EDIT - Resources:

• Ardour website - https://ardour.org/
  • Recommend installing from your package manager tho
• Yabridge tool - https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
• A few plugins that work:
  • Drum kit plugin I like (free) - https://www.powerdrumkit.com/
  • Voxengo SPAN (Frequency Analyzer, also free) - https://www.voxengo.com/product/span/
  • Luciano Dato’s Noise-Repellant (free) - https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent
  • Typically use the built in LPF/HPF, Graph Eq, Reverb, and Compressor plugins. They work great

Wait a little while and low key Audacity 4 might release a fully capable DAW as well now that it’s adding better clip support, plugin support, non-destructive editing for some effects like compression, reverb, etc. Of course, it will be mainly for if you do a lot of recording. For electronic, Ardour would probably be better even after Audacity 4 releases.

Nexctloud home server ftw

Yeah I mean it’s just a themed Kubuntu, right?

• Ubuntu is pretty stable, but the latest is pretty up-to-date atm. It’s also well supported and well understood by the wider linux community
• KDE is a solid choice as it will be familiar to Windows users (afterall, Windows 11’s GUI was based on Plasma)
• The novelty of using a Hannah Montana themed linux distro is fun

It’s a fine beginner distro

Yeah it was good for a while. But now a few important websites for me just don’t work anymore, like a page for paying my loan. It only worked in chromium browsers. I know that chromium will work everywhere because they’re the first to implement the newest standards and are the most supported by developers due to it having a huge market share. I can’t rely on knowing firefox will work anymore. I’ve lost faith in it as a product.

Brave works. Firefox doesn’t. Cope

Yes they are. They are agreed upon standards set for future development from a host of different companies. Chrome is just always the first to implement them. It’s not that firefox will never have them, they just develop slow.

And I won’t switch from brave bc it’s the one browser that just works and has good adblock

Good for you. It works for most websites. But when I can’t pay my loan bc firefox is crapping itself, it means I can’t use firefox.

especially with this recent adblock nonsense that google is pulling.

But brave has adblock, so it’s all good

One of the few chromies that has adblock still as well as decent privacy-by-default settings. I just disable the AI stuff. It doesn’t have crypto stuff anymore (at least not in your face; I’m sure you can still re-enable it). It’s the best chromium browser by far.

The only problem is it isn’t based on Chromium tho. That just doesn’t suffice anymore.

I was an avid Firefox user for years and librewolf user for a year after that, but unfortunately, FF hasn’t been able to keep up in terms of web standards.

More and more I kept having pages just not work. I ended up having to install a backup Chromium-based browser bc critical websites like my banking and loan sites only worked on Chromium-based browsers. Eventually, I caved. If I had to have a second,Chromium-based browser anyway, I might as well just use that for everything.

I wanted to not use Chromium, but FF has lost the war. Chromium runs the show now. No more fighting back. Google owns the internet.

So now I’m on Brave, and honestly it’s way better than Librewolf these days. I would recommend any librewolf user switch over to that.

The GBA, not bc it has fancy features like the Wii, but bc the mods deliver an experience I couldn’t otherwise have.

Sure, running ripped games on a PS1 or full-on Slippi on a Wii is nice, but I wasn’t locked out of those experiences. I could use a PC or even my phone these days to get a similar experience.

However, GBA hardware mods are all about making the GBA the best it can be, not just doing something in yet another place like the Wii mods.

For instance, in the form factor of the GBA (i.e. the landscape form that is far superior to the SP), you can:

• Install a beautifully bright LCD (these days a display better than what came on the SP)
• Switch over to a rechargeable battery via USB-C
• Replace the awful mushy membrane buttons (which have, unfortunately, taken over the gaming industry) with tactile clicky push buttons
• Run any game you want off with a flash cart (if you’re rich enough for one).

With those mods and the extensive and wonderful GameBoy/GameBoy Color + GBA library, you get a truly elite handheld experience.

Sure I can play GBA games on my phone, but I can’t play them with a device that feels so good to hold like this. A dedicated distraction free gaming experience on the go as well. It’s personalized and practical and beautiful.

So yeah, loading backups from SD on a Wii is cool, but to me, nothing beats perfecting an already great device through hardware mods!

I’ve been wanting to make something like this for a while but never got around to it.

I also wanted to get a dedicated piece of hardware ala the Steam Deck or a Raspberry Pi or something, so Indie devs would have a spec to target to ensure smooth gameplay while not having to do any kind of special build since it would run normal Linux. A proper Linux Console

I also wanted to design a custom controller for it. I actually got the PCB designed, but never made it and never made the enclosure. It was gonna be kinda like the new Horis where it’s half-modern controller/half-SNES controller, only mine is based on the XBox layout not the PlayStation’s, and also I had the buttons oriented somewhat like a gamecube, with a big “main” button, a smaller secondary button, and two auxiliary buttons (tho arranged in XBox order still)

Maybe I’ll come back to the project someday.

More like the cooler cooler RHEL, the cooler RHEL, and RHEL

Tbf the devs said “compatibility layer”

What they’re referring to is that when you use tabs, you end up having some things at the end of lines have to be spaced over for alignment. Thus, you then have to turn on some way of seeing what stuff is tabs and what stuff is spaces and it turns into a big mess.

Hence why normal people indent with spaces instead of hard tabs