Fedora is known to be a good middle ground, and that's why Linus Torvalds is running it on its work machine. But Fedora is more GNOME focus, while it does not stop you from using KDE, if you're on Xubuntu you might want to consider Kubuntu.

Same, however it's worth noting that flatpaks are not giving us the proper sandboxed experience it promises to offer and many are packages like crap.

The thing is that Flatpak failed at providing good sandboxing. Some flatpaks are well made such as as Firefox, Mozilla really put effort into getting something well packaged but unfortunately that's not the standard. Most of them are packaged like shit or for the better ones they are not as well packages as the distro official packages that have stronger quality assurance. Of course many apps only have debian or arch support and flatpaks does bring wider Linux based OS support which is cool and I do run some flatpaks on my devices.

But I hope we will have something better that will properly be sandboxed and have stronger requirements for packager to offer a global GNU/Linux publishing experience regardless of the distro, even if it comes with some drawbacks like size.

I am not hating on flatpaks but I think people over estimate the sandbox aspect and simply don't see how poorly most of them are packaged.

Reaper is the DAW for audio-engineers that is well supported on GNU/Linux.

FL Studio can works well with Wine or VM but its plugins are another story.

A few WebApps worth knowing (might not suit heavy usage):

• https://drumha.us/
• https://composeyogi.com/compose

There is also LMMS but this is more for small hobbyst rather than serious work.

You might wanna try running in a VM or WinBoat and maybe it's worth asking on the CrossOver forum to see how well things run with CO.

You can have immuability without loosing tinkering possibilities. I do that on NixOS.

The more I learn the more I don't want flatpaks on my machine so of course I am requiring something else than SteamOS or bazzite.

Just have fun with your machine, learning is better when you are not forced to read the fucking manual. Of course you might need to do it but do it when you have the time on something you need to.

Of course distro-related forums are a great place to start, the legendary Arch Linux Wiki is a great place (even for other distros) and I know this might be contreversial but LLMs nowadays can be useful at explaining these kind of stuff to you, especially if you feed them the adequat ressources.

how to do this, best ways to achieve that etc

Often there is multiple best ways to achieve stuff and people are not agreeing on how. Of course there is often consensus on how NOT to do but doing and learning is better in my opinion than not doing because you're scared it's not the best way. Just do it!

oh, I need to look into it again for my old macbook.

Asahi while being an incredible project, that I fully support the people working on it, is not very usable.

It's running, sure, but you will miss very important hardware features such as hardware acceleration and speaker. You cannot tell someone "Buy a supported mac and install Asahi on it!" it's not honest about what how your software will utilized your hardware.

You can use nixpkgs and brew on macOS.

I have both kernel (GNU/Linux and XNU/darwin(macOS)) and even if there is tons of stuff I don't like with macOS and their non-repairable hardware I have to admit that battery life, trackpad feeling, monitor, speaker and build quality are very hard to beat.

But unfortunately due to the undocumented arm architecture of Apple Silicon you will have hard time running GNU/Linux on M macs.

My MacBook is my last non-linux based machine as of today and I have difficulties switching it even if I want it very bad, some of my software don't run well on Linux even through Wine/CrossOver and the battery life and idle power are the main reason why I am still using a lockdown OS on one of my laptop.

Yeah fuck the video codec mafia and all these proprietary shits like HDMI

I am not excited to have Linux-kernel anti cheat spyware on my machine, but I guess it's good to free gamers from Microslop monopoly.

Just install GrapheneOS on your device and AI is pretty much gone

I think you confuse security and privacy. Samsung are pretty secure from what I saw. They are not private at all however. You can debloat it with adb and maybe tools such as Universal Android Debloater.

There is a couple of guide such as this one: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1402380-ultimate-samsung-oneui-debloat-privacy-customization-guide/

It really depend on your threat model, Proton Pass is fine. Of course a self-hosted or local solution will be more privacy friendly but at the cost of being responsable for security and good backups (3,2 1 rule).

There is no black or white regarding privacy. You want to ask yourself what you want to protect from and is the investment worth being sovereign ?

Sure, I won't play.

I agree on this with the exception of PIA.

• Marketing is BS like most VPN
• Company is based in the USA
• They do analytics
• You cannot register "anonymously"

It's not the worst VPN you could choose but there is better options.

Bluesky is not much better than X despite it claiming to

Yes selfhosting it is awesome but it's definitely not the simplest service to do host.

If you wan't to use FOSS I get it, I want to. But when it comes to professionnal workflow you sometimes have to put your ego on the side. When I tried to ditch the Adobe Suite, the Free(dom) alternatives didn't worked for me or the proprietary alternatives were simply better.

Inkscape is great but Affinity Designer is superior in many regards and even it is inferior to Adobe Illustrator. GIMP and Krita are awesome tools, honestly GIMP3 makes me want to play more with it and Krita is an awesome digital painting software, one of the best out there. But for photo editing Affinity Photo is still better for my workflow even if I still prefer to use Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

The new redesign of Scribus in unstable is exciting but I don't see myself using it for professionnal work. Affinity Publisher is just better and yes again Adobe InDesign is still superior.

I've almost fully ditched Adobe (with the exception of Photoshop), I often try Free and Open Source alternatives and while some are good enough none can compare to Adobe who is leading the industry by the way, that's the sad truth as of today.

Here is a list of alternative to Adobe I've made : https://alternativeto.net/lists/25812/softwares-for-content-creators-that-don-t-want-to-supports-adobe-monopole-/

Edit : grammar and typos

LOL, they should patent video games in general to this point.