For me, it was perhaps simple-scan, a very simple and efficient GUI to scan documents. I used it with my Brother printer / scanner and it works like a charm. Especially since I do not scan stuff often, so a program with more complex UI would have the effect that I forget how to use it until the next time.

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    Bitwig and Reaper. Two of the best music DAWs on the market and they each have a Linux native version.

    EDIT: I forgot to include Renoise, the music tracker DAW.

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      Yeah, Reaper is surprising! It’s in the Arch repos and Flathub.

      I would have been happy if I had to build it from source or download a random deb from their website. But, damn. It’s on Linux and easily installable!

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      I have been experimenting with Reaper a bit, but I am a sort of DAW noob, so it’s kind of hard to get in to. I’ve done a tiny bit using Lmms though, but I am missing synthesizer stuff in Reaper. I’ve tried installing plugins by putting them into the proper folders and let Reaper attempt to resolve it, but it doesn’t really work as expected.

      Any tips? Especially for Linux of course. Many of the tutorials are Windows oriented.

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        Reaper is like the Arch Linux of DAWs. It’s power is in its flexibility and customization. That said, I found it to be uninspiring in its complexity out of the box. That said, the Reaper community is amazing. If you want to mod and customize it into your ideal DAW,y recommendation is to hit the community forums, Discord, etc.

        Personally, I bounced from Reaper almost instantly in favor of Bitwig and Renoise on Linux.

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        I would start from the docs. There is pretty good reaper manual available from its homepage, covers everything from basic “how does one creates the prohect?” to relatively advanced topics.

        Most of the plugins I encountered have no native Linux version, but yabridge deals with most of them quite good. I personaly use it paired with Play on Linux to logically separate different groups of plugins and everything works like a charm.