Preach man, Fedora worked great for everything except the COPR for yabridge was no up to date and you had to go through command line hell to get it to work. I switched a while after that to PopOS which I use now.

I’m a fairly capable tech guy, but I’m an artist. I wanna make music at 3 am when I have a song stuck in my head, not troubleshoot.

Yabridge works on my install of PopOS, but the VSTs that I use just don’t work except for one. And I spent around $300 on them collectively over the last 9 years or however long its been.

Also annoying that I can’t look at YouTube at all while Reaper is open. Straight up won’t play the video. Not great when I’m trying to troubleshoot why a VST isn’t working and I have to close the program I’m trying to troubleshoot.

Despite my issues with Music production, I’m still glad I switched to Linux. I don’t have to worry about my PC shutting off randomly to do updates, I can install whatever software I want, no one spies on me, I’m loving it for all those reasons.

I am giving up on making music in Linux, but aside from that, everything else will be done on my main machine. I’m making an offline only Windows box specifically for music production and nothing else. No internet access. It will only access my local network for file transfer.

In short, totally agree, but I paid money for Windows only VSTs years ago before i switched and they sound too good man. Also Reaper keeps crashing with native linux VSTs so really not here for that.

If you can do everything on Linux, that’s great. Its just less stable and polished for creative work IMO.

This is why I like Lemmy, never knew canvas blocker was a thing. Thank you.

That makes sense, was thinking of buying a new KVM so that’s likely the path I’ll take.

Much appreciated.

Unfortunately its a no name KVM I bought used off eBay so no specs I can find, but I think you and Blue_Morpho hit the nail on the head.

I’m going to do some testing after work and see if I can maybe find specs, maybe a workaround if there is one. Was thinking of buying a new KVM anyways so if all else fails, I’ll just shop around.

Thank you very much for your help.

Just reading the title, sounded like a great way to automate racism.

And then I read:

This is just AI Phrenology, a continuation of the “scientific racism” movement that was invented to provide a justification for colonialism, slavery, genocide and eugenics

So uh yea, doesn’t seem like a great idea.

Wasn’t a fan of mint when I tried it. IMO, I found popOS to be an overall better experience when I first started using Linux and have since switched back to it after having a few issues on Fedora.

You might give that a shot especially if you are using nivida. PopOS hasn’t given me much grief (aside from Gnome but that’s more a personal distaste for it)

Even after being on Linux for a year and considering myself a fairly capable guy in tech, Linux is kind of a pain in the ass if you’re doing more complicated things like in my case music production.

But it sounds like you’ve had an even worse go doing normal things which sucks. I feel for you man. I hope your next go is better.

It took me a few tries and Windows being a privacy nightmare to switch. It can be done but it wasn’t (and still isnt) easy.

I typically buy parts and peripherals from Amazon. Newegg can be good for the mail in rebates or discounts that you can get.

I typically don’t shop at bestbuy unless I have to but I also live 20 minutes outside of town where I am so thats 40 minutes of driving that I don’t wanna do typically.

Keychron was my last keyboard purchase, very happy with it. Full size mechanical keyboard, replaceable switches, so heavy I could probably kill someone with it, good keyboard.

Edit: I’m in the US so didn’t think of micro center off the bat, but great option if you have access.