proprietary software that I don't trust, or programs that aren't on zypper
It absolutely does. Godot is growing a LOT. I see it frequently in my local game dev community.
It costs $1000 to legally kill someone.
Not everyone feels like having a mascot fits with their branding
First off, I want to make it clear that the distro doesn't really matter. Different distros are just what it comes pre-packed with by default.
TLDR:
For something easy to use: Linux Mint
For something that has pre-installed audio software (but maybe not the ones you want): Ubuntu Studio
If you want to build your system from scratch: Debian (or Arch if you want the latest and greatest software, and don't mind the occasional update breaking your system around once a year or so, and needing to spend an hour fixing it)
Regardless of which distro you get, use JACK or PipeWire for your sound server. PulseAudio (on its own) has too much latency.
More details:
I first tried Ubuntu Studio. It comes with a lot of software related to audio production. But I found it to be insanely slow, and it didn't even come with Reaper anyway.
I tried OpenSUSE because I liked that it had the option to manually deselect the software you don't want (and I was too much of a beginner to know how to pick my packages from the ground-up). It worked well.
Eventually I moved to Debian. I didn't want any of the extra fluff and found it was pretty easy to choose everything myself. One thing that's important is that you don't want to use PulseAudio. Either use JACK (which I think needs to be used in conjunction with PulseAudio actually) or use PipeWire, which is what I use.
For any Windows software, use Bottles to emulate them on Linux. I actually ended up needing to go back to windows because of one audio software: Wwise. There was no way of running it in Linux. A VM probably would've worked, but that would've been a massive hassle for how I'd need to use it.
Free Linux VSTs: https://vital.audio/ https://lsp-plug.in/ https://github.com/TukanStudios/TUKAN_STUDIOS_PLUGINS
Paid Linux VSTs: https://www.acmt.co.uk/products/index.html https://librewave.com/ https://www.audiodamage.com/collections
I'm glad the option is available, but I still suggest people try using Reaper over Studio One. More powerful and more affordable.
Pipewire is much better than Pulseaudio, especially for pro audio work because of its low latency. Another popular option is JACK, which must be used in conjunction with Pulseaudio. Harder to set up, but is also great for pro audio. Some audio engineers were having issues with Pipewire when it first came out so they went back to using JACK, but I think Pipewire has improved. Pipewire has been flawless on my end.
If you're not in pro audio or any kind of multimedia work, it doesn't really matter and you can just stick with whatever comes pre-configured on your distro. But my vote goes to Pipewire as the best server for pretty much anyone.
Generally, people ride on sidewalks because the alternatives on the road are even more dangerous. I hope Olivia Chow really improves Toronto's bike/mobility lane network with something more than just a painted gutter lane.
That voice was really difficult to listen to. And then talking about how Bill Gates shoves left wing media down our throats and uses msnbc as an example lol
OpenSUSE checks everything except the part about enterprise influence. Mint maybe? I don't know much about it though.
You should probably actually say which 6 sources you're using. If we just have to take your word for the fact that it's 2 left, right, and centre sources, I'm going to assume that we have different opinions on what those words mean, and that it is indeed skewed to one side or another.
I didn't expect them to inject ketamine into a child