How is Debian beginner friendly? Quite far from it imho

Like together? Probably not

You might like Arch, especially now that it has installer, I wouldn’t consider it hard to setup and use. Also you’re not even new to Linux so youll handle it easily

I saw that right after donating, right after restarting my laptop after long time and seing the notification. I saw the chart and was like “dang, there was more poeple like me, also xmass time or smh” xD

No idea why you consider KDE buggy. Maybe the distro you’ve used ships old version or the build is low quality, maybe it’s the matter of using Wayland vs X11 and outdated NVIDIA drivers? For me, the current Plasma 6.2 is rock solid on multiple machines.

Other than that, for try this https://github.com/diodon-dev/diodon Or this https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ

Part of such apps do work already if they use libusb, which is for instance Playstation controller updater.

What do you mean

Initial version of a Bluetooth driver

Will Wine apps be able to interact with Bluetooth? That could be useful for stuff liks ODB2 scanners

What games though

O thanks! I needed glxgears equivalent for Wayland at some point

My bet is it tries to default to mode that your display doesn’t like, probably because of some wrong info in monitor’s EDID downloaded from the connector, but that’s just my guess.

Before booting, use key e on grub menu, locate line where there is initrd to pass boot parameters. You can force modes using video= parameter, and you can also replace/modify your EDID. Refer to section # Forcing modes and EDID on this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_mode_setting

These changes can also be achieved permanently by editing /etc/default/grub and regenerating its configuration, in case you use grub.

Easiest would be to have separate extra monitor temporarily or another computer to connect over SSH, but if those low “safe” graphics modes work, that can probably do also.

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Interesting! The UI looks like it uses GTK for drawing widgets?

Wow, after all this they’re still in the denial stage of grief, not knowing they continue to harm themselves

Depends on what is most desired. Plasma is the most complete and feature rich desktop experience on Linux at the moment. The most polished one? Certainly not.

As for Windows plugins with no native Linux version, there are ways to use VSTs over Wine. Check out Yabridge project. There’s no guarantee that 100% of plugins will work, but many do pretty well. It requires some additional setup, but once it’s done, you don’t have to think about it much, just call yabridgectl when you add new plugins to sync them (it creates stub library that is seen as Linux native, but it wraps Windows plugin using Wine)

Reaper is perfectly fine choice if you’re already familiar with it, but here are some other you may want to look at:

FOSS Options:

• Ardour - it’s pretty old, UX is not perfectly intuitive, basically GIMP of the audio world, but it can do everything you’d expect a professional DAW to do, while being incredibly lightweight. It’s straightforward to install on any Linux system.
• Zrhythm - it’s a new DAW that didn’t have a stable release yet, but it’s on 1.0 RC1 so I guess it’s pretty close. It has some promising user interface and feature set, also easy to get installed, but might not be super solid just yet.

Commercial options:

• Bitwig Studio - probably the best audio workstation for Linux, but also the most expensive.
• Waveform Tracktion - I personally had mixed experience with it. On one hand the UX and flow is quite good (not as flexible as ardour, way more opinionated, but still fully functional and easier to use), but I had bad time dealing with a large project as the editor becomes extremely sluggish as your project grows.