Aaand you can install exe-s very easily using heroic. I’ve install legacy games (win98/dos) and ive also installed modern apps like Ableton live 11 using heroic. Once Ive nailed the method it’s super simple. Since there’s only a few options to F around with it was fairly easy to experiment till it works

I’ve done it after some struggles. But if I remember right the key was installing dosbox (staging) and pointing at the exe on heroic rather than leave it to the app to decide. I think. It’s my son’s birthday today so give me a shout and I’ll go through my settings later tonight if needed. But yh I remember the frustration. Also I just remembered there’s a tickbox on the advanced panel about some 3 letter word. Ticking that was also essential matter of fact that might be the only important thing. Sorry for being vague. I’ll get some facts later today

Dua works pretty great for me

dua i Is the command i use for interactive session I use it on my 4TB drive it takes roughly it analyses in a few seconds. It’s biggest directories first.

Ableton - Digital Audio Workspace MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface Scarlette 2i2 - Audio interface

Compatibility,dependencies are the most important things when it comes to digital studio machines. At least that’s what my 15yrs of audio engineering experience taught me. Not sure how I didn’t addressed any of that my dude but if you wanna hate I’m here for it. You hate my choices for the sake of it I love yours for the same reason

What was the question then? Wasn’t it about the distro of my choice and how it handles packages specifically about media creation? I fell like you folks just saw nix decided “nah f this guy” but ok I get it. Ps.: Im self aware if you read the last few lines

Dude I started with nixos. If don’t want to do your linux hackeroo just use the machine it’s no fuss but I know Im a weirdo. 😂🤷🏽‍♂️

I went for Nixos (distro) with Plasma (desktop environment). Nixos has a great package manager (99% of the things there just work)and the way you install things is essentially having a list of your packages/apps. Deleting them is just as easy and the best part is that it’s totally gone, no lingering random files that could bite me in the future. If you mess up your configuration bad it’ll force you to stay the working version if you don’t like what you did you’ll revert it. Plasma has incredible defaults and you can click around in it to fine tune to your liking. Plug things into plasma is just works at least for me. I’ve plugged midi controllers, audio interface, dock, hdmi, game controllers first try no fuss. Oh I’m sure other distros have this as well but fun fact if your bt is on and the laptop is connected to a speaker you can just connect your phone (or any other bt source) and use your laptop as a bt speaker. And I mean it just works again. Yeah sure you need to pair it first. But boy oh boy Im playing on the tv and i can just bt to it and play my tunes like it’s nothing. Back to the question in hand. I have a windows version of Ableton 11 that I installed there with 3rd party vst 2 and 3 plugins figuring that one out took me longer but it was in front of me all the time so in hindsight that wasn’t too hard either. So that was my new generation Arch btw xD aka NixOS btw. The tl dr is that I find Nixos with KDE Plasma 6 having very friendly defaults that can be built on if and when you ready

Nixos Is my first distro I use on desktop. I’m not sure why but I guess the fact that it won’t build till it checks Is a huge plus for me. I love to f up things to learn from them but I don’t like broken things and oh boy. Nix keeps me in the clean, safe. Don’t get me wrong im doing stupid stuff all the time but just cus i have a few configs written down i can learn a lot. Or a little that amazes me lol

Been there done that 🥲

I host many other things on that hardware. But it’s a small 1 litre pc. Sterling pdf is eating the least from there. I tried but I cant stop listing what i have. It is a 6 core gen 10 i5 w 32 gb RAM. Proxmox as hypervisor running two Debian VMs. I think I run 30+ services on it but again sterlingPDF is least of my concerns there. If you don’t have the hardware I genuinely believe you can run it locally without any issues or you can run it on a potato

Just to add the noise: I use Sterling pdf which i host and dear god it has so many functions that i never knew existed

I’ll give that a go thanks

Dark reader is getting my browser slow lately. Is it just me?

Many might not like or bored with this answer but NixOS. It has more fresh packages than AUR. You can pin your version if you want or you can do what i did: i have most of my packages on stabile(which is super reliable and mostly fast to catch up) but I’ve defined that i want some from the unstable channel which is basically the cutting edge. Yes there are a few things missing when it comes to desktop apps but can use flatpack for those. On top of that you can program the whole OS to your liking and it won’t build if you fckup or you can roll back on boot if you don’t like what you’ve done. I’ve installed nixos to make my penguin friend shutup and now it’s my safe space really.