I can confirm focusrite scarlet interfaces work fine, and the uv1 should be fine as well but I don’t have one. You may need to get familiar with the Linux audio landscape. VSTs mostly work these days, although I only use foss VSTs so maybe commercial ones have their own caveats.

For pro audio you should be using JACK to connect your sound devices. These days if you run a system that uses pipewire, pipewire can pretend to be a JACK server just fine. I like to use QJackCtl to set up Jack environments, although its not necessary because many DAWs are capable of setting up in the application.

For a DAW I used to love Ardour, now I still like it but am sad that it has been crashing often for me. I don’t use any of them but there are some well liked Linux daws like reaper.

You may have trouble with recording without a preemptable (aka real-time) kernel. Afaict this only matters on lower end computers or when you have a lot of live plugins running, but using a kernel with this feature just means that more kernel code can be interrupted to handle things like fresh audio data arriving over USB.

Mostly, you’ll need some time to get everything working how you want. I agree with the recommendation to use a separate disk in your existing computer for Linux, or get a whole separate computer. The nice thing about using a separate disk is you can know for sure your windows setup is available if needed. For me I slowly left windows behind, only realizing later that it has been a year or more since I last fired it up.

I think part of that sentiment is also I’m not a threat to the government please don’t kill me

Linux vtty forever! Can’t cat data into the framebuffer when your desktop is getting in the way!!

Jk I use gnome terminal for everything, or whatever default is available. It’s quite amazing that most of them handle all but the most niche terminal features these days.

When I need to install a terminal emulator for some reason I always go for urxvt… but it is pretty terrible (it’s a great vt but mouse interaction is clunky and graphics are old school) compared to pretty much everything else.

Get a construction job so you can continue to enjoy coding

Ya I agree with this

Also notepad++ on wine on Linux … Not my favorite but it’s there

Alternatively, if you can create a new user, you can instead clear your home folder. Usually just requires renaming ~/.config but some systems put config in other places.

Well one day I heard about NixOS… And that’s all it took

Less, then “vim -” after I realize I don’t know how to use less.

If you ever need a reeally stupid way to sanitize deleted data without special privileges, just fill the disk up with some files then delete them. On Linux this is easy with cat and /dev/zero or urandom. Can’t be sure it gets everything but it’s better than doing nothing.

People are worried about losing skills to AI while all the skills have already been lost to Google and stack exchange 😅

🤣 same

Lol reading the source has trained me to try reading the documentation.

If it’s good, it’ll save hours or crawling through code.

Something something they do sometimes

Pretty sus :P

I would start by removing the graphics card if you have integrated graphics available (or disable the PCI port in your bios)

This reminds me of the kinds of issues I would get when setting up overclocking and getting just past the limit of stable operation. If you have overclocking set up definitely try disabling it.

If removing the GPU does nothing don’t forget to check removing each ram stick separately, or make sure your bios runs a full memory check.

🤣

Pycharm has a Linux release

And enforces the value of installing documentation and source packages 😅

It’s even better if your only internet connection is that computer you broke.

Lol wrong again