For me it’s PeppermintOS.

I started my Linux adventure a few years ago, and haven’t owned a Windows PC since.

I currently use Arch on my main rig, and I wanted to install Linux on two old laptops that I found laying around in my house

I then remembered the first distro I ever used, which is PeppermintOS, and I was amazed at the latest updates they released.

They even have a mini ISO now to do a net-install with no bloat, with a Debian or Devuan base.

Sadly, I believe the founder passed away a few years ago, which is why I was really happy to see the continuation of this amazing project.

  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
    2·
    1 year ago

    So, I have only ever known Windows, but am becoming more and more Linux curious. I see all these different distros you guys talk about and I have to ask, do all the distros run any of the available software or would I have to try to try to find one that will run what I’m interested in running? If so which distro will run the available music production software? I’m sick of microshaft. Help a brother out?

    • ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today
      2·
      1 year ago

      So my intuition and guesses from what I’ve heard is that Fedora might be the best for you.

      Here are some links:

      https://labs.fedoraproject.org/jam/ https://linuxmusicians.com/ https://archive.ph/hYxrO

      Not sure if oudated:

      https://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/fdocs/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Musicians_Guide/index.html

      https://fedoramagazine.org/configure-fedora-to-practise-and-compose-music/

      If you want to use NixOS, the one I recommend elsewhere, I’m not sure what your experience will be whether good or bad. Probably more fiddling, but more flexible/stable in the long run.

      Here is a matrix room if you are interested in asking more knowledgable people about that path:

      https://app.element.io/#/room/#audio:nixos.org

      • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
        1·
        1 year ago

        Writing music and making files for my 3d printer is most of what I do with a computer anymore. What I’m not trying to do is make a separate hobby of OS trialing. I’m worried I won’t be able to find drivers for my audio interface, hell I’m running it on an old Win7 driver in Win10 now. Payday is Friday, and I will be ordering a second SSD to quarantine this experiment on. For now I read and pester random folks on the Internet for opinions. I appreciate your suggestions, for sure.

        • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          What you need to do is install Oracle Virtual box on your pc.

          Then download a Linux distribution: I’d recommend Linux Mint

          Install it virtually on Virtualbox.

          Then connect your audio equipment to the pc and in Virtualbox use the menu to send that device from Windows to Linux.

          Look for the menu called devices or something like that. It will just the various inputs it sees eg. Usb, SCSI, aux etc and you can select that and then select the attached device. That will send the device signal to Linux.

          Then see if you can see the device in Linux.

          If not research whether you need a driver or a particular application. The best place to ask about drivers is from the device manufacturer. If they don’t exist anymore then Google it. Eg Linux driver for [device name] or Ubuntu driver for [device name]

          If you can get it to work then you’re set and you can install Linux as your main OS. or just use it in the VM. If there are no drivers and it doesn’t work, stay on Windows.

          Just be aware it’s the device manufacturer that should make the driver, whether for Windows or Linux. Sometimes the Linux community will make their own driver if the OEM doesn’t. I haven’t seen that happen on Windows. On Windows if the OEM doesn’t make one, you either use an old one or get a new audio device 🤷

    • Klaymore@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      Most distros are almost exactly the same, NixOS and Guix are a bit different but if you get Ubuntu or Fedora or PopOS or something they all work fine.

    • aramus@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s what I mean with distrobox. You decide to run distribution A. Later you realize a package(program) is not available in A but in distribution B. So you run distrobox and have B on top of A. And access to all the packages.