Of all the things to take from windows, this is one of the better ones. Especially if it gets more info in the future. For less tech-literate users, a screen like this is a lot better than a hard to read dump to a terminal.

It looks like it works in KDE 6, albeit a bit janky. Might be worth seeing if it works now, and if not come back in a year or so. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR_monitor_support

Hopefully HDR can get crossed off that list soon

I’ve actually moved away from vlc. It’s had some weird issues with videos that MPV doesn’t have. Plus, MPV has a much simpler interface which I like. I’ve also learned how to use ffmpeg to convert media so I don’t need that functionality from vlc anymore.

It’s still a great program though, especially for windows where there’s not many better options.

https://www.reaper.fm/

Reaper. Great usability and decent Linux support out of the box (looking at you, davinci resolve). Generous free trial and a cheap one-time payment for a license. LMMS has served me well and is fine for basic stuff, but reaper is a whole other level, both in features and usability. I’ve heard good things about ardour too but have yet to give it a try.

huh, I’ve never heard that term before. Idk if that makes the name ableist though, since it clearly means something else, unlike the switch from master to main for git, where that name was used in the same way as the offensive context. Also the word “gimp” has another more well-known meaning… which I guess isn’t that much better. Yeah idk maybe they should change the name lol.

How is the name ableist?

You can get a really cool, coherent story of any length you want by writing one or hiring a writer.

Tbf I think the way its federation works is inherently incompatible.

I could be entirely wrong though

These have both saved my ass on numerous occasions. Btrfs especially is pretty amazing.

Mint would probably work for you. Some stuff is outdated, but it has flatpak which is a package manager with more up to date apps. If you’re willing to put in the time though, I’d recommend trying some of the more common distros out (Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora). You can use a liveusb to test them without installing.

Steam is available anywhere so that’s not a problem.

Discord officially only has a .deb package, so that’s only for Debian based distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint). There are other options for almost all distros though - I personally use Webcord

Fl studio might be tricky - supposedly it runs through wine but you might have to do a bit of work. I’ve personally used Reaper and I works great.

Someone already gave an answer, but the reason it’s done that way is because on Linux, generally programs don’t install themselves - a package manager installs them. Windows (outside of the windows store) just trusts programs to install themselves, and include their own uninstaller.

/bin, since that will include any basic programs (bash, ls, cd, etc.).

Looks like freesync was the issue - I turned off the setting in my monitor and the issue hasn’t reoccurred. Thanks for figuring that out!

Yeah the fan blades are in place, I’ve stress tested it… Don’t see how this is related to the issue at hand though.

Pretty sure, I got it locally on a college campus from someone upgrading their gaming PC

I think that was me opening the terminal to run journalctl lol

By encryption you mean disk encryption? I’m not using that so hopefully won’t have to do anything

Also I looked up that ftpum stuttering issue and it doesn’t match with what I’m seeing. It’s not a stutter, just a complete freeze of the screen for a solid second, and then it returns to being completely normal.

During the minute that one of these freezes happened, this is the log output:

Mar 30 12:14:42 HAL rtkit-daemon[1238]: Supervising 12 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Mar 30 12:14:42 HAL rtkit-daemon[1238]: Supervising 12 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Mar 30 12:14:42 HAL rtkit-daemon[1238]: Supervising 12 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Mar 30 12:14:42 HAL rtkit-daemon[1238]: Supervising 12 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Mar 30 12:14:42 HAL rtkit-daemon[1238]: Supervising 12 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Mar 30 12:14:39 HAL rtkit-daemon[1238]: Supervising 12 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Mar 30 12:14:39 HAL rtkit-daemon[1238]: Supervising 12 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Mar 30 12:14:06 HAL systemd[1880]: Started VTE child process 5674 launched by gnome-terminal-server process 5653.
Mar 30 12:14:06 HAL systemd[1880]: Started GNOME Terminal Server.
Mar 30 12:14:06 HAL dbus-daemon[1892]: [session uid=1000 pid=1892] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal'
Mar 30 12:14:06 HAL systemd[1880]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server...
Mar 30 12:14:06 HAL systemd[1880]: Created slice Slice /app/org.gnome.Terminal.
Mar 30 12:14:06 HAL dbus-daemon[1892]: [session uid=1000 pid=1892] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gnome.Terminal' unit='gnome-terminal-server.service' requested by ':1.108' (uid=1000 pid=5650 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-terminal>
Mar 30 12:13:53 HAL rtkit-daemon[1238]: Supervising 12 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Mar 30 12:13:53 HAL rtkit-daemon[1238]: Successfully made thread 5636 of process 1889 owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.