Thanks, interestingly Garuda was at the top of my list but maybe I’ll just stick to Mint and not be fancy. Bitwig always interested me and if I decided to go back to a DAW I’m definitely taking a second look because I have a tracker background from way back and the modularity and easy hardware integration look great. I’m not too concerned about the plugins so much as the hardware now, there is no official support for the Black Lion audio interface I bought but I’m assured it should work fine under ALSA and as I’m currently only needing it to record a stereo pair it should be fine. The plugins I use now are mainly compressors and EQs for some final mixing and “mastering” and there seems to be a decent amount of choices now for native plugins in those areas but I do have some favs I might need to bring over so I will check Yabridge. Look forward to getting my hands dirty again, hacking windows has just becoming getting rid of nuisances instead of customizing my computing experience.
I’m not a huge phone user to begin with so thats fine as long as I can change some colors here and there, I prefer less fancy tbh for instance I like the i386-dark theme here.