Good morning,

Now that you know about Ardour, there are some other DAW's I could recommend before I get into today's main topic: those being LMMS, Qtractor, Zrythm, Rosegarden, MusE and of course, Ardour (As I had talked about a bit). These are all Free Software DAW's for any musicians looking to make the switch to GNU/Linux operating systems for your work.

TL;DR: GNU/Linux is a family of operating systems using the Linux Kernel and the GNU Core Utilities. For beginners into these systems, I would recommend Linux Mint for Windows users and Pop_OS! by System76 for Mac users. Tutorials are on the CoculesNation YouTube and Odysee channels.

Speaking of, what is GNU/Linux anyway? GNU/Linux is a structure of the Linux Kernel [https://kernel.org] and the GNU Core Utilities [https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/] that make up operating systems using these two tools, which are time tested to be good alternatives to Windows and MacOS.

Now, I get what you may be asking: "Neigsendoig, where in the world do you start in terms of learning GNU/Linux?"

If you take a look at my YouTube or Odysee archives for CoculesNation (though I'm still posting to those), you'll find that I had done tutorials on Linux Mint, which is a great GNU/Linux flavor (or what we call a distribution, or a distro for short) for those making the switch from Windows to Linux. For Mac users, Pop_OS! by System76 would be a good idea for you, since GNOME (pronounced 'g,noʊm̩) is very similar to the feel of HackOS's GUI (Sorry, I had to, Apple fanboys). Yes, you can install GNOME on Mint if you wanted to as well.

Mint and Pop are both Ubuntu-based distributions focused for beginners specifically, since Ubuntu, based upon Debian, focuses on stability, albeit with old versions of software. I would recommend Mint if you're a Windows user, and maybe Pop of you're a MacOS user. If you use Mint, I would not grab the ISO with MATE, since that breaks. I would use XFCE if you're on a low-spec computer, or Cinnamon if you have the resources.

I have Cinnamon installed, since that is the flagship DE Mint comes with (The Mint devs actually are behind Cinnamon). However, on top of that I have i3 installed, which is a dynamic tiling window manager. I will get into those in a future post, and give you the differences between desktop environments (DE) and window managers (WM).

More posts to come on other things. Feel free to give me ideas, questions or comments on what I am talking about if you feel so called to.