I own a MacBook Air basically for GarageBand and other DAWs. I know how to get Jack to work. Pipewire made life easier. Still, music production on linux still sucks butts.

Too many butts for me to do anything other than other computer things and programming.

The differences do seem enormous when one first encounters linux. They shrink every install though, but it takes some time for the magic to wear off.

I am having so much fun reading things. Makes me feel better about my disaster, but my mistake does not touch most of these.

On a real life related note, I surprised everyone around me when I managed to overturn a ski jet, which apparently doesn’t really happen. I too can do the improbable. Hah.

DEs get so wonky if you try to change them. I wish it was easier to compartmentalize an envirionment.

I would be mortified. He seems shameless though, hah.

Neat. I will try that once photorec finishes its search in like a month from now.

Nice! I need to learn recovery methods. I am so used to scorch earthing an install when it goes wrong, which is not useful.

Honestly a thesis is way higher stakes and value. Yeah, imagine thinking there was an emergency only to find out your roommate will need to spend the rest of the semester using their imagination.

That is is a special kind grieving.

Love Antix! It is like the grandfather to MX Linux, but also the little baby?

THANK YOU EVERYONE who recommended PHOTOREC! This community is fantastic.

I guess I can try it, since I did not like, wipe everything.

I am finally getting around to doing this! I will admit, I had Windows on all of my machines… I first rehabilitated my laptop, and I finally brought back my main desktop from hell.

Running the script. Let’s see what my computer becomes!

Everything you typed out was a painful rediscovery on my part. I basically had to ignore my principles at every moment, but using Windows eventually became too gross, I had to get out.

For the money I spent experimenting with proprietary software, I could have donated to projects making the alternatives.

This is not a lesson I will need to learn again.

Rent-seeking. That is a term I finally see defined.

I do not mind buying software, it is continuously paying for it that feels wrong.

I had the same feeling too, like I had to strip off all my clothes just to enter a the party.

I will not be doing that again.

Oh I know! I cliced the wrong congiguration setting. It was a trifle to get all the files back, but it took some time it make me realize I do not want program that would even do that.

I just wanted to see if I was missing something, but the programs I trialing are either way too expensive or do not do anything better than what is available to linux.

Studio One looks amazing! I am super interested in spatial audio.

I have so much to learn.

Nice!! Linux has so many options for DAWs I never realized.