Glad to hear. Few remarks that I hope will help. I'll start with Wine to clarify it's a clutch. Sure it's a useful one but IMHO the beauty of Linux is that you are in control, you have more agency. Wine per se is great because it gives you more options. Unfortunately most of the time Wine is used to run what is not available in Linux and that is usually not open source. Consequently you bring with you little black boxes, spaces where you lose again control. The deeper problem IMHO is that you assume there are no alternatives. In truth in most cases there are numerous alternatives, they just aren't clones because having more freedom to explore means they can be genuinely new solutions with interfaces that are thus unfamiliar. So... yes enjoy Wine but I'd suggest to take just a bit of time to search and try open source alternatives. This lead me to an example. I work in VR so when you mentioned desktop view I thought it was interesting. Yes you don't have whatever M$ is proposing (honestly used it years ago with WMR but can't even recall it) but you have "simple" things like ALVR (I even use SteamVR on Steam Deck) and IMHO deeper explorations like XRdesktop https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xrdesktop/xrdesktop that allow you to manipulate actual windows in space, not "just" on a 2D plane. Anyway enjoy the discovery it's a worthwhile adventure. I work and play, VR or not, on Linux for years now, it's literally liberating!
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Personally, Ardour > Bitwig. Couldn't ever figure out how to do anything in Bitwig. Very complicated an unintuitive.
Ardour is also unintuitive but 1) I did eventually figure it out and 2) it's at least free
That sounds fantastic. Long term Linux user here. I hope you like the world of Linux and Free Software.
~~migrated [...] to Linux 10~~
~~I don't think there is a Linux 10. Arch has installer version numbers like 2023.09.01 After that~~ it's a 'rolling release' that means there are no version numbers, it changes continuously and is constantly updated.
Archlinux installation took me quite some time
That is correct. Arch Linux isn't recommended as a beginners distro. YMMV. If you managed to do it: Nice. You shouldn't have. But you're probably fine, now that it works and you've probably learned more in the process than lots of other people have in the first few weeks.
Music making
Make sure to also check out the free software for music making. "LMMS", "Ardour" and similar.
Gaming works out of the box with Steam
That's also my observation. Steam works fine. And Proton is awesome. Also, check out a few of the free games from your package repository. I like "0 A.D.", "Supertuxkart", "Super Tux Party", "Supertux", "Slingshot", "Mindustry", "Minetest", "Performous", "Sauerbraten", "Hedgewars", "X-Moto" Just to name a few. There are hundreds more.
I see you're using KDE (I love it too), have you had a look at KDE Connect? It's an app to connect your phone seamlessly with KDE, and it's one of the things Linux does way better than Windows
I love KDE Connect! And it's even available for Windows users. Great piece of software that can do so many things. I've used it on many occasions to quickly get a link or something like that from my PC, having the ability to share your clipboard is amazing.
It's also been my main "share the password manager file" application for the longest time before someone else on Lemmy recommended Syncthing. But KDE Connect is still fantastic!
I love the wii remote mouse thing in Connect, it's really nice when I want to interact with my computer, but am too lazy to get out of my bed to do so
I switched because w10 got too heavy for my old shitty laptop. Now I got new shitty laptop with w11 and will soon it will be cured by Linux.
My old laptop will retire as server.
Your suggestion for arch-based distros isn't the best. Tumbleweed is a more friendly alternative for those who want rolling.