My issue would be the old version of Qt it runs on, which is not maintained anymore. That itself is a bit of a problem security-wise.

You think it’s the screen/hdmi at fault, but it might not be. I’ve had the problem with two laptops in the past (the bug was with all distros I tried), and in one case it was a BIOS that Linux didn’t like, and the second one was the internal wifi that its linux driver was buggy. For the first laptop there was nothing to be done, so I disabled sleep completely in the bios, while for the second one, I disabled the wifi modules in the kernel’s blacklist, and then used a usb wifi that I knew it worked better. Both cases were appearing as a dead screen, but it wasn’t the screen/hdmi/gfx card to blame. In yet another case, with a thinkpad laptop, the wake up was working, but it would wake up 30 seconds later than anticipated. In that case, it was the fact that its thunderbolt was dead (hardware had gone bad), and only when I disabled it in the bios completely the laptop would wake up correctly and fast.

In all those cases, I had to look at the kernel logs to see what was the issue. There were traces of the problem of which hardware exactly was creating the problem. It might look like a screen/hdmi problem, but most of the times, it’s not.

Use Talon with Cinnamon and Linux Mint, which still uses X11.

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Waking up from sleep is of course part graphics card/drivers, and BIOS code. My husband had his share with his nvidia card crashing the system when coming up from sleep under Wayland, but I believe these things have been mostly ironed now. However, if you have a buggy BIOS, you’re out of luck. I’ve had such a DELL laptop, latest firmware installed, and no matter which distro I tried, it wouldn’t wake up from sleep properly. So, if that’s your issue, there’s not much you can do, apart from getting compatible hardware. There are hardware lists of compatible hardware in some places, including archlinux’s wiki i believe.

iOS is only massive in the US, everywhere else, Android has a huge market share.

Honestly, if these laptops also have Intel gpus, just use these to do your 2D work. And if you feel adventurous, then install the 390 drivers as secondary, only for the apps that need computing (e.g. Blender). For anything else, just use Intel, they work great for both video and 2D desktop acceleration.

That’s a rather expensive laptop you got there… I personally bought a used Thinkpad x280 for $160, and I run Linux on there. Another option is to get an small computer (sbc) with at least 8 gb of ram, if you already have a monitor.

It’s not working properly. No AAC support either. I also used to use the Dehancer plugin for it which unfortunately has bugs under Linux.

Resolve doesn’t do what Ableton does. It’s more of an audio processor and editor (like Audacity), but not a real DAW for music.

If you’re into gaming distros, another new kid on the block, based on Debian-Testing, is PikaOS. They have a KDE version.

There are several commercial options for Linux. The most-Ableton software out there is Bitwig Studio that has a Linux port. However, it’s expensive. The cheapest commercial solution, with a bit of learning curve but powerful nonetheless, is Reaper.

However, if you want to go 100% open source, there’s Ardour and LMMS (which is a lot like FL Studio). Ardour 9, which is expected by the end of the year, will be more MIDI-friendly than it used to be. LMMS latest git version (offered as binary on their site) has some good new features compared to their stable version, however, there’s still no vst3 support.

I’m an visual artist and I used Photoshop for years to edit my hand-painted scanned paintings. When I moved to Linux, and Gimp3 was out, I was finally ready to leave Photoshop behind. Some features of Photoshop aren’t there, but I was ready to leave them behind. Same with video, I used to have a rather popular blog about color grading with Resolve. I moved to kdenlive, which has none of these tools or plugins. It’s a decision that I simply had to make. I wanted to use foss tools, and that was the price to pay. I’m cool with my decision.

If you gotta go commercial, go with Reaper. The people (a small team of 3 or 4 I believe) behind it are really cool, and they’re doing it for the love of it, their profit is very small.

Ι’d suggest you try another kernel. This sounds like a kernel/driver issue, since the ssd seems to be healthy. Mint lets you pick from newer kernels, from within the update app. This might solve your issue, or you might want to upgrade to 22.1 too.

usb wifi dongles for $7 is the cheaper solution, not the internal module. I have some and they work fine with linux.

Your best bet is a secondary M2 slot, there are some laptops that allow for that. You install windows on the first, main ssd. Then you DISABLE that ssd (or you unplug it intenrally), you install linux on the second ssd, and then you enable back the first one. Then you can select using F12 during boot which ssd you want to boot from, by default it’d be windows.

I see you’re from Germany. Well, Tuxedo computers have many laptop models with two ssds in it.

Mine needs 1.3 GB with an itunes library of 160 gb.

Jellyfin music server. It needs about 1.2 GB of RAM for itself, plus the system.

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The reality is, to get these Windows VSTs to work on Linux, is possible via 2-3 ways, but they’re crashy, and sometimes will work, and after an OS upgrade might stop working (as it happened last year with yabridge under ubuntu) etc. The truth is, you can’t rely 100% on these VSTs anymore under Linux, it’s too hairy of a situation overtime. You might be able to get it working for a project, and two years later to try to reload that project, only to have these plugins not working anymore, so the project would crash on you and not be able to load it anymore.

If you want to switch to Linux, you will need to use the well supported, native plugins only that get updated regularly for new linux versions. Yes, it’s a waste of money for your existing purchases, but this is what’s true for everyone who have ever bought Windows software in the past, and they’re now switching to Linux. Maybe you can sell them?

Alternatively, use Windows for your audio work, and if you want to stay on Windows 10, make sure that this computer is not on the internet connected anymore (due to not receive security updates anymore), and use Linux for your everyday computer tasks.

Look at QCad. They have a paid ($40), and a free version that is fully functional and open source. It’s the most autocad-like app out there, so learning that has the advantage of learning the UI of autocad too.

LibreCad that others suggested was forked from Qcad about 15 years ago and hasn’t moved much in terms of features. While QCad has. So in my opinion, it’s the best solution.

Then there’s Freecad, but that’s more about 3D cad, and it’s more complicated overall.