Your assessment of probability is speculation and I didn’t suggest you meant “always”.

That’s not necessarily true, I dual boot and I’ve been using Linux for my main OS for about 15 years now. I rarely use mine but it is useful/needed occasionally.

Mpd and Cantata. Deadbeef for playing from a directory or for conversation. I haven’t found anything as good as cantata but I have to admit that I miss the monolithic and do everything of musicbee.

Those Tukan plugins are not VSTs, they are reaper specific plugins.

I have no idea about Bottles but most people use yabridge these days which is really easy to use and works very well.

Yes. LV2 and VST3

AV Linux is pretty damn good.

I would say Arch because the AUR is amazing and Arch all around is so good but you’ll need to be making a lot of decisions during install that you know nothing about. If you want to learn then I think it’s the best overall.

Last time I looked there were not enough plugins available for it to be good for a beginner wanting to use it for audio.

What’s controversial about who goes to heaven, isn’t that stated in the religious text?

Pretty sure the original did so this should to

He didn’t and this is the whole point of open source.

That’s amazing, thanks for mentioning it.

Wait, infinity if coming to Lemmy?

I drove through it once, looked rough as shit.

Am I missing something? What gatekeeping?

If you can’t/won’t install with debtap then deb files can be extracted.