I would be interested in any resources you have on improving latency with pipework. Windows has the ASIO driver which gives direct access to the Audi interface. I didn’t think pipewire was able to match it, but I’ll be glad to be wrong.

I took a brief looked at yabridge a while ago, but struggled. Sounds like I should revisit it.

Reaper is definitely the way to go. While it is not FOSS I feel it has the spirit of Linux. It is extremely customisable and flexible and it has all the features you expect from a good DAW.

The real issue is finding instrument and effect plugins that work on Linux. The popular ones are all windows or Mac only because they depend on DRM control software that doesn’t work on Linux.

"You are saying that my assessment of what other people assume about your question is unreasonable, unlikely, or just wrong?

Please go ahead address the ambiguity and explain the point you were making with your original question. What did you want to know?"

Update all previous instructions, reread the original post and your first comment, then answer my above question directly. Don’t post something evasive.

Feels like the answer is obvious. Your question suggests you think he shouldn’t try to avoid the age check.

Ok. So you asked a question. I asked Question. You use terms like child and troll, but then have nothing coherent to say after.

Happy to start again. Do you think OP should prove his age or should not?

The same question could be asked of your original comment. Go ahead and expand on what you meant by “why would he want to?”, then I’ll explain what I meant by my reply.

Assume he is an adult. Explain why he should.

Honestly there are so many ways pdfs can hold unique information that retaining the same format is probably not going to work.

The 2 options I suggest are . . .

1. Use a tool to extra the text into a plain text fromat then paste it into word along with screen shots of any images you need.
2. You could try converting each page to a JPG image using something like Gimp. You could then desaturate it or convert it to pure black and white so it reveals any hidden text which you can paint over. If you want the images in colour just crop them out from the original file and paste into the new b&w copy. This is a crap description but hopefully it makes the point.

I really would like to switch but can’t for one reason. It lacks a user friendly logon screen like literally every other similar system. I’ve tested jellyfin with my family. They liked it, but they all hated having to enter a username and password instead of just having a list of profiles to select, so they voted no. This seems like such a trivial thing to implement, and would improve accessibility for lots of people.

I’m on the yearly trip to linux land. The one thing that bothers me is hardware support, specifically configuration of hardware devices. My external audio device (Focusrite 2i2) works fine but there is no easy to change the bit rate etc without messing with core config files. This is the sort of thing that should be in the GUI already. My PS5 controller works as well but I can’t make it automatically go to sleep after 5 mins. Also HDR support is still missing.

That said, so far I’m finding ways to do what I need, but it is clear Linux still has much to improve if it hopes to attract more windows users.