Haven’t had much opportunity to use snap, what’s the problem with them?

1. Definitely dual boot, especially if you’re new to linux, and double-especially if this is what you use for work. You are likely to run into situations where shit just doesn’t work and you need a fallback environment to operate in while you figure out what that’s about and how to fix it. Likewise, you will run into software that runs badly on linux or just doesn’t run at all even under wine/VM, and it will be nice to have that fallback for when you don’t have time to fuck around and figure out what the problem is and need to just get shit done. If things go well you will find very quickly that you don’t need it and can probably go ahead and delete it after a little bit, but at first you want that lifeboat. Mine stuck around for 2 weeks, but I only even used it the first couple days and the rest was ‘maybe I’ll run into some weird situation…’ and just not needing it. As for merging the partitions and such, I believe that’s possible, but you definitely want to make sure you have backups before you try it just in case. There are many good cloud backup services that have linux native clients (I use filen.io myself.)

2. I’ve never even touched music software so I have no idea what’s out there. I do however know about a great website called alternativeto.net that lets you find alternatives to existing software, and you can select your platform to limit it only to linux software. For example, here’s the entry for linux-native replacements for Cubase (it was the obscure one from my perspective, wanted to see if they actually had anything, turns out they do.)

3. Yes, NTFS generally works mostly fine on linux, though there are a couple of weird cases where it causes problems (one I ran into was adding games I had installed on an NTFS drive for windows to Steam on linux, it was very wonky.) After nuking my windows boot drive I went through and copied all the stuff off my NTFS drives and reformatted them to btrfs before putting the data back on them to ensure that everything would work smoothly, but if you’re just using it for regular file access you should be fine. The one caveat I would add is I would probably not recommend editing large projects in files on NTFS drives in linux if you can avoid it, but poke around google and see if you can find people reporting issues with your specific software/use-case to see if there are any problems with it.

4. Drivers for weird hardware are potentially an issue. Looks like there is a FOSS driver for the Scarlett, didn’t see anything at first glance for the Behringer, but also again I have no idea what I’m looking at here so this is something you’re going to have to do some research on. I have had some weirdness with audio in general on linux, things cutting out unexpectedly, stuff like that, but that’s strictly games/discord/that sort of thing, so it might be worth looking for stuff other people have posted about doing heavy audio work on linux to get an idea for what to expect. I’m sure it can be made to work, but it might require more fiddling than you expect.

Either way, welcome to the party. :)

But I’m not running, I’m just a tourist!

Sure, I get the appeal as a feature, just not as a descriptor/category.

No, what you did is come into a productive post with a fair amount of serious engagement–and no apparent confusion about what I meant from anyone else–with an attitude and a snarky comment. I tried in my response to ignore that and sincerely engage with your question and you decided to double-down. So I’m gonna take that as a solid ‘yes’ re:dead-set on being an ass and go do something more productive with my time. Have a lovely day.

…weird. I don’t understand why drop-down terminals are a thing? I can bring up Konsole with a hotkey too, only it just opens a window instead fo doing a fancy animation. That’s such a tiny part of its functionality that I can’t imagine how ‘drop-down’ became a descriptor for a terminal instead of just a bullet point on a feature list somewhere, much less a whole-ass category of terminals, lol.

But, fair enough.

Did you miss the important part of the comment you’re replying to?

What else did you imagine I meant when I titled that post ‘the terminal question’?

Did you think ‘the terminal’ question meant something else, or are you just ignoring the whole thing because you’re dead-set on being an ass?

Yeah I’m kinda getting that impression. Most of the responses to this post have generally been ‘use what your DE ships with’ or ‘I use something obscure and tailored to this weird specific use case I have’. I’ve looked at a lot of the suggestions people have given and none of them seem like they would be a noticeable upgrade for me, so I’m content to continue using konsole until I come across a situation that requires me to do something fancy that it can’t do.

That’s why it was right there in the title? What else did you imagine I meant when I titled that post ‘the terminal question’?

And yes, I genuinely value the opinions of others (because they can explain why they hold them) over the opinions of AI-generated listicles and 10 year old reddit posts that offer no explanation. Is that not why you participate in internet forums like lemmy?

I don’t have an answer for you, I’d never heard of ASCIIFlow, but holy shit that takes me back to an oooold piece of DOS software called FormTool. Used to make dungeon maps and character sheets and such with it back in the early 90s. Good times.

Fair, although I am reasonably comfortable with the terminal (just don’t know all the commands and such, always having to look that sort of thing up). I used to run linux installs many years ago back when stuff like slackware and redhat were the standard distros and X was iffy at best so I’ve done a lot of that sort of thing, just not in like 20+ years.

But I’m seeing lots of recommendations for alacritty, I’ll check it out, though most people seem to think konsole is fine unless I have specific needs which I really don’t. Thanks!

Yeah I have been, I’ve just seen discussion about terminals that do all kinds of fancy shit and I’m wondering if I’m missing out on features by using the default (konsole), though it seems fairly full-featured. shrug

Fair, I’m definitely not a ‘serious’ terminal user.

Yeah I was wondering about that, it’d be nice to have an LLM that’s specifically trained on like linux system configs and shit, but that’s well beyond the scope of my capabilities, so if it doesn’t already exist I’m just SOL on that one.

Sorry, by ‘general terminal stuff’ and ‘nothing fancy’ I mean I just like edit config files, run system commands, that sort of thing. But yeah I’m not like doing complex data management or programming or whatever.

I’ll check out Warp/Wave, thanks!

Simple but extremely useful, someone pointed that out the other day and I’ve been using it ever since. It’s my favorite feature of dolphin so far.

Yeah I tried gnome for a little bit on a previous Pop install and didn’t like it as much so I went with KDE when I switched to Nobara.

Huh, I didn’t realize. I’ve had it installed forever, I guess I didn’t realize. Oh well, I just switched back to Brave and I don’t even have uBO installed anymore and it’s been fine.

Not disputing that it’s good, it’s just so much stuff is built to work with KDE or Gnome that I think you’d miss out on using E.

Enlightenment has been around for decades, and it was quite a bit more popular in its early days because things like KDE/Gnome/etc weren’t the de facto DEs pretty much everyone used like they are now. I used it back when I had a linux box like 25 years ago and it was great, it was very slick and pretty, but now so much is written for KDE/Gnome that it feels like using anything else is just asking for trouble.

Yeah, I have since discovered pCloud as a replacement for OneDrive and that I could just have everything saved to a pCloud directory to auto-sync… but IMO UpNote is worth the $25 anyway so I don’t mind. Also it requires considerably less effort to just install the android app vs setting up some kind of multi-device syncing with pCloud/equivalent and managing that myself. I guess I value convenience over privacy in this one area.

Thanks for the explanation re:gollum/zim, I was curious why you were using 2 different sets of software to accomplish what seemed like the same thing. My notes are definitely more of the ‘scribble some shit down and organize it later if I get around to it’ variety, but I stopped using zim because I wanted synced notes with multiplatform apps and also it felt a little archaic, and I wasn’t really using the real star feature of wikis (cross-linking) anyway, I just wanted something with a traditional tree structure.