Omv, that is debian with a Web interface basically

As a workaround, you can press esc after locking the screen and it will turn off.

My client of choice! Nice!

Using heroic to play avatar. Just add uplay as a game and download anything there.

Yeah, I also gave garuda a try but it was too messy for my taste, like I had to spend time un-costumizing kde because I just wanted vanilla plasma.

Personally I haven’t had that issue. I had lots of issues with latest 545 but downgraded to 535 and it’s all good so far.

Endevour os for me. No issues on kde nvidia and wayland, pretty straightforward installation. If I were you I’d do some distro hopping in the new PC. I’d try one of those ublue images, then nobara then endevour and see what you prefer.

For me it would be nobara or endevour os. Garuda is too messy imo. I run endeavour, but I don’t know how much gaming is possible on a nuc.

It’s about to ask you if you have any games in your phone.

What’s your DE? You can select your prefered file picker with an env flag. I’m in kde and somehow it defaults to gnome picker by default. Maybe it’s the same for you and you don’t have the gnome packages and it hangs? You can also run heroic from the console and see if it outputs any useful info when hanging.

Trico: https://pixeldrain.com/u/7wp5sGwG

Not a fan at all of apple, but isn’t the shift to arm not a “safe” movement at all? Like, they are breaking basically all the ecosystem of apps, legacy, etc… Also, from the outside, it looks like it went well? Sincerely asking, as I don’t know.

I use endeavour os. Is arch made easy, while still being arch. It fills your needs, you can install any DE you like (kde myself) and a zen kernel with basically one command line. Also for nvidia if you go that way you just do “nvidia-inst” and are good to go. Another nice one that checks those boxes is nobara, a fedora spin focused on gaming.

Plugins should be easy to use and pretty painless thanks to yabridge. Also just running reaper fully on wine is fine option with a ñn asio bridge to JACK. I tried it once just to play around and was impressed at how easy and performant was. Shame in the maschine hardware, this is the only thing I could find about that https://github.com/wrl/maschine.rs I also got triggered by win11 to switch to Linux half a year ago and couldn’t be happier on endeavour os, no problems so far on the music production side,even with heavy drm’d plug ins. Work flow s also much better, as I can run higher sample count with lower latency than windows thanks to pipewire.

Same, searxng is great.

Check gourou! Also if you use arch there is a bin there on the aur for knock.

Endeavour is great. Running that too. I sometimes think of distro hopping (nobara, cachyos?) but endeavour just checks all the boxes for me.