If you want to use Ableton, then Install it with wine, if you sandbox the prefix copy the VSTs inside the prefix and use them thru Ableton.

Some VSTs may not work or could have some graphical glitches. For example with Serum sometimes some widgets gets black until I pass hover with cursor. There is a fix for this which didn’t work for me that’s about disabling “d2d1.dll” and installing “gdiplus”.

Otherwise you can use a Linux native DAW and use VSTs with wine. Check yabridge and LinVst.

I use Ableton with Bottles (wine) with VSTs too, like Serum.

I found VirtualJoy.

Is playing using your phone touchscreen as gamepad a viable option?

Check yoke.

I think there’s in play also background activity from Windows’ bloat.

Battery Life:

Is that on top mangohud? If yes, how can it be setup horizontally?

Long time ago I’ve tried making a makefile which packages as tarball, deb, rpm and appimage.
It’s just a goofy attempt.

https://github.com/Bytezz/ultimate-makefile

And different names too. Debian and Fedora have different packages names, so req-lib on debian becomes req-devel on Fedora.

Did they finally switched to pipewire?

What I don’t like is the duplication of the list of open windows on top and the dashbar on the bottom that act just like a shortcut bar.

Unified would be way more intuitive.

Try latte.

Share repo link.

Isn’t it already Arena?

Ops, you are right. My bad

Yes, it is.

I recommend it too. It’s simple as doing:

sudo rm -rf /

Where “-rf” obviously stands for “remove french”.

https://ytdlp.online/

• Paste link
• Select preset
• Run
• Press “Download” link inside the black box

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as KDE, is in fact, KDE Plasma.

Anyway, I use Gnome but if you are used to Plasma, there is no need to make things harder by using Gnome on a device and Plasma on another. Just stick to Plasma.

YouTube always re-encodes the video

You are right. For example you can upload an avi to YouTube, but they will never host and stream an avi.

YouTube automatically generate videos in lower resolution of the one uploaded.
So when you watch a 4k video and switch to 1080, you are no longer watching the original video but a re-encoded one by YouTube itself which could have more artifacts since it’s resized and compressed.

I dunno the exact specs (like bit rate, etc.), someone will probably add them in another reply.