What does atomic mean in this sense? That seems more confusing than immutable.

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.

They can be dropped into local directories, assuming the devs provide binaries, otherwise they need building. I know it’s not difficult to git clone and build but it’s not really a beginner friendly process and not ideal to have to remember to check for updates (and not ideal to not have them packaged for updates if there are binaries provided by the devs). I was considering using 10 years ago or so and this was one of the main reasons I decided against it in the end (along with other audio tools not having packages), it’s a shame it hasn’t really moved forward in this respect because it looked really nice otherwise.

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.

Wouldn’t this benefit everyone? Presumably the implications are far wider and more important than who makes the most profit from it.

This will be amazing if it works, I’ve been frustrated with mtp for so many years. Thanks for posting about it.

Edit: Windows only FFS. Guess I’ll look at using adb itself as someone else mentioned here.