True story. Today my brother is totally pissed at windows (who wouldn’t be). He starting to seriously think about my past recommendations for Linux. Would you feel comfortable recommending and installing Aurora or Bluefin on a 9 year old laptop? Or would you let Aurora/Bluefin/Bazzite cook a littl…

The options available from Universal Blue are there to address differing personal preferences. Bazzite - excellent gaming experience on most modern relevant hardware Aurora - uses KDE Bluefin - uses GNOME - closer to Windows 8 than 10 or 11 in look or feel. This is the one I use and love. But I al…

He is fairly technically competent. I’m sure he could load it up in VirtualBox on Windows if he wanted to. The only thing that does concern me is that he’s a DJ and uses a lot of audio software on the Windows side to make music. There may be some MIDI stuff he does, I don’t know how well that works …

[image] Danathar: Or would you let Aurora/Bluefin/Bazzite cook a little more, let them go with Mint or something then circle back in a year… What’s left to cook? Our images are for people who don’t want to set up friends on systems like that.

Thats a very good point! Maybe I’m just asking for re-assurance. :wink: That being said, I’ll definitely have to see how many of those apps on Fedora Jam Lab are flatpaks. I’m sure he’ll want to do his DJ stuff.

Do the homework. Investgate which applications user uses. Make sure those apps exists on Linux. If app does not exists, you need to provide similar one, study the benefits, learn app well, support user. Install app on Windows. When everything works for a while and user happy with new apps. Do the …

Good Advice. The one big downside I’ve seen is that many apps in the DJ/Audio space are not provided as flatpaks, but just RPMs. I really don’t want to do a bunch of layered applications if I can avoid it.

You should not layer, but install RPMs in distrobox container like: [image] How to install ART (A fork of RawTherapee) on Bluefin? (Was how to compile a program?) Bluefin TL;DR: Bellow are instructions how to install ART in container using BoxBuddy. I hope I h…

I use signal in distrobox (I’d rather get updates directly than trust a community flatpak). Yes, you are right that RPMs in distrobox should work, but of course I don’t know if specialty audio stuff would.

My guess is an audio app rpm in distrobox should work, since it will very likely be interfacing with pipewire (“PipeWire is a modern multimedia framework designed for Linux systems that aims to unify and enhance the handling of both audio and video streams.”), which is installed and works for all fe…

That is the real question. I’ve never really use an app and distro box with audio.

Would you recommend Aurora or Bluefin to a windows user?

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You should not layer, but install RPMs in distrobox container like:

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