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I switched over to ElementaryOS for my movie/music/games/3d-modeling/video-editing/daw machine a bit ago.

It's pretty, and it (mostly) "just works." I legitimately believe this project is on its way to eat Windows and Apples pies.

Worth watching the progress of: https://elementary.io/

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I don't particularly appreciate Linux distributions that try to pretend they're not Linux distributions by slapping "OS" in their name. Regardless, Elementary doesn't fix any of the issues I personally have with Linux Desktop that keep me from switching today.

Eh, IDK. The Arch and Ubuntu experience are very far apart for me, especially as far as hardware support goes (beyond just kernel drivers, I mean - lots of devices need userland utilities to support their functionality, things like remote scanning for instance). They are different OSes that happen to share a kernel, but that's it. Even the userland close to the kernel can be very different.

They share a kernel, shells, package management as an application distribution model, and many disparately developed complex systems. They all run the same software more or less.

Once you've used a few dozen different Linux distros, which I have over the 20 years I've used Linux for things, you find that almost all of them are basically the same. Occasionally there's an outlier like Gobolinux or Rox that everyone ignores but even they still has most software in common.

Which applications do you use for video editing and DAW? How does the experience measure up to the competition on Windows?

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