i suspect that the biggest reason to use an enterprise distribution is the support since it helps shield you from the consequences of interoperability that naturally come out of the whole linux ecosystem of the right hand not knowing what the left had is doing.
if you can find the source deb package for it, you can use that to try to construct a version that’s appropriate for your release.
or at least it’s true to for rpm packages from the last time i encountered a barrier like this on centos.
i was wrong. i misread the article thinking that opensuse was going to turn into an analogue similar to centos stream ending up with suse eventually sun setting opensuse like red hat is doing with centos; but no, they’re ARE doing a centos stream like model but it’s going to be back and forth between opensuse leap and opensuse tumbleweed.
opensuse is back on the recommended list. lol
if your session is still running you can use env to help reconstruct it
i take back what i said; i just discovered that suse isn’t going to support opensuse anymore.
i used to have a 2013 macbook air from the electronics disposal bin and used it for five years as my daily driver. i don’t know how well it would do considering all your audio related constraints; but in your shoes i would do some quick and dirty testing with a live linux distribution on usb drive.
i would go with elive because it comes preinstalled with proprietary software; including things for multimedia, like codecs. you could also do it w any other distro, but why not save yourself the extra steps; since we’re only looking for breadcrumbs to follow anyways.
i used to use a headset w a usb audio dongle circa 2002 on red hat linux and the breadcrumbs i found back then led me to discover that getting it to work required the proprietary software that the distros wouldn’t carry because of the licensing. so i spent days tearing apart my new installation trying to get it to work with the help of strangers on internet linux forums and ultimately failed; i later succeeded with mandrake linux and ran with that for about 3ish years before switching to debian and later elive.
elive has already figured out all the intricate details necessary to get that software to work and i’m inclined to believe that they made significant improvements over the last 20ish years. you can use the fruits of their labor for a quick and non-invasive test that can be the first breadcrumb that leads you to whatever you end up using for your two machines while ensuring your audio requirements will be met; maybe elive can also help with other proprietary software or maybe it’s people on the software that they use that are like yours.
also: you lost me on Focusrite Audio-Interface paragraph so i don’t understand how it fits into any of this.
do you have any intel related packages in your system? you can search with something like apt-cache search intel
if it turns out you don’t and you’re certain that it’s okay for you then you can probably add a repository for it.
i can’t stress enough the part where you need to be certain that you need it.
i use xfce, but entirely because it worked well when 16 megabytes of ram was considered average and it literally took almost a half hour to log in and start using a browser on both gnome and kde.
is mate as lightweight as xfce?
androids can’t do base distro’s anymore?
the touch screen support was TERRIBLE, but it was helped a lot by the physical slide-out keyboard and i never got the phone capabilities to work correctly, but i heard from my colleagues at the time that some of them had figured it out.
… nowadays it’s in my top 3 list when I’m suggesting distros to people
same here; but only because of the support like red hat’s and canonical’s
fwiw: it was viable when i had the first android released to the public; it was an HTC and with debian.
opensuse was my shortest experiment when i used to distro hop because of how old their software seemed to be. (ie old like debian stable).
this was almost 20 years; has it gotten better?
did it have some sort of error or failure? if it did, are you able to copy/paste several lines before and afterwards?
what are lists in this context?
I’m happy that syncing works for you but privacy is very important to me so I don’t want to upload my data to someone else’s server(s).
i think that you’re smart to considering mozilla’s trajectory.
i’m kicking myself for not applying my enshitification experiences that comes naturally from profit driven organizations (especially when they claim to be non-profits). i should have seen it coming since i’ve been moving from one platform to another because of enshitification since the 1990’s and now i’m just as stuck inside an ecosystem like redditors and facebookers are; but it’s worse since the most viable alternatives are no better.
ydotool has lots of caveats because of wayland; your other examples work better imo.
does dmesg or journalctl -f give any hints as to whats going on as you connect the cable?
i’m still using kitkat androids in my own motion setup. (segregated from internet access of course)
i try to focus on silver linings wherever i see them because the clouds are going to come whether or not you want them to.
i’m surprised that alpine isn’t on that list since they went through all that effort to be “pure” linux.