I have two, one is a bi- monthly movie club with friends where we focus on movies that have a lot to talk about (so generally artsy movies), and another monthly kung-fu movie night where we just hang out and watch people beat each other up for fun.

Ty and That Guy. They mostly talk about movies, especially 80s and 90s movies, and that’s my jam.

1. Decent chance of happening.
2. Is theoretically possible but unlikely.
3. Could happen, but there’s no data on how likely it is.

1. Definitely dual boot, especially if you’re new to linux, and double-especially if this is what you use for work. You are likely to run into situations where shit just doesn’t work and you need a fallback environment to operate in while you figure out what that’s about and how to fix it. Likewise, you will run into software that runs badly on linux or just doesn’t run at all even under wine/VM, and it will be nice to have that fallback for when you don’t have time to fuck around and figure out what the problem is and need to just get shit done. If things go well you will find very quickly that you don’t need it and can probably go ahead and delete it after a little bit, but at first you want that lifeboat. Mine stuck around for 2 weeks, but I only even used it the first couple days and the rest was ‘maybe I’ll run into some weird situation…’ and just not needing it. As for merging the partitions and such, I believe that’s possible, but you definitely want to make sure you have backups before you try it just in case. There are many good cloud backup services that have linux native clients (I use filen.io myself.)

2. I’ve never even touched music software so I have no idea what’s out there. I do however know about a great website called alternativeto.net that lets you find alternatives to existing software, and you can select your platform to limit it only to linux software. For example, here’s the entry for linux-native replacements for Cubase (it was the obscure one from my perspective, wanted to see if they actually had anything, turns out they do.)

3. Yes, NTFS generally works mostly fine on linux, though there are a couple of weird cases where it causes problems (one I ran into was adding games I had installed on an NTFS drive for windows to Steam on linux, it was very wonky.) After nuking my windows boot drive I went through and copied all the stuff off my NTFS drives and reformatted them to btrfs before putting the data back on them to ensure that everything would work smoothly, but if you’re just using it for regular file access you should be fine. The one caveat I would add is I would probably not recommend editing large projects in files on NTFS drives in linux if you can avoid it, but poke around google and see if you can find people reporting issues with your specific software/use-case to see if there are any problems with it.

4. Drivers for weird hardware are potentially an issue. Looks like there is a FOSS driver for the Scarlett, didn’t see anything at first glance for the Behringer, but also again I have no idea what I’m looking at here so this is something you’re going to have to do some research on. I have had some weirdness with audio in general on linux, things cutting out unexpectedly, stuff like that, but that’s strictly games/discord/that sort of thing, so it might be worth looking for stuff other people have posted about doing heavy audio work on linux to get an idea for what to expect. I’m sure it can be made to work, but it might require more fiddling than you expect.

Either way, welcome to the party. :)

Yeah, Microsoft came to bargain, but I came to flip 'em the bird cause I already switched to linux.

That’s fair, taste is subjective and formed for lots of reasons, I’m not telling you you’re wrong or anything.

Fair enough, to each their own. Although brutalism is more than just exposed concrete, that is definitely the signature thing.

It’s architecture/interior design, taste is subjective. Like what you like, I’m not here to yuck anyone else’s yum, just expressing my own opinion.

I was thinking the tacky, overly-ostentatious decoration style you see in Russian government buildings, but yeah that fits too.

Fair enough. I also love it for office buildings and such, like in this example from The Oldest House in Control, or Luthen’s shop or Coruscant in Andor.

Iono, the first two are a bit much, but I do love the 3rd.

Yeah, art deco is definitely high on that list. Also brutalism. I especially love brutalist interiors.

Sure, I get the appeal as a feature, just not as a descriptor/category.

That sounds like a big increase in pain-in-the-ass for not that big an increase in savings. I’m happy to trade money for convenience on this one. ;)

No, what you did is come into a productive post with a fair amount of serious engagement–and no apparent confusion about what I meant from anyone else–with an attitude and a snarky comment. I tried in my response to ignore that and sincerely engage with your question and you decided to double-down. So I’m gonna take that as a solid ‘yes’ re:dead-set on being an ass and go do something more productive with my time. Have a lovely day.

Lunch meat. I eat sandwiches every day for lunch and I have tried all the discount store brands for various types of ham, turkey, and chicken, and it’s all pretty shit, so I’m quite happy to pay the buck for the Hillshire Farms stuff cause it’s the best.

Fly everywhere. I’m having breakfast in Paris, lunch in Cairo, and dinner in Kyoto, and checking out a bunch of other places in between. Also doing approximately all of the cocaine so I can stay awake for the whole thing.

…weird. I don’t understand why drop-down terminals are a thing? I can bring up Konsole with a hotkey too, only it just opens a window instead fo doing a fancy animation. That’s such a tiny part of its functionality that I can’t imagine how ‘drop-down’ became a descriptor for a terminal instead of just a bullet point on a feature list somewhere, much less a whole-ass category of terminals, lol.

But, fair enough.

Did you miss the important part of the comment you’re replying to?

What else did you imagine I meant when I titled that post ‘the terminal question’?

Did you think ‘the terminal’ question meant something else, or are you just ignoring the whole thing because you’re dead-set on being an ass?

Huh, I didn’t think about that. But I can just install uBO and disable the built-in ones if it ever becomes a problem, right? I thought I saw an option about disabling them.