Was primarily looking at something running Pop!_OS to start. Someone here suggested System76. I'd be migrating from a chromebook that can't handle any music software/DAWs at all, so even if it takes a little more legwork to get going on Linux, it'd still be a step up for those capacities as well as hopefully for privacy, as I'm learning. EDiT: I'm also unable to install Linux on this chromebook.
Anyone have any experience producing music on Linux? I'm mostly going to be recording but also interested in live modulation. For those reasons I'd probably be using Reaper (which I have a good deal of experience with) and Bitwig/Ardour. Would love to hear peoples' thoughts.
Yes. Install Balena Etcher, download the Ubuntu Studio ISO, get a USB drive of 8 GB or more, and use Etcher to flash the ISO onto the drive, then use the drive to install Ubuntu Studio. You can find more detailed instructions here and here
beautiful, i'm gonna check this out. thank you for replying