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.
The real value of Jack is that it allows you to pipeline audio and MIDI from any program which supports it. The low latency streaming is obviously important, but being able to synchronize a DAW with a drum machine and a MIDI sequencer driving a synthesizer pipelining through some effects processing and back into the DAW is just... Incredible. When it works, that is. :)