F droid is EXCELLENT

I blocked the whole instance. I’ll admit that I do want to see nude females (who are obviously adults) but I was seeing lots of other stuff that I don’t find sexy, and blocking specific communities was like playing whack-a-mole.

How old and how powerful is your computer?

You can run a DAW on any distro and it will work fine. If you want an environment tuned for audio, you can get a music-oriented distro, or get a normal distro and tweak it.

Ubuntu Studio is the popular one. But you can avoid the bloat of ubuntu by installing mint and then installing ubuntu studio controls. That’s what I’m using and it’s great. This applies to any ubuntu-based system (kubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu, popos, etc).

Fedora Jam is apparently a good rival. I hear a lot of love for AV Linux too. I’ve never used either one.

Archlinux has a detailed section on setting up arch for pro audio, and that will apply to either manjaro or endeavouros too. I personally love arch and endeavouros. But the extra time for manual set up might not result in any benefit for you. but the real downside is that it’s potentially dangerous to wait a month without updating. If you stash your machine for three months and then update your rolling release distro, you might experience one of those horror stories of a broken system. Whereas with mint, you can install it and leave it alone for a year and it’s probably gonna be fine.

The big advantage of arch is that it will have updates for new hardware sooner than ubuntu-based distros. Aside from that, you install it for the fun of building it and the customization that’s offered to (forced upon) you.

Yeah I thought gentoo was still going strong.