I went back to Windows a few years ago because I needed audio production software but would go back to vanilla Debian in a heartbeat if I needed a PC for anything else.

I switched to I3WM later on with my Debian PC and that was godlike too

Not dead but definitely on life support. I really do miss old forums. Reddit / Discord / Fediverse don’t come close to the old community feel. Facebook groups aren’t so bad sometimes for that but then the content is organised terribly. Say what you will about forum search engines but I could always rely on being able to enter a keyword or two and get what I was looking for.

A lot of forums I frequented were actually pretty well organised with subforums. It just isn’t the same these days.

Also web forums were the absolute best for petty drama. I do miss that in a weird way. Always that one angry gatekeeper flaming everyone.

I went back to 5 days a week in office in summer 2021. I hated it when I was told but now I’m glad it happened. I walk 2 miles each way to work. That walk is one of the nicest parts of my day. I get crazy paranoia when I can’t speak to people face-to-face, and I can maintain a routine. I appreciate I am lucky in my situation but I would take the 4 days and enjoy a long weekend where I can properly unwind

I would kill for some proper VST emulations of old home organs. As in ones that I could hook up a MIDI organ to and play with 2 manuals and bass pedals, operate an automatic rhythm unit, make registration changes on the fly, and has presets for whole organ setups. Hauptwerk is cool but doesn’t cater for the cheesy end of the organ spectrum, and the other organ VSTs are usually set up for single-keyboard use.

I think Arturia should get on it and release a full-on Grandma Organ V collection. They’d sell dozens!

Most people recommend Alfred’s Adult All-In-One Course. There’s 3 levels and they’ll keep you occupied for a long while. I’ve always found them quite useful. Alfred’s publish songbooks for each level as well.