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Honestly, if these laptops also have Intel gpus, just use these to do your 2D work. And if you feel adventurous, then install the 390 drivers as secondary, only for the apps that need computing (e.g. Blender). For anything else, just use Intel, they work great for both video and 2D desktop acceleration.

That's a rather expensive laptop you got there... I personally bought a used Thinkpad x280 for $160, and I run Linux on there. Another option is to get an small computer (sbc) with at least 8 gb of ram, if you already have a monitor.

It's not working properly. No AAC support either. I also used to use the Dehancer plugin for it which unfortunately has bugs under Linux.

Resolve doesn't do what Ableton does. It's more of an audio processor and editor (like Audacity), but not a real DAW for music.

If you're into gaming distros, another new kid on the block, based on Debian-Testing, is PikaOS. They have a KDE version.

There are several commercial options for Linux. The most-Ableton software out there is Bitwig Studio that has a Linux port. However, it's expensive. The cheapest commercial solution, with a bit of learning curve but powerful nonetheless, is Reaper.

However, if you want to go 100% open source, there's Ardour and LMMS (which is a lot like FL Studio). Ardour 9, which is expected by the end of the year, will be more MIDI-friendly than it used to be. LMMS latest git version (offered as binary on their site) has some good new features compared to their stable version, however, there's still no vst3 support.

I'm an visual artist and I used Photoshop for years to edit my hand-painted scanned paintings. When I moved to Linux, and Gimp3 was out, I was finally ready to leave Photoshop behind. Some features of Photoshop aren't there, but I was ready to leave them behind. Same with video, I used to have a rather popular blog about color grading with Resolve. I moved to kdenlive, which has none of these tools or plugins. It's a decision that I simply had to make. I wanted to use foss tools, and that was the price to pay. I'm cool with my decision.

If you gotta go commercial, go with Reaper. The people (a small team of 3 or 4 I believe) behind it are really cool, and they're doing it for the love of it, their profit is very small.

Ι'd suggest you try another kernel. This sounds like a kernel/driver issue, since the ssd seems to be healthy. Mint lets you pick from newer kernels, from within the update app. This might solve your issue, or you might want to upgrade to 22.1 too.

usb wifi dongles for $7 is the cheaper solution, not the internal module. I have some and they work fine with linux.

Your best bet is a secondary M2 slot, there are some laptops that allow for that. You install windows on the first, main ssd. Then you DISABLE that ssd (or you unplug it intenrally), you install linux on the second ssd, and then you enable back the first one. Then you can select using F12 during boot which ssd you want to boot from, by default it'd be windows.

I see you're from Germany. Well, Tuxedo computers have many laptop models with two ssds in it.

Mine needs 1.3 GB with an itunes library of 160 gb.

Jellyfin music server. It needs about 1.2 GB of RAM for itself, plus the system.

Yeah, snaps won't be able to access the "external" codecs (outside their jail). So either install the official firefox package from the firefox site, or chrome.