Current best live Linux distro for audio/studio enviroment: thoughts?

Almost any distro is fine, you just need to know how it works and what to change to make it good for audio. If you need a daw and vst/lv2 plugins then the package managers can become important and whether you want/can spend time/cpu compiling.

I would say if you are inclined to delve into linux then gentoo/funtoo is the way to go (personally I don’t see the point in arch when you can use gentoo, it’s convenient but the difference is like arch to ubuntu), and if not then whatever suits you needs. Debian/ubuntu based is always handy for the kxstudio repo.

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