Yesterday I’ve had a brief look at two Linux distributions which come more or less tailor-made and preconfigured for musicians and other creatives, like people who like to make videos, or who render, paint, photograph, and so on.
Both UbuntuStudio and AVLinux are fantastic tools for the job.

UbuntuStudio is now using the KDE Plasma desktop, heavily customised, so it doesn’t look like Windows anymore. I would recommend that one for machines with at least 4GB of main memory, and with a 4 core CPU.
AVLinux is made by Glen McArthur (a farmer if I remember correctly) and is even more quirky, using MX Linux as its base, and on top of that an Enlightenment desktop (see my screenshot above). This one is much more frugal, and the one you see running above was installed on a virtual machine with only 2GB of RAM, and with a dual core CPU. Means that it would run on my wife’s notebook from ca. 2010 ๐
Both come really nicely preconfigured, and as you can see, a bass player like me could start right away plugging his Precision Bass into a virtual Ampeg SVT amplifier, and go and play. Both also come as live images which you can run from an USB stick to see if you like them before installing them onto your hard drives and/or SSDs. Both MXLinux and Ubuntu are based upon Debian of course, which is the granddaddy of many good Linux distributions.
I also looked at the librazik website, which is another distribution meant for musicians, this time from France. But librazik is still based upon Buster, which is Debian oldstable, so I haven’t looked at it.
For Windows users: I recommend having a look at Ventoy, which can hold more than one Linux .iso file, so you can try them all from the same USB stick. And now go and have a look, and start making some music using free and open source tools.
And like always, thanks for reading.