No experience with audio stuff but I feel you in terms of photo editing. Lightroom is gonna be sad to lose but darktable seems pretty good and if I’m being honest I mostly edit on my iPad anyway.

For games if nobody answers your question I’ll test it out when I get home from work

Nice, I’ll have a look at those when I’m home from work! Gamemode is pretty cool I never even thought about installing that.

Thanks for the recommendations! I’ve looked into (and set up) a few of these, but there are a few I definitely need to look into more! Need to learn more about sandboxing apps as well.

Oh this seems great, definitely checking this one out

The start menu was getting so painful 😭

No shame in that. I considered myself a pretty proficient Linux user until I installed arch lol