You can use calibre for desktop publishing?

Fair! I run a US based instagib server.

Again, just my opinion, but I prefer Krita to any FLOSS alternative. I've been designing professionally for over a decade, using Adobe for most of it; Krita is my preferred FLOSS tool for photo editing, and I've tried them all.

Hard disagree. I use it all the time for photo editing.

What's Calibri? I'm not finding anything (besides the typeface) when I search.

Bitwig is outstanding. I so wish there was an open source DAW that came close in stability and workflow. Zrythm crashes constantly, and the workflow in Ardour is obtuse. I can't quite figure out how to do anything in LMMS and the other options just look so dated I'm not even tempted to try them.

?? I am using it right now and haven't seen a single ad?

You're doing god's work.

Agreed. I've been designing professionally since 2009, and have switched my workflow to 100% FLOSS tools. Scribus, Inkscape, and Krita are suitable for professional work these days.

What made you decide to switch to vanilla arch?

This. There really is no perfect solution for VMs; I went from a VM to dual booting to full time Linux with a Windows VM that I never even touch anymore. Ironically, Linux VMs work very smoothly on Linux hosts due to opengl support.

Incense. The mod abandoned it; I put in a request and haven't heard back.