Arch + riverwm on my desktop. I know barless tiling window managers look daunting, but simplicity is liberation.

I can't imagine doing that on my laptop though, so I've got arch + KDE Plasma and I love how it just works.

I finally got around to the Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door remake, and it has been amazing so far.

I know it's not the same for sure, but I do highly recommend giving Ardour a shot if you have a spare computer that you can play with Linux on (or I think you can get it for Windows but it's not as simple as Linux.) I'm not sure what your use case for Cakewalk is, but I know for mine (straightforward recording and mixing) it works great!

It's going very well, I discovered Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse and am once again excited for the future of technology!