Just installed Owncast, so townsfolk can ride my G-scale Polar Express via an onboard livestream, as part of a revamped lighting and projection mapping festive season show.
While I was at it I also added Kokoro for TTS.
Thought I would spice up Jellyfin for the festive season, so am trying out the Jellyfin Enhanced and Home Sections plugins.
For me it is not a cycle, just a pragmatic implementation of tech catching up to my very specific needs.
Linux has been my primary OS for decades, but because I have edge case tech interests I have maintained a dual boot configuration.
Some of those edge cases have been possible, but also marginal in Linux, at times breaking some key aspects of my personal needs, so in the Unity game engine some required plugins (yes I am seriously looking at GoDot but have decades of investment in Unity), and in video tasks for 3D projection mapping projects, needing some custom scripts to work around codec issues.
The greatest challenges have been in relation to combining Sim games, motion simulation and VR integration.
I am again currently taking another run of that complex integration at the moment, tweaking CashyOS to meet my video editing and 3D projection mapping needs, while also trying to wrangle various proprietary Windows programs to run sim games, use 3rd party programs like CrewChief, and most importantly include telemetry driven haptics and motion simulation.
My Linux nirvana is complicated by some very specific but personally very important edge case needs. I am hoping that current Wine and Proton development has progressed to the point that I can finally totally ditch Window$ forever…fingers crossed!
Why have you not done a basic search to understand the objectives of the various distros and posiilities, before posing these questions?