So I am finally putting in the effort to move over my music production suite to my linux PC, and genuinely this is just better than windows audio. The only thing I have not been able to replicate is how ASIO would bypass system volume.
This was useful because it allowed me to keep my audio workflow and everything else balanced seperately.
It was also really useful in foobar2000 (now replaced with the much nicer fooyin) because of replay gain. Replay gain would keep each song in the same loudness range allowing me to set my desired volume with my audio interfaces physical knob.
Now if I want to replicate this workflow I need to max out the system volume which removes the ability to quickly equalize the two workflows.
I hope I described this in an understandable way.
I use Fedora KDE 44 with the audio group installed (so jack and pipewire)
For Djing I love to use Mixxx, really solid for mixing and organising music, though I still need a VM with rekordbox if I wanna prepare usbs for club equipment. For music making I like Cardinal which is similar to VCV rack and I do compostion with reaper. Overall the proaudio pacakge group of Arch linux will have most of the stuff you need. For interfaces most class compliant usb interfaces are fine. I control them with qpwpgraph, though I want to try out firewire sometime soon since its legacy and getting reeeeaaaallly cheap second hand