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I recommend Fedora instead of Mint. It's a much more daily ready distro oriented for Workstations.
I always had problems with Mint especially with the older kernels it uses.
Fedora uses gnome which is very stable.
In regards to audio. It uses pipewire and works well in my experience. Less latency and relatively plug and play. I use Bitwig however.
DaVinci is known to be difficult, however there are some automations for setting it up in Fedora.
Following this advice that came quite often, I've decided to give Fedora a try on my home system. I've read that Nobora is optimised for production and gaming so I've installed it this morning ,triple booting Mint, Win10 and Nobora. It's really well done and comes with Gnome and preinstalled video and steam tools. But I'm still facing one significant issue: the multimedia codes wont install properly. I've just spent 2 hours on this with no luck so far. That means many games that worked out of the box on mint are not curently working...on a gaming oriented distro.... plus video editing doesn't work in Reaper due to Ffmpeg not working.. So yeah, it look quite nice but a lot of troubleshooting required. I'll see how it goes once problems are fixes.
Which multimedia codecs do you need? I understand that some were moved to rpmfusion because of licensing, maybe you can find what you need there?
Indeed I manage to manually install most of the codecs from rpmfusion and got Da vinci studio to work ! No video yet in Reaper but I have a few idea to get it working. After a few tweaks, all 5 games I've tried are now working flawless. So far I got one audio interface to work but not another, gonna neee to look into this also. Fedora definitely feels more stable, snappy and workstation oriented than Mint, so I'm probably gonna stick with it in the end. Thanks for recommanding it! Now if I could only get unreal to work with an Oculus Quest 2, I would deleted my windows install and never look back. To might come soon enough. Linux is still a bit challenging, but man, it does rock.