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dirtySourdough
In Your Head by G Jones should fit your request pretty well. I think he uses rapid panning in some of his other songs too, but I haven't dug real deep into his catalog
Mint is great. I love it when shit just works.
Hornithologists
Nice! I haven't heard of those first few, I'll check em out. Soilwork and Between the Buried and Me are solid, so is Periphery
Examples?
I can't let go of it either, though I don't listen to it as frequently anymore. Got any good recs?
Oof, that's rough. Is that the one known as Bully elsewhere? What hasn't been to your liking?
Never heard of nobara, is it supposed to do Linux gaming well?
Oh damn, maybe that isn't my kind of game then 😅 I don't mind a few calculations here and there while gaming but idk if I would find it fun to go full blown engineer to play a video game. I'll still probably give it a go if it's on sale though
That's rough. Honestly online play would be a selling point for me. I've played enough of THPS that a reskin and new soundtrack isn't super enticing to me
I strongly recommend Mint Cinnamon for those coming from Windows. It just works and feels similar, though it's not a perfect comparison and will require you to explore things a little bit. Even so, you should be able to run most things without the command line or worrying about how the OS and file system are structured