Despotic Machine

Redhat is not the original. Just of the ongoing projects, there is both Slackware and Debian, which are both older than Redhat. Redhat stands out because they are a commercial, for profit company, so they have more money and resources to invest in Linux development than most organizations, and they have a vested interest since it is their product base.

Anyone know how this performs compared to jshelter?

Bitwig has a native Linux app, and is made by ex-Ableton developers.