Like many others have suggested, you may want to try Bitwig. I understand that it’s the alternative DAW that is the most similar to Ableton. The company was started by a group of ex-Ableton employees, so it’s not a coincidence. Many people online feel that it’s in general a better DAW than Ableton, so you may end up liking it. It supports Linux natively, even provides an official flatpak (or Ubuntu installer?)
It’s not as expensive as some make it out to be, and it’s on sale right now for a few more days. I just yesterday bought Bitwig Studio Essentials. They have 3 editions and Studio Essentials is the starter version, currently $79 (reg. $99). The next level up is Studio Producer, currently $149 (reg. $199), and the top level is just Studio, currently $299 (reg. $399). They also offer rent to own for $16/month for 25 months on Splice.
Awesome post, thank you! I’m a huge fan of rally in general and bought Art of Rally pretty much when it was released. Here are some other cool driving and rally games that come to mind:
GeneRally 2: top-down arcade racer in early access, sequel to a popular freeware game from the early 2000s. It has a track editor and probably nice arcade physics like its precursor.
Driver: retro Playstation 2 title that lets you be the badass getaway driver of 70s movies. If you haven’t heard of this, it’s so good in terms of emulating those types of movie scenes.
Rally Trophy: retro rally sim that focuses on historic rally cars from the 60s and 70s, i.e., mostly 2WD and RWD.
Mobil 1 Rally Championship: retro rally sim that was known from what I recall for having realistic full-length stages of the real British Rally Championship. We’re talking 20, 30+ minute stages from what I remember reading. I think that this is really cool and wish that there would be more games like this. There used to be mods that fixed issues with some aspects of the physics on it.
Xpand Rally: it seems that one unique feature of this retro rally game was that it included a track editor so that you could edit the game’s stages or design brand new ones.
Finally, a game that’s not about driving at all, but about being a rally mechanic: Rally Mechanic Simulator. I just discovered this recently and it looks interesting.
Note: this thread is on the Steam Deck community but I’m not sure about the compatibility of any of these games with that. Check before buying.