FalkTX has actually worked on a lot of big music programs for Linux, but I didn't know he was behind PipeWire. That's awesome because he's ideal for the job since he develops audio-production software. Leonard Poettering I believe worked for Red-Hat, and he developed Pulseaudio. A bunch of people talk bad about him and Pulseaudio, but I always loved it honestly. I think it had lots of problems when distros started to adopt it, but since Ubuntu 14.04 when I started using Linux it always worked well for me.

I couldn't live without VM's at this point, but of course if it's an OS you're going to really be using it's best to have it installed. I keep Windows 10 & 11, MacOS, Android, Plan 9, Haiku, and React OS in VM's though. Every once in a while I'll need to do something with Windows, but very rarely.
And unfortunately if I wanna play some of my games I still have 2 PC's with Windows on them for dual-boot. One of the best things about Steam is their In Home Streaming feature because you can have a gaming PC running Windows and use their streaming to play the games from your Linux box. But I don't have the time to game like that these days lol.

How long have you been using Hive?