he/him. Lawyer. Administrator of the End Software Patents campaign.
Probably the Free Software Directory.
For DAW, you may also want to check out Zrythm and Ardour.
The patent was about a “sorting system”. More info here.
You are thinking of software as if it exists in a vacuum. Software that is libre is a political statement. Software that is proprietary is also a political statement. Lemmy choosing to be decentralized/federated/interoperable is also a conscious political decision just as Apple chose to create its own proprietary ecosystem instead of caring about interoperability.
This is the oldest Lemmy post I could find :)
Dasharo works on Z690-A, yes. You may want to check compatibility reports for the CPU and GPU on their website/GitHub first, though.