My music recording tech journey goes something like this:
Two cassette players wired together,
TASCAM portastudio 414
`snd` on Debian
Audacity? I think? on Debian
definitely Audacity on Mint
Reaper on Mint
TASCAM DR24 + Reaper
I still use the portastudio as an effects bus sometimes
Link to snd page appears to be dead. Wayback snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20251207101535/https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/snd.html