Yep, i'm glad to be just a simple penguin now, because I was totally lost penguin when I started, not in a hurry either and, I am curious to check out distros and what have we.
I have the WINE thing and Wineasio to mess with now, I could actually get Live 10 to be installed even and run with PlayOnLinux, but yet to figure out the asio part, I shall find out.
REAPER is nema problemo, should be nema problemo.