Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
At some point you might want to record some of the music you have been playing. Of course you can hold your phone next to your guitar and record, and at times you don't need more than that. But what if you want to do a bit more, actually record a full song, or multiple layers of instruments. That's when DAW's come into play.
What are some of your favorites? What are the ones that in specific cases do a thing really good, but in other scenarios not so much.
Back in the day I used Sonar, but I didn't like it after 5.0. It completely fucked up my workflow and made everything a lot more cumbersome.
After a 10 year hiatus due to life happening I tried starting again. I gave Ardour a shot (I had migrated to linux), and while it worked well for multitrack recording, its lack of piano roll for editing midi made it impossible for me to use in the long run.
I recently started using bitwig, and I love it