He navigated to the Toon Boom website, his heart sinking a little as he remembered the tales of old—tales of dependency hell, missing libraries, and audio drivers that refused to speak to the software. Toon Boom Harmony supported Linux, sure, but it was often treated like the eccentric cousin at the family reunion—present, but high maintenance.

On other operating systems, setting up the Python environment for Toon Boom could be a headache of path variables and conflicting versions.

The cursor blinked in the terminal, a steady, rhythmic pulse that matched the pounding in Elias’s chest.