Almost all audio plugins you likely use do have native Linux equivalents (but not through the same developer). Check out Ubuntu Studio. Also I think highly of Reaper as a DAW. Reaper is not FOSS, but it is Linux native.
Hey thanks for the Suggestion. Ill definetly will look further into Ubuntu studio. As i understand it includes all the important audio settings and drivers.
For my DAW i use Bitwig which runs natively on Linux, so that would be no Problem. The issue is more with my Hardware, Maschine mk3, and the Software it needs to Operate properly. Also yes i know there is a lot of free vsts, i used them when i started making music years ago. But since then i spent a lot of money on proprietary vsts that in a lot of cases (not all obviously) are just better. Especially when it comes to live sampled Romplers like Kontakt. Ditching my collection of Software i bought is therefore really not an Option. I dont want to talk down foss vsts and DAWs, there is a lot of really great stuff. But i hope you can understand that i dont want to Throw hundreds of Euro worth of Software to the trash.
Went from FL Studio and a lot of windows only vsts to using Reaper in Fedora and some good FOSS plugins plus āVitalā and " decent sampler". Definitely changed up my workflow but feels better at the same time. Iāll still open FL in ābottlesā(compatibility program) to use some of the native cats in there but I donāt even mess with yahbridge to make my paid windows vsts work. Just changed up the flow mostly.
Edit: vsts kept autocorrectung to cats, kept one in.
I have fedora on my laptop and pretty happy with it. I know Vital and it is a great synth. But my vst library Contains a lot of stuff with live sampled Instruments like strings, horns , guitars, Bass and so on and while there are foss alternatives that are decent, they are nowhere near the Quality of a lot of paid stuff (there are exceptions of course). I really dont feel comfortable with ditching the quality i am used to and basically Throw away all the money i have spent on them.
Some of your old proprietary plugins and hardware might work in Linux through a compatibility layer like WINE. Or it might work out of box, no software required. Or it might not work no matter what. Itāll be a bit of a crapshoot for each one.
I will say that JACK and Pipewire may make some of your hardware unnecessary, especially if your using it to get around Windows limited audio routing capabilities.
And of course MIDI stuff will generally work without issues. Itās MIDI.
Iāve never played with that Maschine mk3 so I couldnāt tell you how or it it will function.
You certainly want to test out what you expect to use before moving. The advantage would also be finding apps that run natively on Linux. There certainly are some such DAW apps.
Iām using Manjaro KDE and my games are running fine under Proton on Steam Games. But I play Snowrunner, Red Dead Redemption 2, etc.
A tip on Windows VMs as I do keep one. I discovered that running one with itās Windows files rather on a separate partition formatted at NTFS, really works quite well for me (versus the VM sitting on one massive VM file on the Linux partition. Can see Chrisā video about this at youtu.be/6KqqNsnkDlQ.
Nice thing for just testing Linux, is install it on an external drive, and boot with that. Then your existing machine is completely left as it is, and you can test Linux as it would really run on your computer.
Thanks a lot for the Hint about the vm solution, i will defenitely Look further into it. The only problem with actually running Linux on my Hardware i can think of would be secure Boot. But this can be turned off (i needed it for Windows 11 and some docker stuff i played around with). Years ago i had a dual Boot solution with win 7 and Ubuntu. But in the end i was more on Windows (gaming on Linux was way worse bock then) and eventually kicked Ubuntu off my harddrive.
It isnt even that i have actual Problems with win11, in fact i have to say it runs well and very stable, at least on my System. Its more like an āideologicalā Thing. I just want to have As little big corpo stuff as possible.
That site isnāt RedHat/GNOME. From the bottom of the letter:
Note: Even though some of us are Foundation members or work on GNOME, these are our personal views as individuals, and not those of the GNOME Project, the GNOME Foundation, or our employers.
They arenāt against user theming. Again, from the site:
If you like to tinker with your own system, thatās fine with us. However, if you change things like stylesheets and icons, you should be aware that youāre in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.
Theyāre against distributions shipping custom stylesheets by default. Which makes sense! If a user has a stock installation, and an app looks broken, they arenāt going to assume the distribution messed it up. They might not even know that the distribution changed the theme. It can also cause confusion for users when their app doesnāt look like the screenshots from the developer. These cause issues for app developers.
Thatās it. Thatās all the letter is saying. Itās not a crusade against you theming, itās asking for theming not to be done by distributions.
(P.S. I donāt intend for this to be aggressive. Just wanted to explain a bit more, because the name does soundā¦ not great.)
Yes, but only for apps that which I want to be on the very latest versions. One might ask why I donāt use a rolling release distro, thatās because I prefer a solid LTS base.
I usually use the terminal, so that is something I need to make sure of. Otherwise, using the Software Store I can explicitly choose which version to use.
I want to be on the latest Firefox and to have the latest LibreOffice and some other apps. I want the latest applications, but I donāt want them come at the expense of having my system randomly lose its Wifi at the next boot or some other trash.
FreeBSD had this figured out 25 years ago. Separate the base from the user apps. When I was a teenager, I built -current ports on top of -stable FreeBSD and it was fine.
Now we have the equivalent option in Linux, and it comes from a centrally managed repository i.e. Iām not downloading tarballs and managing my own packages. Iām too old for that crap.
First Linux servers I installed were RedHat 4.2. I stick with RH until 8.0. Then they stabbed us all in the back, starting to charge for it.
Have you RH users been fooled twice?
I switched to the then (and still?) distro that was most strict in commitment to FOSS - heck, they forked FireFox just because of the logo copyrights - Debian.
(RH to kubunto at home, because Debian then was (is?) too āenterpriseā for home, and I wanted to stick to the same packaging)
The only other distro Iāve been using is SUSE (SLES), because thatās what SAP suports for HANA database servers.
SUSE should gradually morph the RH fork into becoming SLES, and always provide an easy automated way to migrate, a one way only route to leave RH.
I like the quotes she put up on the screen about Canonical and System76.
Iāve kept coming back to Ubuntu over the years, but ultimately, they are a corporation, and they need to satisfy their shareholders. Someday they will likely be bought out, then who knows?
Some apps automatically pick up your theme some donāt. For these I give the specific app access to my theme folder with a :ro at the end of the path.
IDEs should work ootb. If some extension doesnāt work, maybe itās because of poor support for Flatpak. 9/10 times youāll find the issue is that app is calling the traditional /usr/bin path etc. when Flatpak installations use different paths.
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