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Post by louthy »

curtisblaine wrote: post #227
louthy wrote: post #60

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Bitwig works on Linux, but the problem I had was that my pro-audio soundcard [1] didn’t have supported drivers and I couldn’t get the open source drivers to work. I tried switching to a Dante based solution: none of the Dante based apps worked, so I tried AES67 (open source Dante), still no joy — I just could not get my Dante/AES67 AD/DA converters (which attach to everything in my studio) to be ‘seen’ on Linux. So a…

The DAW is just a small part of it. You need all the plugins to work too :(

Who uses plugins? ;)

The reason I have a need for so much IO is that nearly all of my processing goes through external hardware (EQs, compressors, delays, reverbs, filters, phasers, chorus, summing mixer, multi-FX units like Eventide H3000 & H8000) and I have a wall of modular gear + about 20 synths and drum machines.

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

bigyabai wrote: post #235
amanaplanacanal wrote: post #215

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I'm an old guy who has run Linux off and on from the very beginning. Every so often I attempt to replace my windows laptop with Linux, and it always turns into days of dinking around with configuration hacks and installing this and that and the other thing trying to get all my software to work. There always some roadblock that prevents migrating completely. Eventually I always end up going back to Windows. I wish it…

As a young guy that hasn't installed Windows in 6 years, I do hope you hold out faith!

I think part of the problem is I have decades invested in proprietary software in the Windows ecosystem. If I didn't have that investment it would likely be easier. Don't make my mistake! :)

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Post by bongodongobob »

queuebert wrote: post #125
0x02f0bcd4 wrote: post #102

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With windows 10 lifetime coming to an end, even though the Enterprise edition still going to be supported for some while, eventually the world will move on to Windows 11. Unless someone breaks that cycle of Windows being the dominant OS.

And RIP my perfectly good and working computer without a TPM chip. Guess I'll switch it to Linux ...

Go ahead. You're not their customer, they couldn't care less. Enterprise is their customer.

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Post by hbn »

ConceptJunkie wrote: post #220
hbn wrote: post #193

This is only tangentially related, but I just started using Brave (on Windows) in the past couple weeks in preparation for uBlock Origin being blocked in Chrome. Once I disabled all the weird service integrations/upsells it's been a decent enough experience. But the one bizarre thing I've found is typing in the YouTube comment box is laggy as hell for some reason. No other text field that I've found has this issue, j…

I've been using Brave since forever and comment on YouTube a fair bit and have never experienced this. There are a few instances where I had to go to another browser to make a website work, but even those have become vanishingly small. Could it be an extension?

Yeah, I suppose I'll have to play the disable-one-extension-at-a-time game.

It's one of those issues that's so infrequent and just tolerable enough because it's not like I'm writing essays in youtube comments, it's easier to just tolerate it for 10 seconds than to put the effort into figuring it out!

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Post by __rito__ »

dataflow wrote: post #209
__rito__ wrote: post #118

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What stops you from dual-booting? You use Windows for games, and only games. For everything else , you use Linux. This is a practical setup.

> This is a practical setup. What if you need to check emails or take care of some other task mid-game?

> check emails

I just do it on my phone if needed.

> some other task mid-game

Like what? Something taking long, serious, and business/work related? Then you are stopping to play anyway.

Or want to order something via Amazon? You can do it on the phone. The app or any browser is sufficient.

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Post by gchamonlive »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #242
bigyabai wrote: post #235

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As a young guy that hasn't installed Windows in 6 years, I do hope you hold out faith!

I think part of the problem is I have decades invested in proprietary software in the Windows ecosystem. If I didn't have that investment it would likely be easier. Don't make my mistake! :)

This is a sunk cost that in a few years will have been mitigated. You already understand the value proposition for Linux, otherwise you wouldn't have attempted this transition multiple times. So I think it's a matter of getting used to it.

But I also think context matters. Maybe you also need work that motivates you to use Linux or is impossible or quite inconvenient to do on Windows.

In any case, using Windows is fine. I don't think the user is to blame for the shortcomings of the brand. It's like with conscious consuming products that don't harm the environment. It's important to seek those, but if you have to go out of your way it's just not gonna happen.

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Post by __rito__ »

hodgehog11 wrote: post #161
__rito__ wrote: post #115

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Linux Mint remains the most stable, least babysitting required, solid distro for beginners. Ubuntu is also okay. Pop, Zorin, Elementary, etc. are great choices, too. But if you ask me one , I will suggest Linux Mint. All Linux Mint releases are Long Time Support (LTS) versions, btw. With support for five years.

Pop is woefully out of date at this point due to the ongoing alpha development of COSMIC. I switched off because a whole bunch of Nvidia-related things started breaking. LTS doesn't seem ideal for Nvidia in my experience.

I just have seamless experience with Ubuntu.

Wdym about LTS not being ideal for NVIDIA?

The OS receives updates, NVIDIA drivers also do. What is the problem?

Am I missing something?

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Post by isomorphic- »

Obligatory reminder that Brave has been caught doing nefarious things such as 1) injecting cryptocurrency affiliate links into your pages; 2) installing paid VPN software without consent; 3) injecting their own ads into pages; 4) scraping and reselling data; 5) their website taunts browsers that use Mozilla user-agents; 6) and more. With that sort of immoral development team, I wouldn't trust their browser or products.

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Post by jancsika »

louthy wrote: post #195
dfedbeef wrote: post #162

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The reliable way to do this (I found) is check the kernel source tree first. The supported pro sound cards are, typically, kind of old. Because FOSS developers aren't just gifted hardware and documentation to write the drivers so they're a generation or two behind. Counterintuitively; using the latest kernel can be more stable as bug fixes are merged. RME does have a few supported cards (I use one) but they're mostly…

> The reliable way to do this (I found) is check the kernel source tree first Sure, in general that's good advice, but it becomes more complicated depending on the solution/situation... I’d bought the RME card long before I was hoping to make it work with Linux. I'd been running Windows for a long time for work reasons, so I had my dev work and my music setup on the same computer (a 64 core Threadripper machine, with…

> it cost $13467 to leave Windows

I rather think it cost you $mac_mini to buy a mac mini, and $compulsion buying hardware for reasons I still do not understand.

Paul Davis has lurked here at least as long as you have, and it would have cost $0 just to ask if that card is currently supported in Linux.

I mean, for $13467 I bet I could buy a plane ticket to Shenzhen, hire a translator, and have them send an email to Collabora to quote a price to develop the firware/driver I can afford with the money I have left over.

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Post by johnisgood »

poulpy123 wrote: post #225
johnisgood wrote: post #202

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Well, I have been told by many people to install Windows on their PC or laptop. I installed Linux instead. They were quite happy with that. If you want it out of the box, there are laptops out there with Linux pre-installed, but it is not as common, unfortunately. So I do not see the irony. They usually ask someone to install an OS, or they buy a computer pre-installed with an OS.

If you do all the work, they indeed don't need to spend time and energy on the switch itself, and even better if their usage is limited enough they don't encounter missing software or incompatibilities with the windows world. The irony is that before doing the work for the switch, and even before doing the work of checking if the switch is feasible for their need, they will need to spend time and energy to select whi…

So the problem with switching to Linux is that they have to spend the time and energy to choose a Linux distribution? If we are to nitpick, it is not that easy with Windows either. Which Windows version? Which torrent is the right one? The last question is because most people here do not have a legit copy, they torrent it. It took me longer to find the right version of Windows to torrent than to search for "top Linux distributions for beginners".
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