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mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:22 am

Like the poll says, which one is more important?

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:27 am

Neither.

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:33 am

I vote for C.

rlared · Post by **rlared** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:10 am

Running under rexbuntu

summer2000 · Post by **summer2000** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:02 am

Ask Bitwig.

Greenstorm33 · Post by **Greenstorm33** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:14 am

I think it's cool that there's a big-name DAW available to people who want to use an open-source OS.

Trancit · Post by **Trancit** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:42 am

summer2000 wrote:Ask Bitwig.

Hihi...

imrae · Post by **imrae** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:03 am

Rex support can be added with plugins, Linux support can't.

Also, Linux support is your fallback to ensure you can still make music when Apple and/or MS go truly off the deep end. We're already seeing it with Apple's limited selection of pro hardware and MS baking adverts into the OS...

apondinthestream · Post by **apondinthestream** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:47 am

chk071 wrote:Neither.

slipstick · Post by **slipstick** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:53 am

Yep, both are equally unimportant.

Steve

pc999 · Post by **pc999** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:49 pm

Well, I use Linux, bot not REX

rod_zero · Post by **rod_zero** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:12 pm

I think for market penetration Linux is more important, but for me neither.

pottering · Post by **pottering** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:06 pm

AFAIK, Linux systems can read REX files just fine, like any other file.

Tracktion and Renoise have Linux versions, can't they read .rx2 files?

The Windows version of those can (Tracktion 7 can, not sure about T6).

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:14 pm

imrae wrote:Rex support can be added with plugins, Linux support can't.

Also, Linux support is your fallback to ensure you can still make music when Apple and/or MS go truly off the deep end. We're already seeing it with Apple's limited selection of pro hardware and MS baking adverts into the OS...

Funny thing is that something like Ubuntu or Linux Mint is much more prone to go "offline" than both Windows and MacOS. Ubuntu depends on the goodwill of Mark Shuttleworth and his company, and Linux Mint largely depends on Ubuntu, and on the motivation of the Mint team to go on. It is already very apparent how much Canonical/Shuttleworth set back the Ubuntu project in favour of their base of daily income, which is their cloud solutions.

Same with most of the other distros too, actually.

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:27 pm

imrae wrote:Rex support can be added with plugins, Linux support can't.

Also, Linux support is your fallback to ensure you can still make music when Apple and/or MS go truly off the deep end. We're already seeing it with Apple's limited selection of pro hardware and MS baking adverts into the OS...

As far as Apple goes, they lost me with Logic X and their OS killing/update policy, as far as Microsoft go, they lost me with Windows 10, so when 8.1 becomes XP, I will look into Linux again.

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Which is more important in a DAW, REX support or that it runs on Linux?

Which is more important in a DAW, REX support or that it runs on Linux?