I think you miss the point that it's less catastrophic if they do. The community has the code, and would maintain it during a migration back to Debian if that happened.chk071 wrote:Funny thing is that something like Ubuntu or Linux Mint is much more prone to go "offline" than both Windows and MacOS.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...
When MS ends support for an architecture, that's it. The only way to keep it going is reverse-engineering, and they don'texactly make that easy.