Your OS of choice for music production

[gruberman]

You can always run Reaper via Wine in Ubuntu. From my experience, it runs well.

There's a Linux version of Reaper. No need for wine.

Can you load Windows VST plugins in the Linux version of Reaper? I know there's Lin2Vst converter, but it seems hit and miss in terms of performance and usability. That's why I preferred using the Windows version in Wine, I can't imagine myself making music without any plugins.

It's the usual hit or miss

I use Bitwig on my linux box so I don't use any non-native plugins. Your best bet is to do what you are doing now and run it in wine.

[imrae]

Most days I use Linux for real work, Mac for laptops and Windows for gaming and music. Have made bedroom records on all three of those platforms, and they all come with major downsides. You have to pick the least bad option for your personal situation!

[DJ Warmonger]

I'm yet to see a successful artist who produces music on Linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Windows is a nice compromise of stability and support vs. price. So many freebies here

[Gamma-UT]

If you're running a workstation like a Motif or a Kronos, you are using Linux to produce music. Quite a few people are successful with a workstation-based setup.

[DJ Warmonger]

If you're running a workstation like a Motif or a Kronos, you are using Linux to produce music. Quite a few people are successful with a workstation-based setup.

These are self-contained products ready to run out-of-the-box, right? They do not need user to manage updates and drivers on his own?

Most of embedded devices in this world run Linux, but it doesn't mean that every smart fridge or kiosk user is Linux user.

[Gamma-UT]

Here's what you wrote: "I'm yet to see a successful artist who produces music on Linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

If you want to keep moving the goalposts just so you can be "right" that's up to you.

Most of embedded devices in this world run Linux...

This isn't even remotely true. It's going to be something like VxWorks, VRTX, µCoS, mBed or Joe Engineer's home-brew kernel they cooked up with a little help from the µCoS source code.

[telecode]

I use only Raspberry Pi

[Calenberger]

Real analogue equipment: cassette tape recorder...

[Meffy]

Mac or Windows, whichever I have a better machine for at the moment. Right now that's a Mac; it's also got a better audio interface.

I love Linux for coding but have never succeeded at getting a DAW to run well on it so I use it for what works best on it in my experience.

[jdnz]

It takes me 5-10 minutes every morning to manually reconnect the Mac to all the network drives, something the PC does automatically

so I presume you’re manually remounting the finder ‘connect to server’ option?

very easy to automatically mount network volumes on login on MacOS : https://www.imore.com/how-automatically ... ives-macos

[BONES]

No, IT have a Self Service application we use to connect to all the drives we need. The "Connect to server" thing actually doesn't work with our network, I think because they use a lot of aliases so they can take things off-line for archiving, etc. Our server room is as big as a 3 bedroom house. If it was possible to automatically connect, I'm sure that's what we'd do.

[jdnz]

No, IT have a Self Service application we use to connect to all the drives we need. The "Connect to server" thing actually doesn't work with our network, I think because they use a lot of aliases so they can take things off-line for archiving, etc. Our server room is as big as a 3 bedroom house. If it was possible to automatically connect, I'm sure that's what we'd do.

weird - we do do automatics mounting, and our infrastructure is orders of magnitude bigger.

Possibly it comes down to us also using DFS (because it is so big/complex) - we haven't mapped to actual servers in well over a decade.

[BONES]

It might also be that only two departments use Macs, for absolutely no reason I can think of. TV stations run on PCs - all the studio gear, all the scheduling stuff, the system that does all the fancy weather maps, everything except News Graphics and Promo Graphics. Thank Dog that will change when we move to our new digs at the end of the year and we all get PCs.

[jdnz]

It might also be that only two departments use Macs, for absolutely no reason I can think of.

nah - all our server infrastructure is windows server based - yet we still manage to support the macs

could just be that since you're an isolated island of macs your IT dept just can't be bothered - wheras we've got hundreds of macs (and thousands of PCs)

[BONES]

Actually, we come under Broadcast Engineering and they have a couple of Mac specialists there. We only talk to IT when our email breaks. What does your network get used for? We're doing everything in HD, dozens of people hitting the servers at the same time, calling up tens or hundreds of gigs of data each, so it's not like your average office network. We pretty much never work locally unless something is broken. They moved a lot of it onto an Isolon system a couple of years ago and it got a lot better after that but the Macs are still a lot flakier than the PC I've been testing. I think in the last three months it has only lost the network once where it was a daily occurrence on my Mac (Finder crash, all drives gone, restart the Mac).