Experience says otherwise.roman.i wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:37 amIn practice only areas it works well are education, science, and engineering.
It's been described in this thread, at length, how well Linux can work these days, by people who are actually doing things with it - things that, according to you, shouldn't work well. If you were actually interested in the subject, you would take this into account, and participate in actual friendly and curious dialog about it. Instead, you choose to disregard all that, and just repeat negative blanket statements. You have already said the idea of doing music on Linux is "dumb", and now you are saying this is the sole realm of "a few geeks in this thread", haha.roman.i wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:37 am Why companies try to support Linux? Probably because the tools they use became cross-platform and they can compile their software for Linux as well. So why not? It's good for marketing and buzz around their product. No one really believe in this, except few geeks in this thread.
For one, this geek over here does audio and music for a living
... As I said, read my first reply in this thread to get an outline of what I currently use on the Linux side.The way you approach this tells more about you than it tells about the actual topic.
This statement is problematic in multiple ways. First, it's questionable in itself, and there are indeed plenty of people using commercial tools on Linux. Not once have I heard from a colleague, "I wasn't welcome here and there, because I use [insert commercial toolkit here]", heh. Second, it's subtly implying that it's, in any case, required to be welcomed into OS communities of your chosen operating system, or otherwise the system is doomed into being unsuitable for doing this or that. Of course it's nice to be welcomed; it's just that this idea itself is a bit strange, and the way you are using it is more like a rhetoric throwaway comment, "oh, another thing, it's also bad because... [this thing I thought of that sounds believably negative]."roman.i wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:37 amWith Linux you think you're doing the right thing, but in a fact you are not welcome in Linux communities with your paid closed source software.
I've been using Windows audio software for decades, and have never been a part of Windows OS communities.
In other words, instead of the OS itself, I'm more interested in being a part of communities for audio/music professionals, and select communities of the creative tools that I use (these days VCV, for example, and certain game engines, and so on). The OS itself just works well and I happily configure it and use it for running software environments that allow me to produce stuff fluidly and be creative; nowadays, no matter whether I'm on Windows or Linux, this is the case.
Nice constructive discussion is unlikely, given the content and tone of those previous messages, so I'm more like leaving these comments of mine here, again like a counterweight of sorts, so that someone reading this might bump into them and go "okay, so, things can work out these days like this, after all"
... Time to get some actual work done, hah.
... Really, that's cool. I was an outlier and ran OS/2 for a good stint back then on a personal system, as a teenager, lol! At the turn of the century, I even ran BeOS like that for a while. Weird times. But the first time I got into Linux, on any system, was no earlier than 2005 with Debian Sarge. Main audio/music work remained on Windows for way over a decade after that, 2005 that landscape on Linux was waaay sparser in that regard than it is nowadays. Very, very different. Now, using Windows and Linux interchangeably, and enjoying the niceties I described earlier in this thread.