Is Linux A Real Option For Music?

[TechHaus]

Apple sucks for normalizing app stores taking so much money from a transaction. Kind of evil all of the money they sucked up.

[audiojunkie]

Microsoft Corp. seems not able of stopping itself from putting all that tons of telemetry-related junk in Windows (and Apple is even worse)

Public opinion does not agree with that sentiment:
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Wow! And here I thought Lamashtu was a cinch for the win! Looks like a legit poll to me!

[audiojunkie]

Getting a clean and high-end, truly professional Windows OS installation is possible still today, but it's getting really harder and harder and time-consuming (ReviOS).

I have a dream...

Since it's evident we are living in the time of barbarians, culturally speaking (with no offense for the real Barbarians) and Microsoft Corp. seems not able of stopping itself from putting all that tons of telemetry-related junk in Windows (and Apple is even worse), I really hope in an Open Source initiative (a really huge and solid project involving 1000s of devs) putting together Linux + Wine + etc. (ReactOS?) so we can finally have a free, professional (and easy to install and set up) OS based on Linux, but (extremely important) capable of carrying the whole heritage of Windows Softwares/DAWs/Plugins/etc. (from XP to contemporary 10/11 and further).

And say a final goodbye to Microsoft and Apple and their anti-computerscience behaviour.

As someone who has followed ReactOS since its beginnings....... You'll be waiting a long time for this wish. It's really not that bad to port to Linux, according to many of the developers I've spoken with. The key is not to try to support all distros, but to support one old one: Debian. Libraries are backwards compatible. So if you compile your binaries in an old version of Debian, it should be compatible with most all distros. For example, compile to Debian 12 (current version is Debian 13). Create one .Deb and a Zip of the binaries. Debian, Ubuntu and all derivatives can use the .DEB, which covers the most popular distro families. Everyone else can copy the binaries to from the Zip file to the proper folders. It should work for most everyone--quick, clean and mostly problem free.

[xhunaudio]

Yes, it was just to describe the problem in 2 words.

ReactOS is proceeding very (too much?) slowly in order to be sure to use only 100% legal, original, reverse engineered code.

Windows XP/7 were top, workstation-class OSes out-of-the-box. With 10/11 things changed. I can't figure out why I have to spend all that time making 10/11 great again with ReviOS (great initiative). Simplicity should be something out-of-the-box of a product, as it was (once upon a time) with systems like W XP, W 7, IRIX, Solaris, etc.

I would like to see ( and support ! ) an official Microsoft Windows including just the Kernel, a bunch of System Utilities and a few simple common-use Apps (like Paint). Period. An OS core of just a few 100s of megabytes.

Several ex-Microsoft researchers/engineers stated Windows today misses a pro-mode without all that online activator/telemetry/cortana/agents/AI tons of junk.

So my dream : if Microsoft don't want to make Windows great anymore, it would be great to have a real alternative...

In that sense, long live Linux + Wine - or ReactOS, etc. - any kind of effective open source project on that direction !

It would be great to have a free (all meanings of "free"), offline, private OS for workstation-class purposes out-of-the-box, with a deep and complete compatibility and support for all the priceless Windows softwares of the past decades... (32-bit and 64-bit). A real computer-science oriented OS (like with XP/7), outside the current "feed the AI with plebeians" purpose/mechanics.

I don't want to say anything about Apple, I do not consider it a computer company. You can't disable anything from macOS, but I think fanboys are completely fine with that - and with the very colourful Apple Store etc. And same for Google, obviously.