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You are mixing up capabilities with inconvenience.
by fons 7y ago
You are mixing up capabilities with inconvenience.
- pjmlp 7y agoThen one wonders why Linux will never matter on the desktop, regardless of what Apple and Microsoft might do. Regular people aren't compiling kernels.
- einr 7y agoRegular people aren't compiling kernels, they're installing something like Ubuntu Studio (https://ubuntustudio.org/ https://ubuntustudio.org/) that comes with everything you need preconfigured out of the box.
- pjmlp 7y agoRegular people also don't install on OS distribution either, they buy a laptop/desktop system.
- coldtea 7y agoYou're mixing up capabilities with extra work with capabilities with no work. If OS X also had tailor made kernel just for lower real time latency it could do even better. But out of box, it's already better. That said, the point is moot. 99% of pro audio/MIDI apps/VSTs don't run on Linux, so only experimental nerdy musicians and FOSS zealots would use it for real studio work. You do get the occasional profile on music tech websites e.g. "Techno musician X uses Linux", and somebody always jumps in a forum to say they use some Linux DAW (and usually add a list of ugly hacks, workarounds, and things that don't work), but it's clearly a total outlier situation...
- WWLink 7y agoSomething something real world enterprise solution. Big megacorp using Dells everywhere with Windows. Bla bla bla.
- coldtea 7y agoSomething something snark missing the point. Nobody said Linux can't for some law of nature run music software. But it's empirically true that it both lacks 99% of music software people want to run, and that it's not used by 99% of musicians...