Can’t comment on everything, but given you mentioned audio production: a couple of years ago I tried to get ASIO working from within a VM on a Linux host OS and wasn’t having a whole lot of luck.
I think I read somewhere that someone had come up with a special ASIO driver to send the audio directly into the host Linux OS audio subsystem, but I’ve not tried that or measured latency yet.
Lutris is very likely your friend here
Oh yeah I saw the list and am pretty sure I’m not even installing any of them, but claiming the bundle in solidarity
I mean there will be customers for those products, I just don’t get why they’re leaving the mass appeal demographic on the table
I assume this is coming at some point, tbh
I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch
Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.
Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.
You would not want to do this for latency reasons
There was the odd diamond in the rough, but I agree it has been getting increasingly worse.
Weirdly enough I was staying subscribed because if I quit I’d lose my current price for good. Makes no difference now
They are losing business, because revenue goes down.
They will negotiate the prices they pay publishers for a set of keys to use in humble choice to mean they get their 15% cut of the revenue. If a publisher sets the price too high, they’ll go elsewhere until they can get their margin.
If they lose ~25% of their subscribers over a ~40% price hike, they will be right back where they started in terms of profit—which is a place where they would consider hiking the price and losing customers.
That’s about a 40% increase in the amount I have been paying for years without fail, partially at the threat of if I cancel, I lose my grandfathered pricing.
And frankly the quality of the bundles has been dropping for a while.
I guess I finally cancel then. What a silly way to lose business
Edit: and cancelled, happy there was a text box for me to tell them why I’m gone. 8 years of paying monthly apparently
This is much bigger than I anticipated
Proton for ARM is not (currently) a thing, if that’s a factor
If the court would now draw its attention to exhibit B
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I think there’s an alpine build too if your system has low oxygen levels
(Sorry, you made me think of this article)
I’m in the same boat as you, with decades of projects I want to be able to open.
However, OP mentioned Reaper, which has a native Linux version! So as long as they’re not using a load of VSTs, and the ones they do play nicely with Linux, it could work out for them
The only way is to give it a go and find out though
For a good while, Plex was the only game in town that did the job well, and they put the transcoding feature behind the paywall.
Given it wasn’t that expensive for a lifetime pass a number of years ago (I remember it was cheaper than a game anyway) and they still seemed relatively user-centric at the time, many people like me felt like they were supporting developers building something that was useful to us.
I still run my Plex server since it’s not really costing me not to, but I’ve been running Jellyfin too for a little while and it more or less can do the same job these days
for some reason
I’m gonna guess they’re going to release an overpriced bundle of the games
£1 says someone gets physX running on an AMD GPU before a 5xxx one
Just because things have a funny way of working out like that sometimes
Plex is probably the easiest and most convenient, I think jellyfin is viable too, but I don’t use it.
If you’ve got the money, Roon or Audirvana are the gold standard of self hosted music
If you want something similar, but free, look into things like volumio or subsonic based solutions.
By all means try it out, it might have been something down to the drivers for my audio interface (focusrite scarlett) at the time
If you have better luck than I did, I’d love to know!