I’d love to, but I am too dependent on my VST Plug-in library on Reaper. Running them through Wine/Carla doesn’t cut it.
I played with the idea of getting a Mac for music production, and installing a Linux distro on my desktop for gaming and video editing. But I couldn’t really justify dropping 1000-2000€ on a laptop with inferior performance to my desktop.
Looked into used specimen, but getting a 3-year old model only gets you a couple more years of software support.So Windows 11 with a local account and many policy modifications it is.
If VSTs are the problem, you could try: https://github.com/falkTX/Carla (I haven’t tried it myself so I don’t know how well it actually works)
As I mentioned in the previous comment, Carla isn’t cutting it - not stable enough in my experience.
“learn Linux”
there is nothing to learn, KDE and GNOME are easy to use GUIs and there are distros that require no configuration
screensharing on discord?
don’t use evil proprietary software that doesn’t respect your freedom or privacy, otherwise screen sharing is easy to do on many desktop environments.
Sentiment is fine, but it’s still removing a choice (however misguided, in some people’s views, that is) from the user
“Learn” linux not even a requirement, a lot of distros work fine as a normal-person-os out of the box (Ubuntu & any of its spin-offs, Manjaro, Deepin, etc), with maybe some minimal youtube/forum troubleshooting, probably comparable with the amount you would do on windows.
Eh, I’d say the biggest learning curve is updates and how they’re generally password protected.
It’s actually not straightforward to a new Linux user how to bypass entering your password every time there are updates, and with how often Linux updates, this can create headaches and confusion for new users.
Especially with coming from Windows and being used to Microsoft arbitrarily forcing updates in the background. They are confused because Microsoft gave them zero control, while Linux actually gives them full control, and that can be confusing when you’re used to updates being forced on you in the background.
Linux expects you to be an adult and handle this shit, and does a lot less hand-holding for the casual user, and this can be overwhelming for some new users, because it’s a lot of extra personal responsibility they formerly didn’t have to think about. Some people just don’t have the extra mental energy to dedicate to it all.
KDE Discover does my updates without passwords just fine
only flatpaks
my ostree updates fine
