It’s just objectively true that a very specific type of person makes up most of Lemmy, which results in the only active communities being either very broad topics, or the handful of interests common to the kind of people who use Lemmy. I don’t fit into any of these.
Music production holds me back. Didn’t test gaming, but I have faith that it’s more or less the same experience as the Steam Deck, and that would tie into a general sentiment I’ve seen around that gaming is no longer the biggest barrier to Linux adoption.
A. FL Studio runs like shit on WINE for me. Maybe it’s usable on a CPU under ten years old (I’m currently on an FX-8320) because I’ve heard others claim it runs at near-native speeds for them, but on Windows I only have performance issues on a project file that has every reason to be intensive. Even if I switched DAWs to something Linux native I’d still need FL Studio to work so I can open my old project files.
B. Two of my most used VST plugins don’t work, and I didn’t even test all of them so others might not work. One I can’t install because the installer doesn’t work, but the other is a free plugin, and that one’s GUI just doesn’t render (and last time I tested Linux it didn’t render under LMMS either, so it has to be a problem with WineVST.)
It’s just objectively true that a very specific type of person makes up most of Lemmy, which results in the only active communities being either very broad topics, or the handful of interests common to the kind of people who use Lemmy. I don’t fit into any of these.
Can I interest you in Linux Mint, today?
I am joking.
Unless you want to try Linux, in which case let me (or any of us) know…
I actually just tested Linux Mint again recently.
Music production holds me back. Didn’t test gaming, but I have faith that it’s more or less the same experience as the Steam Deck, and that would tie into a general sentiment I’ve seen around that gaming is no longer the biggest barrier to Linux adoption.
A. FL Studio runs like shit on WINE for me. Maybe it’s usable on a CPU under ten years old (I’m currently on an FX-8320) because I’ve heard others claim it runs at near-native speeds for them, but on Windows I only have performance issues on a project file that has every reason to be intensive. Even if I switched DAWs to something Linux native I’d still need FL Studio to work so I can open my old project files.
B. Two of my most used VST plugins don’t work, and I didn’t even test all of them so others might not work. One I can’t install because the installer doesn’t work, but the other is a free plugin, and that one’s GUI just doesn’t render (and last time I tested Linux it didn’t render under LMMS either, so it has to be a problem with WineVST.)