A portable music production machine, using a customised linux based distro put out by some company like Steinberg or Ableton could actually be quite popular. Large companies like Valve will now create their own devices, which will function as walled gardens. What Valve is doing with the steam deck is pretty indicative of the future, moving away from desktop because the power of mobile computing is increasing to a point where for most a desktop will be pointless. That said, IMO, Desktop computing is on borrowed time. It's all too locked down and late in the day to meaningfully change. All these "top end" DAW's like pro tools and cubase will never ever be ported for use on desktop linux. Producing music on desktop PC's using a linux OS will never ever be popular because of the extra knowledge and effort required to use it. On the PC pro tools is the "industry standard" because it came as a package with the hardware. They're also well represented on music production courses. Back from the days when people preferred macs because they didn't have all the compatibility issues of adding extra stuff to pc's. Macs have always been highly represented in music production. Is this the year of the Linux desktop? Probably not, as the question has been asked every year and the answer was always 'no', and that's fine as speaking for myself music on Linux is do-able. To be clear I'm perfectly happy with music on Linux. The Steam Deck may be the start of Linux going mainstream and we finally get support from hardware manufacturers. There may inherently be a conflict between Linux and profit driven commerce.īut. 90% of the bug reports came from Linux users, and Linux users only made up 10% of the users! Linux users are more likely to notice and report a bug, and this wasn't something the company wanted to deal with. I've seen that presented as a bad thing by software developers. Linux users are more engaged with their OS, and it would seem a lot of people on Reddit are using Linux. It's interesting that almost all of the comments in that thread are about linux.
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