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Old 06-25-2019, 07:06 AM   #8
mike@overtonedsp
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I'm really happy with Windows...
Then in all seriousness, the best advice is to stick with Windows - Most of the 'general' advantages of using Linux for audio have diminished, especially if your machine came with Windows installed, while at the same time, many of the perceived problems with Windows have improved or are no longer an issue.
It depends what you want to do. Linux allows you to customise and tweak more things, if you would rather do that than make music, but in practice you won't gain much over a stock e.g. Ubuntu installation (though you might be able to convince yourself that you do) - mostly if it works, it just works.
If you depend on Windows plug-ins, then definitely stick with Windows. Running them on Linux, via WINE etc is ultimately self defeating (you are trying to run a binary built for a completely different OS via a third-party compatibility layer emulating proprietary code, after all - it might work, but then one day it won't and you will have no way to discover why. Plus, with support for 32Bit going away in some popular Linux distros, support for plug-ins via WINE might become severely limited, if not impossible)
If you do want to use Linux, what you need is plug-ins (and hosts) built natively for Linux, (and the only way that's going to happen more, is if enough people want it that more developers take notice. Continuing to hack together Windows plug-ins - or host applications - on top of Linux does not make that need / market for native Linux equivalents visible.)

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