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Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. (programming.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Switch to Linux!

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 108 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (36 children)

Switch to Linux!

As a Linux user myself, let me tell you that telling people what they should/must do this is how you make people plainly ignore you and think you're just an annoying person.

People will keep using what works for them, be it Windows/Linux/MacOS even if with minor inconveniences. Same goes for browsers/services/etc...

[–] Drummyralf@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Exactly. As a musician many paid music plugins simply don't work on Linux because of all the installers attached to them. Also, I design with the Adobe suite for my work, also not viable on Linux (I believe?). I would love to use Linux, but for my needs it's simply a no go.This is what annoys me about all the "just use linux" comments. There are usecases where it's simply not an option.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I've gotten every single Windows VST I've used working on Linux with WINE. Some of them require extra work (Serum and anything needing Native Access specifically), but they still work.

I've also tried both Ableton and FL Studio in WINE, and they both work fine as well.

Adobe suite is something I don't have experience with, though.

[–] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ableton working in Wine you say...? Thank you for sharing, as that would be excellent to try! :)

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. I'd still recommend Ableton users try out Bitwig, though, regardless of OS. It's a fantastic DAW that also happens to have native Linux support.

But yeah, Ableton should work fine with WINE, along with your VSTs. Make sure you use WINEASIO along with JACK. Pipewire works, but I've notoced that it eats up more resources than just using JACK directly, similar to using ASIO in Windows.

[–] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's awesome! Thank you for the rundown, I'll save this comment for the day that I get to making the jump :) It might be a while until I can, but it would be nice to jump back over to the comfortable Linux environment again :)

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

No problem. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

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