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Yeah unless the sides are cleaned up this is a branch.

I am young and have a computer science degree, and I still struggle at times. I get it.

For games, I'd try to install steam and run them through steam if thats how you'd normally do it on windows. Then for me the main setting to play with (on a game by game basis) is setting the game to use proton (in the compatibility settings of the game) and whether or not to use steam input for controller support.

If you are trying to install a non steam game, maybe look into lutris. Though I'm on the techy side, and I hear a lot of people like heroic game launcher on the less techy side.

Good luck. I think it's fair to run out of energy while trying get the right combo, but if ya stick to it I'm confident you'll find the set up that works for you.

Yeah I feel Linux has a lot of dead ends. Its easy to follow the wrong path. My saving grace has always been that once you get things working, you know how you did it and it likely won't change much.

So really its a big search, but once you hit a steady state it really feels like home.

Awesome sounds good!

Ooof it can get pretty techy. Once you get it set up you likely won't have to mess with it again though.

I've done that set up many times, so if you want help I'm happy to answer questions.

I use a pipewire w/ qjackctl to connect Ardour to my speakers and midi keyboard. I do this on fedora Linux.

Surge XT can do 98% of everything I need. It has a ton of waveforms, filter types, and modulation options. It's a great synth.

In the rare case that SurgeXT can't do what I want, I turn to zynaddsubfx. It is complicated, but really one of the wildest synths out there.

Last resort is this open source fork of VCV rack I found. So at the end of the day if you need to you can just build the synth you need.

Here is my software set up for open source music making (I often use midi and audio input):

Core software:

• Ardour as my DAW.
• Liquid SFZ as my SFZ player.
• SurgeXT as my soft synth.

For SFZ instruments:

• Virtual Playing Orchesta (free full orchestra)
• Versilion freeware instruments (mostly orchestra)
• Blonde Bop drumkit

Raw samples:

• samples.kb6.de for drum machine samples

For effects:

• LSP plugins for my basics (eq, compression, etc)
• Airwindows Plugins for fun effects (and some basics)

Ardour is supposed to have a midi related update for its next big release, so stay tuned.

From my perspective, the simplest set up would be Ardour and SFZ instruments. Mainly because I'm quite used to those two.

For set up you'd just open Ardour, make a new midi track, place liquidsfz as the first plugin on the track, then open liquidsfz and browse to the SFZ file you want to use.

Then you just draw in the midi notes you want using either the edit or draw tool.

For most shareholders in most businesses, the risk is that you are no longer as rich as your peers.

Most US households can't weather a $1000 unexpected expense without going into debt.

To be real, capital gains are the definition of inequality. It is making money by having enough money to own something. There is no other economic force that drives inequality more.

Small business is a decent minority of US employers. It can't be ignored, but it is the unlikely case when sampling by employee or just by random citizen.

At most an owner can be reimbursed for their costs of starting the business. Past that I don't see any reason to give them a special share of the profits. Even that feels generous given how unequal we are, and that fact that having the money to start a business means you are likely more privileged than your employees.

Depends, are you considering the fact that 90% of stocks are owned by the top 10% of Americans? Also are you considering that being in the top 10% means you likely have rich friends and family that could bail you out? I think black rock is going to be fine.

Most businesses aren't like my friends parents little Chinese restraunt.

To me using the, "think of the shareholders" line is silly for a reason. The biggest privilege is the privilege to make mistakes without becoming impoverished. Workers have it much harder in that respect.

Edit: grammer

Skill issue

Lmao

I'm all for having more options. Though deep down I just want everyone to work on Ardour lol.

How do these browser based DAWs stay funded? Is there enough community money to keep these things up?