¢нαяℓιє яσσт :arch: :openpepe: 🌶️ on Nostr: Sorry guys, the Linux experiment is over. yabridge and wine are just too unreliable ...

Sorry guys, the Linux experiment is over. yabridge and wine are just too unreliable and it's not an optimal or efficient environment for producing the kind of music that I want to produce. I spent a week fighting with it, and got no music made. Linux itself and Lubuntu are speedy and reliable but the wine wrapping of plugins is not. The fact that I paid good money for some of these tools doesn't help, I can't even get proper VU meters to work on my Shadow Hills mastering compressor, and those meters are important.

Serum's GUI would stop working sometimes a couple minutes into a session, I had to create multiple prefixs for some plugins to work, and then a wine update broke everything and I had to put in gnarly AWK commands to downgrade it and then had to lock the packages from updating. This is all too much, way too much for a guy to deal with when he just wants to get tracks finished and learn to use Reaper.

Furthermore the intel media drivers in Linux suck. Being forced to use picom for screen tearing sucks. Reaper in Windows is visibly faster and the menus snappier. Reaper just runs smoother and I have zero crashes.

It's not Linux or Ubuntu's fault per say, its just that emulation of Windows software will always be a mixed bag of dicks in my opinion.