imo i always saw it as an advanced multitrack tape editor style program. idk what update it was, but it was after the buyout where the accuracy of the change speed effect got worse, especially for longer clips (like an hour or 2) where it would just desync entirely. last time i checked they have it on the backend of priorities. tells everything you need to know.
That logo is already giving me AI vibes. I’m sticking with floorp.
as far as VST plugins/audio software are concerned, it’s great over here, albeit with the usual WINE quirks once in a blue moon. the only thing stopping certain VSTs from working correctly (or in rare cases at all) is WINE. WINE ain’t perfect, but is it glorious.
RX10 and SpectraLayers Pro 11 run like a dream too.
the only thing i miss is having every vst work (i’ve learned ot live without the broken ones which are only a couple in my collection, besides that all of them work beautifully, aside from a few that have flickery UIs). FL Studio on Linux is awesome.
he actually did nothing wrong
The left 4 dead 2 thing could have been fixed by running the game through Proton, as the native Linux port of thegame is less than stellar. Helldivers 2 is Helldivers 2, and honestly I wish LS just did a bit more research on PopOS to know that it switched to COSMIC (or just right out the bat didn’t make ChatGPT choose a distro for him by regurgitating those awful listicles with outdated info), and maybe, just maybe, reconsidered installing an OS at a LAN party. I’m sorry but if you’re installing an OS at a LAN party and let alone trying to troubleshoot things while people are waiting for you on a match, everyone will laugh at you.
However I will give LS the benefit of the doubt on Cosmic, that windows duplication bug was insane. idk how System76 decided Cosmic is ready for release now. They could have at least put it up as a second download option with a short disclaimer alongside the GNOME version or something.
Elijah and Luke did way better imho. They actually went onto the internet, chose the distro after a little bit of thread hunting and a little research, and tried their best to troubleshoot their problems.
is he still gonna try it on that jank ass setup that i know he’s still using then whine to the OS when nothing works right? Haven’t watched the previous one fully but Luke was more reasonable imo, Linus was just a whiny little shit.
So i’ve watched the 2nd episode, Linus is using an actual computer this time, which is a step up, but he had the bright idea to let ChatGPT recommend him a distro (PopOS again, which he didn’t do any further research on, especially consdiering now that they’re sipping an unfinished COSMIC DE in prod), and outstepping that with an even brighter idea: choosing to install the OS and deal with troubleshooting at a LAN Party, Yup, you heard that right, a LAN party. The perfect place to troubleshoot things while you have people who are waiting on you to start a match.
The problems he does encounter are indeed issues with the native linux port of L4D2 (audio levels changing and general source linux build bugs), also helldivers bugs in general, and it wouldn’t be current PopOS without a Steam window duplication bug.
The rest of the team are (like in the last one if i remember correctly), miles better, they actually allocated some time to troubleshooting and didn’t let ChatGPT recommend a distro for them, they actually used the internet.
jokes on them i’m already on linux (been since 2018). Failing that i’d honestly use veracrypt, just so that the key is with you and only you, but considering how invasive MS is with their copilot idk if i would really trust them not seeing anything.
wiped a windows partition with grub while trying to install an iso to a usb stick (just woke up and thought that was a good idea to be doing), realised my mistake, had bad ram at the time and so i bit the bullet and installed linux cause windows wouldn’t get past the initial install screen, 2 pcs later and i’m still rocking linux. switched in the tail end of october 2018 and i laugh at the state of windows ever since then.
To expand upon the point of running Windows VSTs in Linux in FL via WINE, teh initial setup is very, very tedious, as you have ot install all the essential windows dependencies/bloat in order to make all of them run. off the top of my head i can think of .net framework and visual c++ (yes, you will need to install most.all of them, takes quite a while you cna imagine). and enve after that, once you have all your VSTs working (or most of them), one odd WINE update can either cause the GUI of a plugin to not render, leaving you to either go in blind or control the plugin by browsing its parameters (which pray the dev has made them automatable), or less likely but more devastating it just won’t work anymore, either by instafreezing your daw, or straight up crashing it. had that happen with Spectral Compressor, it will forever be missed. Lucily subsequent WINE updates can fix the UI break issue, but it’ll feel like forever until that update lmao
TLDR if you can deal with maybe a few of your plugins breaking, hopefully getting ifxed after a WINE update, and a chance that one or two plugins just don’t run (classic WINE jank), it’s pretty much smooth sailing cause FL actually runs pretty damn good in WINE, i’d say shockingly close to native. Only things that don’t work for me are the WebView rendered stuff (like diagnostics and gophr but i don’t use gophr. A friend of mine got diagnostics to work by installing dotnet and webview2, i already had them installed and it didn’t work). WINE can vary from system to system.