Mugita Sokio

I will have to disagree with that, as you can use Yabridge for the Windows VST’s when using Wine, provided they don’t require iLok. While yes, there is an issue with iLok (because I think they hate Linux users), you could still get a great selection of things specifically for the likes of Ardour, Reaper, Bitwig, LMMS, and other options. My producer, Neigsendoig, and I use Ardour and Zrythm. As for Cakewalk and Ableton, I could see how they don’t work. Apparently, FL Studio can with WINE ASIO from what Neigsendoig researched.

Neither of us would recommend a Mac at all, due to Mac being basically BSD, but with code that could raise major privacy concerns. I think Sendo (Neigsendoig) has tutorials on CoculesNation about setting up Linux for music production.

Also, I hadn’t talked about this yet, but I’d recommend OP look into Ardour, Zrythm, Reaper, and maybe Qtractor as the DAWs of choice.

Windows 10 has support ending for it in October. Linux will probably be the only way to go.

I would NOT recommend biting the bullet for Windows 11. If you want to use it, just make sure you have a virtual machine of Windows 11, and have specific purposes for it. That way, you’ll be able to sandbox the data as necessary.

All the dependencies are stored in the AppImage itself. You can even make an AppImage.home folder so you can make it portable. That’s from my research on the matter, though I use them myself.

Neigsendoig (my producer) and I started to shy away from Flatpaks. We’ve hated Snap already, and rather distro packages, third-party compiled packages and AppImages.

The problem is that we don’t know how to DDoS anything (which is a good problem to have). We already use a different distro, and stay away as best as we can from the above described.

Honestly, IBM deserves to get DDoS’d for their actions. This is because of the push for Wayland, PipeWire, Systemd and some other things they want to shove down our throats.

My producer and I aren’t like that, thankfully.

My producer and I personally use Bash. We tried zsh, but that didn’t treat us very well. Fish is actually pretty nice, though.

Neigsendoig (my producer) and I have used i3 for a while… and we’ve probably stayed on that since we first started using WMs.

That said, we’ve attempted the likes of Xmonad (configured in Haskell), Awesome (configured in Lua), HerbstluftWM, BSPWM, Hypr (not Hyprland), JWM, Ratpoison and even SXWM.

Neigsendoig and I wouldn’t recommend any Wayland compositor due to new security risks (despite an attempt to fix X11 security issues), though a lot of people want Wayland to be shoved down our throats. We personally use X11 due to many things that Wayland devs can’t/won’t fix.

This is also part of the reason why the two of us are excited about XLibre (as much as some will hate the control of IBM, GNOME and FreeDesktop with their Wayland, Systemd and PipeWire push). Sure, its main developer left the project from what we’ve heard, but otherwise, there are a lot of contributions to it, and it will improve big time.

My producer, Neigsendoig, uses Wavlake. I’d be happy to provide a link if you all are interested.

This is why I just use the Chaotic AUR, knowing that something like this was being posted everywhere. My producer, Neigsendoig, does the exact same with his machine.

We both use CachyOS anyway.