• HucklebeeEnglish
    9•9 months ago

    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.

    • Refurbished RefurbisherEnglish
      5•9 months ago

      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.

      • HucklebeeEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        Hmm interesting. I’m a Cubase user with many steinberg plugins and some Arturia stuff. When I googled it, I didn’t seem to find much information about Linux support. But maybe I should give it a try. Thanks for sharing!

        • Refurbished RefurbisherEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          Can’t hurt! Might run into a speedbump or two where you have to do a DLL override or something, but you might get lucky and not have to do anything.

          I haven’t tried Cubase, though.

      • Go-On-A-Steam-TrainEnglish
        1•9 months ago

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

        • Refurbished RefurbisherEnglish
          3•9 months ago

          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.

          • Go-On-A-Steam-TrainEnglish
            2•9 months ago

            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 :)

    • Go-On-A-Steam-TrainEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      Agreed, not just plugins its also Ableton Live for me! There is nothing that scratches that for me, bitwig does look promising eventually though. :)

      Then on top of that wanting to develop games without learning another game engine (I’m far into a game, and can’t change engine without starting again)

      And I wanna play Baldurs Gate 3 again dammit! (To be fair I think that might work and haven’t looked) :) .

      I used Linux for 5 years and loved it, have a pi and a degoogled Foss phone as much as possible. I am an ally to it all, but have usecases which dictate Windows … I think it’s not unreasonable to want something to get better without binning 70℅ of why I use my computer. :)

      Edit: I just learned this thread, wine might work with Ableton, this is great news :)