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Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 months ago by testman@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I'd love to, but I am too dependent on my VST Plug-in library on Reaper. Running them through Wine/Carla doesn't cut it.

I played with the idea of getting a Mac for music production, and installing a Linux distro on my desktop for gaming and video editing. But I couldn't really justify dropping 1000-2000€ on a laptop with inferior performance to my desktop.
Looked into used specimen, but getting a 3-year old model only gets you a couple more years of software support.

So Windows 11 with a local account and many policy modifications it is.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Be wary of sunk cost fallacy. Sometimes you gotta bite the bullet & allow yourself to see it as some wasted money with the opportunity to start over with something with less lock-in or the boost in creativity of now having to work with new constraints.

[–] glaber@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you considered running the software you need from a virtual machine inside your Linux distro?

[–] Electricblush@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Virtual environments are really not viable for music production. Latency and other inconsistensies makes it a no-go.

High level Music production requires very low audio and input latency in addition to consistent and 100% accurate sound reproduction.

A virtual environment is a wildcard here that I at least would not bother trying to make work. (Not saying it can't be done, just saying it would potentially be a big headache and extremely conditioned on spesific hardware, drivers and configuration settings.)

[–] Brickwald@lemmy.one 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If VSTs are the problem, you could try: https://github.com/falkTX/Carla (I haven't tried it myself so I don't know how well it actually works)

[–] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As I mentioned in the previous comment, Carla isn't cutting it - not stable enough in my experience.

[–] Brickwald@lemmy.one 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, sorry. Missed it 🙂