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by marcodiego 905 days ago
Highly configurable, safe, extremely stable, very low latency, high performance and throughput and even realtime if one need or want. Pipewire put an end to the mess was the confusing ballet of pulseaudio and Jack and everything else is maturing nicely. These characteristics put (desktop) Linux on a position that the competition simply can't beat.

They may have had a head start because of very popular and critical software that is un-portable, but the technical superiority is on our side.

AFAIK, there have been some professional successful DAWs for Linux and I can only think it will grow over time.

I saw people using OBS with a few USB cameras with reasonable quality making good quality webcasts and I'm sure that is also doable in the DAW-land. The future seems bright for musicians and recorders who can now be free from proprietary software and build a reasonable good studio at home using non-imorally-priced hardware.
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dash2 905 days ago
This optimism pairs nicely with the next post (“can anyone recommend a sound card… I couldn’t get anything working…”)
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bvrmn 905 days ago
Next post is a clear trolling. 96 channel card user wants to migrate to Linux. Nice story bruh.
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steve1977 904 days ago
While the HDSPe MADI FX is certainly RME’s PCIe flagship, it’s not that uncommon, so why not?

It could also be a HDSPe AES (32 channels) or RayDAT (72 channels). These cards are quite widely in use.

Also the fact that the card supports 96 channels doesn’t mean you need to have as many A/D inputs necessarily.

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louthy 905 days ago
God forbid anybody who wants to use Linux in a professional setting.
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Blackthorn 905 days ago
> but the technical superiority is on our side.

Linux has a bit of a Thunderbolt audio problem though. Apple dragged the world into compatibility with class compliant USB; there's no equivalent for Thunderbolt though :-( we're back in the bad old days of individual (nonexistent) drivers per device.

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steve1977 904 days ago
> the technical superiority is on our side

Getting some Betamax vibes here ;)

But I also don’t really see the superiority versus Core Audio or ASIO-based systems to be honest.

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