[diggan]

Some year ago I bought a Surface Pro 8 thinking it was the best hardware to run Windows on and holy hell was I wrong. Overheats in two seconds, performance is probably worse than my Steam Deck purchased years ago and the only way I can have it run relatively well is a barebones Linux install. Before that, I gave WSL(2) a try and besides giving me half the performance compared to running Linux the normal way and introducing various compatibility issues (although it's just a VM?!), a recent Windows update broke the WSL image on disk leading to a corrupted install, never managed to recover from that and gave up.

I can't wait for Ableton to (eventually) get their thumbs out of their asses and make Ableton work on Linux so I can dump Windows fully.

Written from my Linux X1 Carbon which also somehow magically works on my patio, don't ask me how.

[in_a_hole]

You may have already heard this but Bitwig runs on Linux and has an Ableton-like workflow, as well as a richer effects system, I'm told.

[vunderba]

Bitwig user here - it's developed by former Ableton developers and the sandboxing system they use for plug-ins makes it rock-solid. Even when a plug-in does crash (which is rare) - it doesn't take the entire DAW with it.

[epoxy_sauce]

I too want ableton on Linux but then what about our vsts. Would we need a Linux version for all those too?

[_fat_santa]

Dumb question but have you tried running Ableton via Wine/Proton?