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by jancsika
330 days ago
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> it cost $13467 to leave Windows I rather think it cost you $mac_mini to buy a mac mini, and $compulsion buying hardware for reasons I still do not understand. Paul Davis has lurked here at least as long as you have, and it would have cost $0 just to ask if that card is currently supported in Linux. I mean, for $13467 I bet I could buy a plane ticket to Shenzhen, hire a translator, and have them send an email to Collabora to quote a price to develop the firware/driver I can afford with the money I have left over. |
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I didn’t need to ask him, I already owned it, I just needed to dual boot Linux to find out, it cost me $0.
You don’t seem to understand that a soundcard needs connecting to everything else in a studio, so there’s no such thing as just changing one thing and it not having a knock on effect (unless you’re really lucky, which I wasn’t).
You also don’t seem to know that once a setup is right, it can last a decade or more, so getting the right combo of gear to minimise friction in a studio is worth it over time, even if it is expensive upfront.
If it makes you feel a little less morally superior, I sold the original soundcard and the two replaced AD/DAs for ~$7200.
And, you still miss the point of the story completely: the point was that it’s too risky for anyone considering building a pro setup on Linux. Especially compared to Windows and macOS where everything is plug and play.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t pockets of success in Linux-land, but that it can be costly in money and time to get it right, and it might never work for the setup you have.
It is risk.
> for reasons I still do not understand.
That’s obvious.
But the reasons are:
* I wanted to move away from Windows because it was unstable and pissing me off
* I already owned a high-end PCI RME card that connected to three Ferrofish A32 Pro converters
* If I could install Linux and have the RME card work then I wouldn’t need to change my studio setup
* There’s no official or stable driver
* So, a change to the setup was required
* To try and future proof the setup I looked to modern protocols like Dante and AES67 as they are taking over pro studios and are much more flexible — I also thought there was a reasonable chance it would work on Linux
* I couldn’t get it working on Linux
* Time is not infinite
* Therefore I bought a Mac for audio
* To avoid the expense of a Mac Pro I had to switch from a PCI based soundcard to a USB based soundcard (which I could plug in to the Mac Mini)
* I still use Linux on the original machine (for dev work), but with a class compliant soundcard for casual use. It’s relatively trouble free, other than half of my usb ports don’t work, but you know, meh
* I haven’t needed to use Windows since. So I consider it a win.