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  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlArdour 8.10 released
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    22 days ago

    Do you have any recommendations for anyone looking to switch from windows DAW to a Linux DAW? Are there any tips regarding getting the plugins to play nicely?

    I would love to switch to Linux on my desktop, but the only thing holding me back is that I use FL Studio with the Arturia V collection and I feel as though it would be nightmarish to try to get such a thing working in Linux.


  • If you want to get into doing it, I found searching through a lot of note taking applications until I found something I really liked helped me remember to go do it regularly.

    For FOSS stuff a lot of people like Joplin, and I could certainly recommend it. Personally though, I really like Obsidian for its backlinking and graph view features, but it’s not open source.

    Furthermore, just carrying around a notebook and a pen everywhere you go as a habit helps a lot. I got into the habit of doing this by maintaining a personal journal for some time. For writing effective notation on paper which can easily be digitized, I would recommend looking into “bullet journaling” methods, and again, finding a notebook and pen that you really quite like, helps a lot to make the experience enjoyable and develop it as a skill.


  • I learned this lesson pretty quick when working in IT.

    It’s not always feasible to document everything as it happens, but I definitely learned to do so if I had the time and means to while I was doing the thing.

    Just started at a new company with 0 documentation, they’re super psyched that I’ve actually been writing down all their processes/procedures/configurations etc. as they explain them to me/as I work with them.




  • Linux is as good as Linux is, just as Windows is as good as Windows is and MacOS is as good as it is.

    All operating systems have their place, purpose, and use cases, so the question is subjective. Different OS’s are good or bad for different people, and different scenario’s which is why they all have a part of the market share.

    MacOS has ease of use and excellent intercompatibility with other Apple products, and Windows has boatloads of compatible software and compatibility with Microsoft’s Active Directory domains in businesses.

    What Linux has is cost effectiveness and true ownership and control.

    At the moment most people prefer ease of use for home computing, but on a long enough timeline Linux will obtain this as well, just look at what Valve did with SteamOS and the steam deck when it comes to that. Making it easy to use there is, I suspect, one of the major reasons the steam deck as a device is so well reviewed, and partly why we have seen such an increase in market share recently I suspect.

    So right now, most people probably prefer another OS because of ease of use, but at some point in the future, Linux will probably be holding all the cards. It just seems that those who develop the distributions are often tied up with other goals apart from ease of use for the common user in the contemporary, but eventually they will begin to tackle this goal as well.



  • The character roster for this game looks so generic and boring.

    https://dotesports.com/concord/news/all-concord-characters-every-freerunner-weapon-ability-and-crew-bonus

    You have the choice of:

    -Cylindrical yellow robot (arguably this is the most original and interesting design)

    -Woman with puffy sleeves

    -Woman with box on head

    -Man with goggles and winter jacket

    -Old Woman

    -Woman with pauldrons

    -Generic Woman

    -Green woman with ears

    -Man with hat

    -Pink robot

    -Mushroom

    -Green man with shit on arms

    -Woman with sphere on head

    -Blue and Red man

    -Generic Man

    -Generic Woman 2

    Like, I’ve hardly played overwatch but at least I can tell from afar what most of the characters do from looking at them. Clearly, in overwatch, Giant knight with hammer is a melee tank, clearly the ninja guy with the sword is mobile and and has some melee ability, clearly the lady with the sniper rifle is a sniper, clearly the angel is a healer, clearly, the lady with the jetpack can fly and is support, etc.

    Applying this logic to concord, the BEST I can guess is that Woman with pauldrons is a tank, otherwise the design is so ass, I really can’t even tell.

    Get a design department and/or let them do their job Sony.




  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mltoLinux Gaming@lemmy.mlJust Switch Over
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    3 months ago

    I’m not saying it’s not a good option for the majority of people, I’m saying that there are definite use cases for gas vehicles which electric vehicles cannot fulfill at this time. The majority of my trips are short and are in a city, however if I had an electric vehicle, I’d be fucked the 2 times a year I have to make a drive like that because you can’t carry batteries for an electric car like you can carry gas cans, and they won’t be building charging stations in the middle of federally protected natural reserves. Furthermore, there are definite problems with electric vehicle range in low temperatures even for travel within a city. If electric vehicles met those requirements I’d be buying one immediately, but as it stands, a gas vehicle is simply more capable and is a better value when it comes to the money as a result.


  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mltoLinux Gaming@lemmy.mlJust Switch Over
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    3 months ago

    When is the last time you drove either down an unpaved washboarded road for 30 hours one way without any charging locations, and then back, and how did it fare? Also let me know how it works at -45 C.

    I’m sure it works well for suburban/city streets, doubtful it works well for the above.



  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlSo I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?
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    3 months ago

    People like Arch because to many it feels more truly like your system than other distributions.

    It isn’t that Arch is in some way more customizable than other distros, rather it’s that if there is a package on your Arch system, its probably there because it was your choice to put it there in the first place, and so the system can feel more representative of you given it only contains the things you want or need and nothing more from the get go.


  • I’m not so sure about that. Windows despite its ads is still generally usable or at least readable, but adblockers affect almost every website, and in a much more extreme way, without which renders some websites virtually unusable. As someone else said, installing another browser is also far easier than taking backups, installing an entirely new OS, implementing your backups, and learning an entire new OS which may not readily support the software you have licensed from windows for most users.

    Users care a lot about convenience. I expect that they weigh installing and learning linux etc as less convenient than the ads in windows which is why they would not switch, but I expect when it comes to this case, they would weigh installing a different browser with adblock as much more convenient than using the internet with ads on every single website.