@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com
Post #3484071
2026-06-29 20:27 UTC
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@ambientspace@cloudisland.nz 2026-06-30 05:35
@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @xenogon@sunny.garden @ercanbrack@mastodon.online @bloognoo@retro.pizza @amadeus@mstdn.social I wonder if the historical trust in MacOS for music still holds. I loved it from 1998-2007. Post 2016 has Mac and Windows feeling similar. Today’s PipeWire feels really solid for audio.
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@xenogon@sunny.garden 2026-06-29 20:43
@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @ercanbrack@mastodon.online @bloognoo@retro.pizza @amadeus@mstdn.social exactly. mac users are a very significant proportion of musicians/producers etc and I think the proportion gets higher amongst pros who spend more on gear and software. For a serious musician or studio owner the cost of the computer is insignificant compared to the cost of everything else and they'll buy what gives them the least downtime and fuss, historically that's been a mac and probably still is. How long that will last as apple enshittifies I don't know, but there's a influential demographic ripe for picking and increasingly dissatisfied with apple. OTOH I'm not sure linux as is will ever be a low fuss option for professionals. To achieve that there would need to be a serious and expensive effort to make a specific linux based OS for music.