Post #3511784

2026-06-29 20:43 UTC

@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.

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@bloognoo@retro.pizza 2026-06-30 01:43

@xenogon@sunny.garden @alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @ercanbrack@mastodon.online @amadeus@mstdn.social Having mulled this for a few hours, linux has daws and trackers and just about everything it needs at a userland level. What it suffers from is lack of proper driver support. I have piles of line 6 gear (that was abaondoned on mac before windows, ironically) and i can use it all as sources under linux even via usb, but i can't control or edit the devices from linux and that's the pain for me. I've had mac hardware and made music on it myself, granted 2013 era, but the mac experience always felt like you had to believe it was good before it felt good, i just hit pain point after pain point. I've been a linux everyday driver since just after that because, some driver lack aside, i have had a more fluent experience as a user, programmer and hobbyist musician. TLDR i may be an outlier but i've never considered apple the best place to go for anything. My audio experience hasn't been flawless on linux but the macos one was conaiderably worse.

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