On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 04:55:56PM -0400, Rob wrote: > On Sunday 11 July 2010 07:51, Andrew C wrote: > > Honestly, when will people stop going 'Oh this windows app doesn't work > > in linux, so I won't bother looking for native alternatives etc etc'. > > When the alternatives are in the same league, it'll die down some, but > people are always advocating for their chosen platform over others even > when they're equally well-suited for the task at hand. > > It's disingenuous to cast them as not bothering to look for native Linux > alternatives when the best apps we have would require pretty major rewrites > to do certain things that have become a standard part of the workflow of > people who are used to pirating software instead of using free software. > > > They're two completely different OSes, last time I checked! Heck, even > > Mac OS X has more in common with linux than windows does, and I'm not > > seeing people going 'Why can't I run Ableton on this Mac? Ugh it sucks > > big time, I won't bother with it!'. > > Um... people don't say "Why can't I run Ableton on this Mac" because you > can buy Ableton for the Mac. But Ableton is a perfect example of an app > for some of whose biggest selling points there's no viable Linux > equivalent. > > I spent a couple days bouncing my last track back and forth in Ardour, > Audacity, LMMS and Rosegarden with a pile of different plugins and hours of > reading my archive of this list and googling other people's techniques to > do the same thing that literally took a friend half an hour to do in > Ableton, and I'll continue to do so because I haven't run Windows since > 2002, have never owned a Mac, don't pirate software (I figure people who > have contributed money to the EFF will be the first ones to get their > laptops searched at airports when ACTA gets ratified) and couldn't afford > Ableton anyway. What was it you were trying to do? > > But it's quixotic at best to imagine someone who is currently taking half > an hour to do something on their existing platform to switch to a platform > that takes orders of magnitude longer to do the same thing just because the > OS sucks less and is free. Not everyone switches to Linux for music out of > some Stallmanesque ideological purity; in fact, very, very few do. Those > most likely to switch are the ones who like what challenging software > brings out in their music, like how I'm more interested in writing games > for the Atari 2600 than for modern platforms despite never having owned an > Atari until the last decade, or who have other computing priorities that > have to take precedence over music, as I do. > > Rob _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
