On Thu, February 14, 2013 6:08 am, briandc wrote: > personally, I think the complaints (if referring to those coming from > outside the world of linux) are mainly about either a) lack of apps, or b) > lack of "plug-and-play" capabilities. > > As a linux user for the last few years (no programming experience either), > I > suppose it would be good to have things working "out-of-the-box" as best > as > possible. People don't like to fiddle around, even though I do.. I think to answer these questions well, one has to look at the linux audio world for what it is without any comparison to another OS. There is a trade off between flexibility and performance as compared to plug and play ease. The trick is to provide the ease while still providing the tools for the flexibility. Personally I want flexibility first. > Having more apps available would be good, of course. > The VST instruments for Windows are in the hundreds, whereas for linux > they're in the dozens. Of course, many of the VST instruments aren't > necessarily all that great, to the solution is probably not in the sheer > "number" of instruments available, but in the quality. A small number of good tools is better than a large number of bad or even unknown tools. The real question is not "do I wish I had tool x" but rather "can I make music with what I have?" and "do I wish I could do this". In other words it is not about a missing tool but missing functionality. A person who has no win/mac experience has a different set of wants I think. Many people moving from another OS, just want the experience they had on that OS to continue. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
