Since there’s been a resurgence lately of the “mastodon is mostly just for folks who use Linux” thing …
… i’m now curious about my community here
(i’m offering intentionally crude and ungranular options in this poll)
“I use Linux …”
(Please boost!)
@clive I used to dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows, until WSL* came out 🤷
And since I started making music, my workflow depends too much on Ableton and a lot of different VSTs. But seeing that Windows 10 will be retired next year, I don't know. Might be worth looking into how to migrate back.
Depends on how much you're willing to dig into vm setup. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Passing_through_other_devices
May be better to host the vm on MacOS (music people recommending it and has unix capabilities similar to linux)? Haven't used that for virtual machines though. From my MacOS use, there's a lot of differences that I didn't like, mostly wrangling things to work with automation like in Linux. Not quite Windows levels of messing around but not great.
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