RE: https://uddannelse.social/@mosgaard/116110484687878188

It’s crazy 24 people have an opinion about my blog!

Right now it’s equally split between Low latency and Free plugins, so I might just start to work on both :)

#LinuxAudio

@mosgaard Sure you already answered that, but what laptop are you using for your pro audio work?

@foobarth I bought a 500 euro test machine, a second hand Lenovo from a local guy refurbishing computers for companies.

It's a ThinkPad P15s Gen 1, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10510U (8) @ 4.90 GHz with a combined GPU (Intel UHD and NVIDIA P520) and 32 GB of ram.

But I really want to get a more quiet laptop, for when doing site specific work. For that I'll be looking at @tuxedocomputers

@foobarth I should mention I also have a beast of a Macbook with an M1 Pro processor I have been using with my UAD setup.

The Macbook is used in the theatre I'm part of for lights, so it's locked for that purpose for now. I just really want to use Linux, and I actually didn't expect I could do everything I do on my current laptop.

@mosgaard From reading your website, it seems we're sitting in the same boat more or less. My current driver is also an M1 Pro but i really want to get rid of #BigTech as far as possible.

I'm currently considering a recent Lenovo IdeaPad with a Ryzen AI CPU, heard lots of good things regarding Linux support.

@foobarth getting rid of Big Tech has been a big driver for me - and of course autonomy of data. Getting an OS where I don't need a user in a centralized network, to be able to just use my computer.

For a long time I wasn't really sure it would work in the end, but the seup I have now with CachyOS and Bitwig has suprised me so much. It really is a question of doing it, and seing everything I can't do as creative input.

@mosgaard #CachyOS also for me, but my DAW of choice has been #Reaper for years. Being a drummer, the last hurdle to master is Superior Drummer and some other paid VSTs. That's why I'm very much looking forward to your future blog posts 🙂

@foobarth there is a lot of Reaper users on Linux, so you actually have quite the forum sharing DAW specific information. So Reaper should be no issue.

I haven't tried Superior Drummer, and don't have any of the Toontrack plugins, so I'm afraid I don't know if they can run. But I have seen forum posts mentioning SD3 running in Wine, so there is hope :)