@sinituulia correct me if I'm wrong, but is the implication that modern tech has made computers less enjoyable?

I don't use computers any different now than I ever have. I'm always finding new/old shit to learn and enjoy tinkering with them as much as the day I first realized I didn't have to "color within the lines", so to speak.

The command line may be a bit more high tech than it once was, but it's still a command line.

@violent_grimes I assume it's everyone hating being forced to use the slop machines to do the work they used to do, but worse!

Having just switched to Linux and all open source some 10-11 months ago (I dabbled in the latter since forever) it's much much nicer like this, hate touching WIndows

@sinituulia
Ah yeah, I guess I've been out of the Microsoft (prison)system so long I didn't consider many of these answers were coming from folks still locked up 😜

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Y'all have the keys, just let yourselves out already. Linux is great, and Windows is only going to get worse. The only way that progression toward absolute control over your devices is ever going to stop is by these companies being obliterated.

And to be frank, there's no excuse anymore. Y'all used to use gaming as a reason why you couldn't switch, but the largest gaming distributor in the world now manufactures gaming devices that use not only the Linux kernel, but a Linux distribution, built using Arch of all things! And if the technical aspect is the fear, Ubuntu is **more** intuitive than windows. Just switch already! Modern tech ain't bad, you're just using bad modern tech.

@sinituulia
The audio software you are referring to is likely Pro Tools. Never had the opportunity to try it out, I used to use Ableton but haven't in years because it's closed source and unavailable on Linux. Probably the one proprietary tool I miss.

Serious audio production tools are the one area where Linux is still lacking. We need need an alternative to FL Studio and Abelton bad, Ardour and LMMS just can't compare.. DJs and beat makers would have jumped ship long ago if we had something for them. Audacity is fine if you're recording/editing standalone vocals but the UI looks like it hasn't had an upgrade since it was released in 2000.

@violent_grimes Pro Tools and Audacity are the only names of those I recognise! I never did much serious audio editing, but did get taught it. I was more of the school of "try and get clean audio with reasonable equipment and settings, so you never have to do too much to it" and these days I very much hope I don't have to edit audio at all. The last time I touched it maybe have been Reaper Audio Engine, unknown if it's still a thing these days. 😆

And never music production! TIL that that's still lagging on Linux. Seems like it shouldn't be, but I'm not a musician or producer...