Nick F5d ago

I wrote a blog post last week, but then immediately went off to Leeds for a bit, and then got ill, so forgot to post it. Until now!

It's about a fairly niche topic: switching to Linux. Not sure whether there's anyone on Mastodon who's interested in that sort of thing, but hey.

https://nickautomatic.xyz/posts/my-year-of-linux/

My Year of Linux

My personal home page on the internet

Show threadNick F5d ago
It's mostly just a bunch of notes about how I've found switching to Linux Mint, problems I ran into, things that helped, etc.
Show threadChris Lowis4d ago
@nickautomatic I read this, probably via your RSS feed. It's great! Also linuxing for a few months now.
Show threadNick F4d ago
@chrislowis Thanks Chris! Glad it was of interest. Are you on Mint too, or did you go with something else?
Show threadChris Lowis4d ago
@nickautomatic Ubuntu. But I'm considering switching to straight Debian. Not sure I want more AI in my life 😂
Show threadNick F

@chrislowis Haha, I know the feeling. I'd be interested to hear how you get on if you do switch.

Have you been doing anything musical on Linux yet? Moving across all my VSTs (and seeing if I can run Ableton Live via Bottles/WINE) is still on my "to do" list...

May 15 at 1:02pmWeb
Show threadChris Lowis1d ago
@nickautomatic no, not really. SuperCollider works fine, and Reaper too. I tend not to do too much with DAWs and VSTs, I quite like my iPad for some music software and then a bit of hardware - mostly recording to a stereo pair rather than doing any multitracking. Bigwig looks interesting though and has a native Linux build.