Well this doesn’t sound appealing! And this just speaks to what I was trying to explain to the person at the start of this thread… Linux may be growing rapidly but there’s still giant holes in the driverset etc for many tasks.

I think prob the best solution will be to perform a hard reset / clean on the laptop, remove any bloatware, keep it offline once I’ve installed necessary updates / plugins, and only have live PA software installed.

This is interesting and concerning… I don’t need a lot of plugins for live stuff, but I was definitely planning to use my Maschine!

So is that confirmed completely inoperable in Linux? No idea how I’d trigger parts without it.

Yep I definitely took it wrong, one of the problems with text only communication… No body language or audio cues! No worries.

The devs of my audio interface have definitely been asked a fair bit about Linux compatibility… But considering they’ve not even bothered bringing their new DAW to PC, it seems they’re strongly focussed on mac ecosystems only for the foreseeable.

Personally I think compatibility should be a two way street pun not intended! But unfortunately companies tend to vote with our wallets, so until Linux becomes even more established I doubt they will dedicate much if any resources to making their devices work on it. Shame.

I bought a new audio interface for live work a few months back, went for an audient id24 partly because it’s Linux compatible (although no native drivers). So I will get stuck in at some point. I started using PCs back when floppy disks were actually floppy so I’m not afraid of command line stuff!

None of the main adobe suite works on Linux either, so let’s not pretend my use case is so narrow. Literally none of the programs I use to work (Cubase, Audition, After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere, yes I can install a virtual windows machine but that completely defeats the purpose) works with Linux. And from what I gather last time I researched this, hardly any audio interfaces are Linux compatible. Most of the games I want to play also are not Linux-compatible.

Fact of the matter is, despite the large dedicated userbase (which I appreciate), it still has a giant gap where many prosumers and casual users cannot utilise it. It’s no good saying “ahhh well YOU’RE not compatible with US! No u!”. I’d love to switch and tbh am strongly considering a setup for live PA that’s Linux based, in the hope that it brings greater stability. But it’s going to be a large investment of time, and I’ll have to buy a different audio interface if I have a hope of making it work.

Linux doesn’t support my DAW or audio interface. I’m not throwing away thousands of pounds of software and equipment to use Linux.

I would happily give it a go if cubase / uad interfaces were supported.

Russia just cannot be trusted. Over and over and over again, they show this to the world.

Countries need to stop giving Russia ‘one more chance’. Treat the Russian government like the fraudulent, evil pariahs that they reveal themselves to be.

Imo a key problem we need to try and counter (as a society) is voter apathy. A lot of people just don’t care, or don’t have the energy after a long day’s work to invest in sifting through political bullshit for the nuggets of true info (understandable). Some people even take pride in their lack of interest which to me is like being proud of being stupid.

Politics affects pretty much every aspect of our lives. It drives me nuts when people whinge and whinge about the state of the country but won’t engage one iota with the process of improving things.

He even looks like a cartoon. His moustache looks like it’s made of sausages

Exactly, the reason for my concern over mandatory voting. Also it has ‘tory’ in the word and who knows, it might Derren Brown some people into voting for them!

Sometimes I wonder if voting should be mandatory, like in Australia… but forcing everyone to vote doesn’t at all solve the problem of how so much of our news media is going out of their way to mislead and manipulate the voting public. Might even make things worse.

I keep seeing people whingeing about Starmer, saying they’ll never vote for him, then you get several comments down the chain and they let slip that they don’t actually bother to vote anyway. Madness.

Don’t you see, you fool?! They needed to get brexit done!

… is it done yet? The most frustrating thing about brexit for me was, it didn’t have to be this intransigent, ludicrous, adamantium-hard brexit. They could’ve met the ‘will of the people’ and still kept some of the benefits of a close relationship with the EU. But no, they fucked it up like they’ve fucked up prisons; courts; probation; energy markets; water; environment; immigration; education; healthcare… I could go on but my fingers are getting tired.

I hoped he wouldn’t, but at the point where he was massing troops at the border it was surely a sign of what was coming.

“We’re not planning on invading, just putting all our troops here for shits and giggles!”

My fear. Polls are kinda meaningless nowadays.

I just fail to understand what sort of person views the last 14 years as anything but a series of disasters?!

It’s insane that this guy was ever allowed back near the levers of power after being caught vote rigging.

What’s to say he didn’t just learn how not to get caught next time? 5 years was too short of a ban for dodgy Rahman

Healthcare roles are exempt.

The tories are shit enough, we don’t have to make stuff up. I’m sure they’re up to other shenanigans re the NHS but this isn’t it.

Imo what their game now is all about, is filling their pockets & causing as much damage as possible on the way out to make life difficult for thr next government.

This was about to be my response. Sometimes, when a 5.1 surround mix is forced into stereo output, it causes the ‘speech’ channel to sound quieter than it should.

Try sticking to non-surrounds sources OP if you don’t have surround setup

Didn’t know they were made in Somerset, my love for them grows

If I knew you irl I would SO be making a baby hoover and hiding it next to your current hoovers

Smiling sucky boi, everytime

Yeah, incredibly harmful to his profits and chance of further peerages. Fuck off to Singapore and stay there ye blustery old cunt, no one wants your overpriced vacuum cleaners.

Henry Hoover for life