Never. There is not "the" Linux. But over 600 different distributions. And the range goes from one man hobby teams up to professionals like Red Hat or Ubuntu's Canonical. (I have some problems to call the amateurs from Ubuntu professionals though. One does simply not deprecate important dependencies with a point upgrade. And that's ways not the only pranks they played with me over the years) Linux distros cannot compete with Windows or Mac, they are busy to compete with itself already. And this will never change, since this is the spirit of open source. You are unhappy? Change it! No compromises needed, we do it our way. In good and in bad."how long will it need to really see a fully competitive music production environment not depending on one or a very small number of companies in Linux?"
Which then leads to dozens of package managers, dozens of desktop solutions, a in big parts cruel usability, the everlasting dependency problems, lack of manpower, and so on. And this all, the lack of standards, usability and reliability, makes the life too hard for (not only) commercial developers. Which is the reason why there is so few software for desktop linux available. Which is then the reason why musicians usually avoid Linux. No NI Kontakt means already cutting off half of the available sample based instruments.
When your goal is to make music in the first place, when your job is the music, then windows or mac is the way to go. That's what the majority of musicians uses, that's where the daws and the instruments and the community lives in case you need help.
When your goal is to live the ideal, when your job is Linux, and not so much to get out the most of the available equipment and software, then you could use Reaper for example. Which is also available for Linux. And there are in fact quite a few happy users to find. That way at least the daw is somehow state of the art.
It's all about what limits you want to accept. In the end is allowed what works.
Statistics: Posted by Tiles — Wed Jul 31, 2024 7:23 am