Comment by y-c-o-m-b
3 months ago
I so badly want to jump ship entirely, but there's several things holding me back. I do music production as a hobby and Ableton Live doesn't play nice with Linux. In fact it seems anything that is resource intensive without native linux support has some issues. I'm also an MS stack developer, so things like Visual Studio Pro aren't available (although I've been using Cursor IDE more and more these days). Lastly I have some games acquired through "the high seas" in which a work-around doesn't exist for compatibility.
Take a look at Bitwig. Developed by a team of ex-Ableton devs, it is the DAW-Live-should-have-become even at version 5.3, and version 6, which is in beta right now, will blow Ableton out of water. As soon as they add a microtonally aware piano roll like in Live 12, I'll have no reason to fire up Live other than to revisit old projects.
And yes it runs on Linux.
(Although truth be told, the CPU usage is somewhat higher on Linux than on Windows, even with low-latency kernel. Multimedia just doesn't quite shine on Linux yet.)
Switch to Rider. It takes a second to adjust, but you'll end up with a better understanding of dotnet in general.
re. Games, are you sure proton won't work? I've got ~1400 games on steam, and only a handful have serious issues with proton.
Rider is pretty solid.
I did F# for years in Visual Studio Pro, and I feel like getting used to Rider on Mac took about twenty minutes.