Though Analog Mastering's right that there are many distros, fundamentally they all rely on the Linux kernel. Being a former software engineer, I'd like to give some hint on the technical side. To sum up, it's not impossible but manufacturers really need to be sure that the effort spent for porting their software/hardware products to Linux will be worth the effort and resources spent. Compared to OS X/Windows which have only one GUI hence only one API for software engineers to deal with. Which means that you can choose the GUI which fits your workflow the most. It's the fact that you can bundle different software as you see fit. The second part is actually considering a strength of GNU/Linux. Now let's count how many different manufacturers sell audio interfaces? That's right, far more than 2. If we take the comaparison with video, there are really 2 main manufacturers that supply video chips: nVidia and ATI.

Now this isn't such a problem, because the kernel is well documented and there are tons of guides and examples. When writing drivers for no matter what hardware you have to work with the kernel. Numbers talked.Let's think now about another solution (for 99% people it will be win10 which is perfectly understandable and reasonable) Apple makes money with only 1 product: the iphone. You can mark my words if I say mac pro and pros counts for NOTHING for apple now. Macs 5,4 + 1,65 % (even with new line of mac book pros which is not good)Īpple is a smartphone company as we know her. If you're looking at last financial results you'll see apple is no more than a smartphone company, they sell less and less ipads and even with last mac book pros only +1,5% not even 2% more sells than in 2016ħ8,2 millions of iphones sold evol 4,57 % !ġ3,1 millions of ipads - –18,73 % even the ipad is dying (They are probably working on ARM solutions) BUT if you count on Apple for making music for years you'll be quickly disappointed. It's still EASIER to make music with Mac os X for sure, that's different, because most of softs and hards are supported. Linux is NOT for everything as we don't have PT reason or Vienna under linux but nothing is established but dogmas. Nothing is established, empires grows and disappears. As ancient mac user I see Apple's destroying all the ecosystem that's why I'm looking for other solutions.

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