Hey guys, I’m just an ordinary dev looking for something to work on. While messing around with my hobby projects, I couldn’t help but notice that under the surface, there are a lot of places that the libre desktop can be improved. I’d like to take on your suggestions on what I should seriously consider working on and helping out with.
Thanks for any comments and suggestions.
(For those wondering, I’m still working on my other stuff.)
Depends on the specific plugin. I’ve been doing music production on Linux for several years now. Back then things looked a lot worse than now. Most popular bridge solution for Windows plugins on Linux is yabridge atm. The README is well worth a closer read, cause it will answer many questions on how to get even more modern plugins to display correctly (i.e. JUCE based ones).
Ye he was using yabridge but once again it becomes a mess to maintain and he just wants to make music
I hear you. The “just wanting to make music” is a big aspect when it’s about creative work. Nothing kills one’s own flow quicker than unexpected technical issues. I certainly have questioned my choice of doing music production on Linux a couple times over the years.
But I’ve learned some lessons along the way and it’s becoming better with each year. One is updating stuff like wine and yabridge “on demand” only. Just so if things break, it breaks when one is up for troubleshooting (or at least not in a creative flow).