<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>> Counter-counter question: why not try and run MS Office, Outlook,<br>> etc. under Linux ? More choice for the user !</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Yep, that would be pretty cool. Difficult, but cool. Does that mean it's not worth putting effort into?<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">> Any anyway, of those 'tons' maybe 1% provides 'quality', the rest<br>> isn't any better than what we already have or could have natively.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Reeeeaaallly debatable...<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Michael</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Michael Bechard <gothmagog@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org" <linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 7, 2013 6:06 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [LAD] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?<br> </font> </div> <br>
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 03:47:44PM -0800, Michael Bechard wrote:<br> <br>> I'll counter your question with another one; regardless of a<br>> user's workflow, why *wouldn't* we, as LAD's, want to enable<br>> as many different kinds of plugins to work on Linux as possible?<br>> From a user's perspective, having more choice is just better,<br>> and there are *tons* of quality DSP tools out there in the VST<br>> format; there's absolutely no down side.<br><br>Counter-counter question: why not try and run MS Office, Outlook,<br>etc. under Linux ? More choice for the user !<br><br>Those 'tons' of VST plugins are native Windows ones, they require<br>an emulated Windows environment just as e.g. Outlook would.<br>Much easier to use them under Windows, if you really want them.<br>Any anyway, of those 'tons' maybe 1% provides 'quality', the rest<br>isn't any better than what we already have or could have natively.<br><br>Ciao,<br><br>--
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