[LAU] OT Rant: When will people stop comparing Windows/Linux apps?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Andrew C <countfuzzball at gmail.com> wrote:
> Heh, my bad. Just to clear this up, I gave Ableton as an example as I
> thought it was windows only. :/
>
> But surely if people are so 'I don't really want to learn a totally
> different app but I want it running on this OS without any bugs or kinks
> etc', then why would they even be dipping their toes into a different OS
> expecting sh*t to work as if it were windows and then go bawwwing back to
> windows?
>
> Andrew.

In my case I don't bring any of this up anymore because I just stick
with whatever native OS an app is developed for. I have multiple
machines, Linux for Ardour mainly along with lots of plugins, but
Windows XP machines for GSt and Acid Pro. All the machines are linked
with ADAT optical and it's pretty much a non-issue. I've collected 4
machines over the years as I've upgraded to newer hardware. However
these old machines are still as good and as fast as they ever were so
GSt runs on it's own machine, Acid Pro on another. I only turn them on
when I need them.

Ardour remains the center of my limited use of Linux, not because of
Ardour being in any way limited but rather just because I'm doing so
little music anymore.

There's room for all the OS's under the table. (Where my machines sit...)

- Mark