Re: [LAU] and now, what do you think RULES about Linux audio ?

I like the community and the helpfulness most. If some stereotyping is allowed, Linux usually attracts enthusiastic technically capable users, which is very good. Most people are really helpful, and there's just a big satisfactory difference to be able to interact with whoever made the application you're using. I'm also pretty fond of trying to solve technical issues despite my lack of programmer background. Now, this stuff works for ME. I've managed to set myself up with a workflow that's working for my purposes. However, other people might be less inclined to deal with the technical stuff, and just want to fairly easily be able to make some music on a open source and free platform. I hope that some day we can cater to them too. I do however mostly think this lies on us users who're active in the community. It's not so much that certain tools aren't around, or are unusable (exception possibly being something like Ableton), I think it's mostly a lack of documentation and tutorials that's the issue. And that documentation/tutorials needs to be done by users, from a user perspective, and not a developer perspective. We just need to show users what can be done, and give them the general tools and skills to just get going and doing what they want. It's not like windows/mac-musical software is incredibly intuitive, the reason it's generally more accessible is the fact that so many people use it and put up tutorials. Oh, this might've been OT. Sorry about that. =/ On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:39 AM, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote: