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Nielso

@davidrevoy

„We were told that our use was niche, our needs were diminished.“

I wasn't told that but it is how I feel about serious audio/video production on Linux.

Reaching to the point where some folks advise you to use ffmpeg for video editing.

Also the reason why I'm sort of stuck with Kubuntu 18.04 + kxStudio.

Me say: „I need X in order to do my work”
The say: „You cannot want to use X, use $nonsenseReplacement instead”

– heard that countless times.

I'd heavily need an update, but so many things might not work any more.

I really fear the breaking of my fragile construction for using audio plugins that are Windows binaries („you cannot want this”)… video editing software relying on interfaces to hardware working well in X11 (Wayland? No idea) and then there's Pipewire as new audio system with many great ideas, but does it replace Jack successfully for my hardware (expensive gear!)?

I feel like nobody can tell. It's probably easier to use the same software on OSX, after 20 years of Linux only.

30 May at 20:15 | Wall-to-wall | Open on digitalcourage.social
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David Revoy

@nielso 😩 Oh yes, I understand your feedback really well. Courage!

30 May at 21:33 | Open on framapiaf.org
Elias Probst

@nielso I wish the community would get an initiative across various projects up and running where they pick a random user's special use-case (like yours) and try to fix as many of the issues there are as possible and by solving those, raise the tide for all other users in a similar place as well.

@davidrevoy

30 May at 22:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Nielso

@eliasp @davidrevoy

Well, Linux in a way is democratic. What isn't used by many people isn't supported that well. This was more or less okay in the past, you could always try to compile stuff yourself and tweak things.

But with Wayland and Pipewire we're facing kinf of a new situation, in which central infrastructure of distros gets replaced by things not yet suitable for special needs.

Furthermore, putting more and more tings into snap packages doesn't make it better. Snap doesn't allow accessing files outside $HOME, but who would but 6TB of video footage into their $HOME? (my situation)

Even worse, I use an X11 graphical terminal. Dunno if that will be supported in the future.

First time in my Linux life I will have to set up a "development system" with a recent distro and switch over after I got to work everything.

I can do it. But it's not my main business, it keeps me from doing other things.

@eliasp @davidrevoy

Well, Linux in a way is democratic. What isn't used by many people isn't supported that well. This was more or less okay in the past, you could always try to compile stuff yourself and tweak things.

But with Wayland and Pipewire we're facing kinf of a new situation, in which central infrastructure of distros gets replaced by things not yet suitable for special needs.

31 May at 6:43 | Open on digitalcourage.social
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