![]() ![]() ![]() I only know of one animation studio/FX that uses linux (they use openSUSE) as their main platform but even they have to use windows machines for certain tasks. To me Linux is actually the most casual of the operating systems, good for home computers bad for workstations. It used to be that the system itself was better on linux but Windows and Mac are just as good these days and Linux’s crippling weakpoint is that big commercial developers like Adobe don’t release their products for it so it can not be used for professional work, at least in my industry. Some of autodesk’s 3D applications have linux builds and you can use Nuke of compositing, but there is no decent programs for 2D (this is the only one I actually need), vector, 3d sculpting, video editing, layout or motion graphics. The best I could do was to get a 10 year old version of Photoshop 7.0 running over wine but it still lacked a few features. Professionally I’m a computer graphics artist and I have finally switched back to Windows a few months ago after years of struggling with Gimp, Blender and their ilk trying to do graphics on linux… it just doesn’t work. Sometimes things stop working after an updateīut honestly music production is one of Linux’s strong points. ![]() Doesn’t run other useful audio programs besides Renoise and Audacity.Not many audio plugins, the ones that exist are useless or of low quality.I’ve used Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio and openSUSE and gotten the realtime kernel to work on both of the ubuntus, however since it slows down casual use of the computer and doesn’t give any audible advantages unless you use a lot of plug-ins and virtual instruments (I use none) I disabled it again. I have actually found that a few windows programs run better via wine than natively. But I must say that I really love Jack and always run Renoise through it, and if you’re into old trackers and software a lot of them run superb via emulators(dos, windows 3.11 - 2000, amiga, videogame consoles). I make all my music on Linux and it works pretty well, but I think that after the release of windows 7 there aren’t any advantages any more besides the cost. ![]()
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