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On Thu, February 14, 2013 6:08 am, briandc wrote:
> personally, I think the complaints (if referring to those coming from

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> outside the world of linux) are mainly about either a) lack of apps, or b)

> lack of "plug-and-play" capabilities.

>

> As a linux user for the last few years (no programming experience either),

> I

> suppose it would be good to have things working "out-of-the-box" as best

> as

> possible. People don't like to fiddle around, even though I do..

I think to answer these questions well, one has to look at the linux audio

world for what it is without any comparison to another OS. There is a

trade off between flexibility and performance as compared to plug and play

ease. The trick is to provide the ease while still providing the tools for

the flexibility. Personally I want flexibility first.
> Having more apps available would be good, of course.

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> The VST instruments for Windows are in the hundreds, whereas for linux

> they're in the dozens.  Of course, many of the VST instruments aren't

> necessarily all that great, to the solution is probably not in the sheer

> "number" of instruments available, but in the quality.

A small number of good tools is better than a large number of bad or even

unknown tools. The real question is not "do I wish I had tool x" but

rather "can I make music with what I have?" and "do I wish I could do

this". In other words it is not about a missing tool but missing

functionality.
A person who has no win/mac experience has a different set of wants I think.
Many people moving from another OS, just want the experience they had on

that OS to continue.
--

Len Ovens

www.OvenWerks.net
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