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I would love to swap to Linux if I could play all my games without having to dual boot etc. Steam have done wonders with the proton compatability on steamdeck so there is hope but a lot of my hardware also requires software that is windows only too.
It might be a stupid comment I'm no Linux expert, but looking forward to the steamOS coming out for PC.
The biggest thing stopping me from making the switch is that I make music in Ableton and have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on plugins and programs that will only work on windows. Including Ableton itself.
Never looked into this. Do VSTs not work on Linux ? Not withstanding the host ( ableton) of course . What about bitwig ?
Not natively but they do through Reaper For Linux. However, dongles do not. That could still be a big problem.
this is one of the reasons i just sort of inherently refuse to pay for software unless it's explicitly multi-platform. And even then i still probably wouldn't