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  • Lol - I was parodying your comment, actually 🙂. Not sure if fingerprint is standard api, but I suspect there is some proprietary stuff going on.

    In the end it’s not about blaming Linux, it’s about getting adoption to a critical mass where commercial entities can realize a business case to support. Then the ecosystem will thrive.

    Linux (and BSD for router workload) absolutely owns the server world. Even MS let’s you run SQL Server on Linux). The desktop isn’t there yet wrt adoption, but it’s growing. Things like fingerprint sensors are definitely in the desktop (closer to end user) world and if it’s the business use case that is the area of most growth, as I suspect it is (in India, especially) then I think these sorts of modules have higher likelihood of being adopted.


  • Exactly! But I really, really hope that the growing share in India and other places starts to catalyze commercial development.

    Immutable packages like flatpak (or whatever is your format of choice) makes the software side way, way easier. It’ll take a bit more convincing to get HW makers to dive in though.

    It’s no joke making supported software let alone HW for multiple flavours sites of kernel, architecture.

    It’s a lot better than 25 years ago when I used as a daily driver, but we’re just not quite there yet. I keep trying!






  • Ah yes - Native Instruments. It’s both HW and SW. I should have been more clear. No joy on Ubuntu - the issue is the HW driver. The HW is simply unsupported. (someone wrote a driver to partially allow midi mode on an older version of the HW, but it’s completely hobbled and, I fear, makes my point more loudly than I could if it didn’t exist. FWIW, only the older Native Instruments installers will run under wine - the new ones leverage certain features of windows that apparently will never be supported by wine, so I have little confidence in wine-based solutions for anything I need to depend on going forward.

    Apple makes great computers, but… I can’t stand them. You’re in a walled proprietary garden and it drives me bonkers. I also have similar suspicions wrt their privacy practices.

    Windows, for me, works well enough (I can get it to do everything I need) but I have grave concerns about privacy and a really, really don’t like their AI direction. It’s the opposite of what I want in a computer.

    I’ve considered going full Linux as hypervisor with Windows as guest, but it’s really not that easy to actually use beyond a theoretical proof of concept once you start managing large sound libraries.

    Would like to get back to Linux as daily driver as I did years ago and actually do run it on a few old laptops. (I wish there was a better email client - the only one that seems to successfully support oauth2 is thunderbird, and it’s more than a bit unwieldy for large mailboxes (especially with its circa 1997 design aesthetic…)

    Anyway - I really, really want to find a way to make a leap to Linux (again) but it’s currently not feasible, no matter how hard I bang my head against that particular wall…


  • Adobe lightroom (with its multi-device editing and catalogue management - even when only using its cloud for smart previews).

    Hardware support for music. NI Maschine is a non-starter. Most other devices are, at best, a ‘hope it works’ but are most definitely unsupported.

    Music software. You can hack your way into getting a lot of your paid modules to work, but it is certainly not supported.

    Wine is ‘fun’(?), but it’s a game of whack-a-mole chasing windows’ tail and will never allow everything to run. Either way it’s not 'supported.

    Businesses any any size tend to eschew SW/HW that doesn’t have formal support. (things like RHEL are most definitely supported as servers and orgs certainly leverage it).

    I keep installing Linux hoping I can get a sufficient amount stuff to work “well enough” to move on from windows but it’s just not to be (yet). Hope it changes, but it’ll require buy-in from commercial product developers. I hope as Linux continues to grow a foothold in desktop installs, a critical mass will be reached, commercial devs take notice and it’ll be easier to switch.

    For now, I’m stuck with Windows and WSL. (But I am not happy with Windows’ direction).