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What VSTs are you using? I run bitwig on arch and it's been awesome so far, all of my VSTs have worked, but that's not to say they will all work. Wine and yabridge do a ton of heavy lifting for the windows based VSTs to work within Linux
That's good to hear, I'm dual booting Windows 10 at the moment purely for Ableton and games but once support for it ends there's no fucking way I am installing that piece of shit Win 11.
Linux gaming is decent these days but I was stressed about just throwing away my considerable investment in VSTs to switch Linux Bitwig. If I can get even half of them working I'll be happy.
I think there are windows vst hosts like Carla and stuff it shouldn’t be to much of a problem to get most of the vsts running
That's great to hear.
I feel that for sure. Does your rig have Nvidia or amd for gpu? I got an amd build and making steam run games on linux was super crazy easy. While I haven't tested every game I own, I was able to play cyberpunk on max gpu settings without any issue. I have homies who do the same, but those with Nvidia have some issues for sure
@LSD NeuralDSP, Fabfilter, Pigments, Kontakt, Blyss and others from Kush, Kclip, sometimes Waves 14 stuff, and Valhalla. If Wine makes it work, it should all be fine.
The only sad thing would be that all the old projects are based on Ableton, but well, that's survivable :)
I can only confirm that out of what you listed, I also have and use pigments, fabfilter, and Valhalla vst with no issue! I just don't personally own the others you mentioned but I'd imagine most, if not all, of them will work.