okay shall i try to set up Bitwig on Linux next

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

ok im in. zero plugins lets go

[brhfl@digipres.club]

@ahihi super irritating! and on windows at least, firmware updates can result in a ‘new machine’, compounding the issue ‍

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

@brhfl oh that is extra bad indeed

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

i should dig up an audio interface

[inscript@merveilles.town]

@ahihi it’s honestly great for that. feels really nice a self contained environment.

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

@inscript i have mixed feelings about that. but my top plugin (Reason Rack) is probably not happening on Linux and i dont feel like configuring more stuff today anyway so this shall do for now

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

i found some stuff. couch studio go

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

apparently i can not drag audio files into the arranger. what

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

searching on the Bitwig discord, people are saying drag n drop works only on GNOME

come on!!!!!

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

and possibly also if you run X. sigh

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

i understand it is a transitional time in the world of window management but this does feel like the type of thing that should just work since the 90s at the latest

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

note: especially since we are talking about software one pays decent money for

[alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com]

@ahihi yeah, I have found that pretty wild. I do really like bitwig in general though.

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

@alisynthesis me too, on macOS it is very usable despite occasional glitches (usually fixed by restarting the app).

but when literally the first thing i try to do with it here fails it feels like the Linux support is an afterthought

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

can i run X in parallel with Wayland. perchance

[flockofnazguls@mastodon.social]

@ahihi It's pretty easy to switch between X11 and Wayland sessions at the login screen.

Honestly I decided to just stick with X11 for everything. I used Wayland for a while and it felt indistinguishable from X11 in terms of experience -- except for more freezes on my laptop when using Wayland.

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

@flockofnazguls i need fractional scaling so X-only isnt really an option. having to log out to switch is also a pain so i am trying to set up X to run on another TTY

[flockofnazguls@mastodon.social]

@ahihi Ahhhhhhh yeah.

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

i have started xfce into an unresponsive black screen 🧅

[ahihi@anticapitalist.party]

maybe a simple wm would work better