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I tried but there's so many things that I need to be able to turn from bad to good in just a few clicks, and that's basically irreplaceable for me rn.
I tried reaper and even if I learned it more thoroughly it would still result in 3x the time on every single process in song production, mix & master and that's unacceptable for me.
Heard a lot about bitwig and that would probably be my preferred alternative but that unfortunately still leaves the issue of third party Plugins.
I've been trying to find a way to do this properly for quite a while now but I have yet to find a way to do this that's sustainable long term.
Not trying to talk down your suggestions because I genuinely think they could work for others, just adding more information to why that's unfortunately not enough for me to switch completely.
Btw for my servers and backup notebooks I already use lots of Linux. Anything not main driver kinda works perfectly with Linux and most of all it keeps on working when I need it. In fact I suspect my hardware will give in before the os and or software will pose any issues.
Have you tried using yabridge? https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge#configuration
It's not perfect, some plugins still have issues. But most of the time it works really well. I use this with reaper and find music production is totally doable in Linux
In my distrobox bitwig set up with Wine 9.21 I am using the following with no issues
Usable with some issues
Not working at all
This is all under a unified wine prefix - o might try playing with different prefixes for different plugins and see if I can't fix some of the above or some of the QoL issues
I thought I had but I might try this again because if everything does work I'll move in a heartbeat.