Oh - undoubtedly. And potential revenue stream from services. None of this is for the benefit of the consumer.

Pedro's younger brother?

Great song. So many memories of so few recollections...

Oh no!

This is a good comment! I've reported to them in the past. A good reminder.

Typically banking sites for me. And a few others.

The first sites I really noticed it on were banking sites. Pretty much essential. Then I noticed more and more sites. Switching to chrome based solved it. But it really, really bothers me that I had to resort to that.

Would love to just ignore such sites, but that becomes a pretty big ask... Sigh

No idea - it was a bone fide great comment.

Mainly issues around music production. NI Maschine does not function. There's an old attempt at a driver for a previous version that sort of works for a trivial part of the functionality on an older device, though not any of the bits I actually need to use if it did work. Unsupported either way. Pretty much simply undoable. (running virtual would not work as I'd need to do a very large install of libraries and keep it up to date and in sync during transition).

Guitar hardware is unsupported (helix). Official recommended suggestions is that a) it's not supported and you're on your own, and b) maybe try to run virtually or dual boot (defeating the purpose!)

Not having much luck with audio plugins (the DAW is easy - Reaper is great). NI Access only runs via wine on the old installer (insanity to put my lot in something not only unsupported, but official unsupported and sunsetting). I've had very little luck getting essential (to me) paid plugins to run. Have tried wine /bottles /yabridge/every combination of drivers/configs I can think of. No joy. Most plugins (not all) might have an answer, but after many days' effort, I would categorize this as not doable simply. (unless one is lucky (or not unlucky) - and it's still not actually supported).

Adobe Lightroom is a non-starter. Yes, darktable exists. It's great, but not actually covering the use case that makes Adobe worth paying for - full integration across devices syncing both ways, and allowing to separately backup originals via my NAS onto Wasabi or wherever. Free software is fine, but I'm happy to pay for something like this.

Commercial support is what's needed. I am happy to pay for stuff I use (and I believe others should as well) but my core use cases are not covered, and until companies see the business case for support, very little will change. I know Kilohearts was asked about Linux support recently - they said considered it, but it's not worth their while. This is a great, newish, company that is not even burdened by technology debt constraining them to Win/Mac and it's not worth it for them...

Apple is best in class for music, but ecosystem is so closed - plus you can't easily upgrade HW! I am not a fan.

Windows works very well (yes - it's quirky, but it works well for me). I am not happy with the direction it's drifting though.

In meantime, I keep trying to make this stuff work in Linux - I actually do use it happily - but it's not workable as my main machine.

Mastodon has a feature that lets you do a timed mute for a given source (ie - you can put a 2 week mute on an annoying meme feed that's having an overzealous 'moment'). I think this could be a fantastic feature for lemmy...

"Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero...🎵🎵🎵"

That maschine.rs tool looks intriguing, though limited to mk2 (I have mkiii). It keep seems to connect it as a midi device, for use in midi mode, which is not my main use case. I may try though. If I just want a midi pad controller there are plenty of choices beyond maschine, whose actually killer feature is full edit workflow through its own interface (connected to PC, yes, but you can avoid using the computer for the most part).

Someone mentioned darktable. I am familiar with it - it's a perfectly serviceable interface/non-destructive editor, but it's the interoperability/workflow that lightroom provides that is the secret sauce (ie - all devices, edit anywhere, sync to desktop (where I keep originals and do heavier edits) and back). I'll look at darktable again now that I have an install.

At some point (with some use cases) the Linux desktop switch becomes an exercise of putting a square peg in a round hole - an uphill battle of shoehorning in workarounds. I'm game to try - pls don't read this as being dismissive - but I've gone down this path many, many, many times.

The real answer (pie in the sky) is to get commercial product manufacturers to actually support Linux. Snaps exist (software can be done even if inefficiently), but HW requires commitment from the builders.