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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by brokenmachine on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:34AM (#12310441)
Unfortunately I need to stay with Windows for the moment only for Ableton Live, which is IMO the best Pro Audio/Music creation tool. I can't run it in a VM because only basic sound features work in a VM (I'm using a PCI soundcard, actually thinking about it now, maybe USB3 soundcards could work well in a VM?).

Also Photoshop is pretty much the gold standard for image editing, but I could be happy running that in a VM.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by anonbanker on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:57PM (#12321470)
Ableton Live works really well in Wine with the WineASIO plugins and JACK.

Should you want a sandboxed VM, Windows in KVM/Qemu with USB passthrough, and GPU passthrough might solve all your audio/photoshop needs.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by hrnnnnnn on Monday August 22, 2016 @10:52AM (#12336704)
Check out Bitwig, it's very similar to Ableton. That said, I can't recommend it right now as it's still quite buggy.

Worth keeping an eye on if you want to get off Windows though.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by AstralStorm on Monday August 22, 2016 @12:26PM (#12337434)
Nowhere near in functionality. It is like suggesting notepad as a replacement for the Eclipse IDE.
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