Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup

Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by promiseofbeans on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:26AM (#43855834)

If you're happy to dip your toes into another DAW, Reaper has excellent first-class Linux support, works with all your plugins, and has a 60 day trial* for you to get used to it.

* The free trial is enforced as heavily as WinRAR's, and it's pretty cheap (~$60) to buy a licence if the nag screen makes you feel bad enough

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by rafaelmn on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:10AM (#43856163)

I tried that first but had trouble getting it to launch so I decided might as well goo with the OSS option. Boy was I in for a fun ride with getting the whole jackd and audio subsystems running.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by richrichardsson on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:01AM (#43856091)

Alternatively Bitwig has Linux support and wouldn't be such a big jump.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by v1ne on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:35AM (#43866803)

The problem is not only the DAW support, but the support of low-latency audio interfaces in Linux. Audio interface makers rarely create a Linux driver, and a low-latency setup on Linux is its own hell, with real-time kernel patches. On MacOS and Windows, it works out of the box.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by SSLy on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:26AM (#43869450)

rt patches are upstream since about a year ago. You might need to swap to rt Kconfig, sure, but not patches.

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