I'm also going down that rabbit hole and I think the experience is mostly about getting out of a single mainstream cultural narrative and to increase cognitive diversity. This can be achieved by either watching movies from multiple different cultures or from completely different era. I've opted for both, and I've started writing reviews on my gopher[1] about the (mostly B&W and silent) movies I've been watching. I can clearly say, some of these are so impressive that they make contemporary movies (particularly Hollywood) look like slapstick jokes with a single plot.
Arnavion got it right, but a simpler case is that you would be able to share your webcam or video streams with multiple applications at the same time, while also allowing you to insert filters or modification of that video on the fly. Similar to how you can do that with audio servers right now.
I once wrote an article about that specific idea. For me, it's a question of scale and definition. If someone doesn't agree on the existence of a "self" they won't agree on free will either.
I think this is a filter bubble thing. Considering the difference in the time of the posts, I'd say the user base that was previously commenting was mainly from the USA where Apple is king and has its own bubble. Around the world it might be different.
A lot of it has to do with the perceived elite nature of the MacOS platform for Audio/Video in comparison with other systems.. and its true, Apple have prioritized audio/video on their devices for decades - see for example, iOS versus Android audio thread priorities, which until recently were very much in Apples favour.
The trouble is, most "audio pro's" don't really have the technical chops to understand why this is the case with MacOS, nor why Linux represents a parallel advance in audio processing technology. You can do things with Linux audio that are impossible with MacOS, due to its general-purpose nature - but MacOS still provides great value to the consumer, not just professionals.
The great thing about Linux audio is that the devs pushing it forward don't have any of the constraints that the MacOS/iOS folks have to work under. This gets mis-underestimated by audio pro's, imho.
But with things like kxStudio and UbuntuStudio and Zynthian out there, this is going to change radically. I think the audio world is in for some very big upheavals in terms of Linux adoption over the next few years .. but I have all of these systems operational in my pro studio, and have poked these beasts multiple times. Linux rules for audio, and hardly anyone knows .. thats another kind of elite realm left to be explored by the curious and adventurous.
It is mostly hardware dependent. Most people don't have a clue what they are talking about. The software layer is only there to take care of buffering going towards the hardware and conversions that needs to happen such as resampling. When it comes to low-latency, the difference lies in how that buffer is handled. Otherwise you can always play in bit-perfect mode where no software changes anything in the stream. I gave a small overview of it in this section: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2021/02/07/audio-stack.ht...
So many wonderful audio devs gathering around the Zynthian (Linux-based audio DAW) waterpool. Synth developers, FX developers - everyone.
EDIT: The Zynthian project even helped Apple M1 users get software on their platform that would not, otherwise, have been an easy task .. if it weren't for Linux Audio/synth hackers, this wouldn't have happened nearly as quickly, nor as smoothly, as it did:
What I see here is a research institute in Barcelona without any reference on research market share regarding audio papers, selling Raspberry PI based stuff.
While interesting, hardly any leading number 1, top of the tops.
Whats your point? That Linux hasn't yet taken over the audio world?
Well, my point is: its happening, even if its not being done with whitepaper sniffers and marketing people involved.
There are far more audio hardware manufacturers using Linux in their products than ever before. There are also far more pro-level audio applications being developed for Linux, than ever before. It is a rapidly expanding market for Linux, and it has the potential to seriously undermine the current leaders with disruption. Once the pro-audio world catches wind of what can be done with Linux Audio, packaged in a nice box (a la Zynthian), I'll wager that within a year this situation of Linux-as-underdog in the audio world will be very, very different.
Its already happening in studios around me - I see people freaking out over the M1 move and Apple lockdown, looking for alternatives. UbuntuStudio is a godsend for those in that situation ..
EDIT: notice that I linked to the CLOSED issues for Zynthian, and that a majority of those are from 3rd-party developers getting their synths and effects products packaged for Zynthian. This represents a sea change - not to mention the fact that this work from the Linux Audio world is rapidly propagating great value to the M1 (Apple ARM) situation ..
That is the whole point of baseless statements like "Linux is the platform of choice for audio and acoustic research and was chosen by the CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics).", without any numbers to prove them.
I can be gladly proven wrong, assuming you have numbers to share, otherwise we are talking about "Year of Linux Audio".
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