I've been looking for a good channel strip for a bit as I've heard good things about them as a workflow. Also, aa it's an emulation of a physical device rather than a more perfect compressor etc, it adds some nice colouration that works really well for some instruments. The saturation is particularly nice and I'm surprised how much I like using the EQ.
The biggest difficulty is music production plugins. Some have a Linux version, some work via yabridge and wine (with some GUI bugs), and some don't work at all.
On top of that, my initial attempt was using Mint with all of the audio optimisations (including kernel) but it was stuttery and slow. Unfortunately, oving to another distro is not painless when you have to move all the plugins too but CachyOS has been much better so far.
You can install it without issue. There might be an issue if you set it to be your default Python 3 installation but that should be the only potential issue.
The other commenter isn't wrong but it might also be better to use Anaconda so your setup better matches what the course expects.
Yeah, I probably gave Bazzite less of a chance because I had so many issues installing it. I believe I had to wipe my other Linux partition to get it installed in the end.
Honestly, so far I have had no issues at all, I just run an update every now and then. I assume it'd be more difficult if this wasn't a gaming-specific partition, as that means I haven't installed much else.
It took me ages to get it installed as it couldn't cope with my EFI (I have multiple boot partitions). I had issues getting games running once I had it installed, but I can't remember what specifically those issues were as I spent longer fighting with Pop (WiFi driver issues).
I'm moving at the moment. Linux Mint is a good stable Windows alternative, but I wanted to separate gaming from other things so I am dual booting. I have had luck with Pop_OS! before but recently had issues with a laptop WiFi adapter, had some issues getting Bazzite working, so ended up with CachyOS, which has been really slick and easy so far.
A nice thing with Linux is how easy it is to cycle through a few distros if you have your main files on a different drive or partition, since you don't lose anything important when switching that way.
There are a few things about Kodi that might help:
There are themes thay completely change the UI, so it doesn't have to be outdated. I use Arctic: Zephyr – Reloaded and it is much better, though I did change the noises to something else.
The Jellyfin plugin works pretty seamlessly if you set up the UI correctly. I only use Kodi for Jellyfin and it acts as if it's all local files, other than the occasional syncing notice.
However, I feel you on Netflix, YouTube, etc. - it is not ideal. I ended up either logging into a separate partition or moving to a Chromecast for those things. I'd love an all-in-one solution but I haven't managed to find one that I'd be happy with.
Okay, that doesn't sound too bad then!
I've been looking for a good channel strip for a bit as I've heard good things about them as a workflow. Also, aa it's an emulation of a physical device rather than a more perfect compressor etc, it adds some nice colouration that works really well for some instruments. The saturation is particularly nice and I'm surprised how much I like using the EQ.
And yeah, iLok is awful.