thx-1138 wrote: ⤴Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:54 pm
Even more, you are in day 1, and already asking for ...
That's called efficiency. I'm not going to wait until day 100 to ask my question if I can ask at day 1
Apart from that, it was day one on thát particular machine, where windows was still running until then and switched to Linux in a hurry because that pc needed to be up and running again as quick as possible.
However, I'm running Linux systems already for around 4 years now on another machine (I'm still a n00b, though...). Have been into Ubuntu Studio, Mint, Guitarinux, Sabayon already before to test Linux for other purposes. I found some old threads on other linux forums I started about that once:
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13021
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2253413
Anyway, I like stable software, and not troubleshooting and workaround all the time... thát's what frustrating me all the time.
thx-1138 wrote: ⤴Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:54 pm
This is NOT a Microsoft Office support forum. Contact them, ask how to activate it, and what the legal requirements / restrictions for such are.
I know, but activating the license within Windows always worked perfect. Now that it is running via Wine/POL, it gives an error that it doesn't make a connection, maybe due to the reason that it's not running in that environment. Maybe wine blocks the connection or something.
Wine is the only parameter that is changed so it seemed logic to ask the question here. I asked it on the POL forums too, but without success, yet.
phd21 wrote: ⤴Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:10 pm
There are a lot of posts regarding this in this forum already. There are superb applications for photography, recording audio and music (midi), etc...
Yes, for photo editing I'm already using Gimp for over 5 years. Last couple of weeks I'm testing RAWTherapee for converting RAW files, which is currently giving excellent results. (I previously used ACDSee Pro on Windows)
Learning Inkscape too now. All these things motivate me to go further with Linux.
However, as for audio, couple of years ago I've tested most linux software available for that. None of them 100% suited my needs. LMMS did very nice for midi. But for audio I always had some problems with Jack settings. At some point I got easy recording in audacity to work, but Ardour or other programs weren't doing anything.
For some easy stuff, I had to do lots of workarounds. So after months experimenting, I went back on Windows again and found my favourite DAW: 'Reaper'.
And let it be exactly Reaper DAW that also would run via POL (I read), will test it as soon as I have more time. I want to continue with Reaper, and a good software guitar amp (Vandal) that maybe will work via POL too... At least I could give it a try
A VM would take up too much RAM on that old machine, and I don't want latency for audio recording.