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It can come down to one program that doesn't have a good alternative on another OS, my version of that are the DAWs / music production tools I know and love. Wine solves a lot of this (but not all) for Windows programs, the macOS equivalent Darling[0] seems to still has some way to go until GUI programs are reliably supported.

[0] https://github.com/darlinghq/darling

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If you’re open to switching to Reaper, it’s my understanding that their Linux version is coming along well. I’ve read good things about it plus LinVST. Of course, I’m also unwilling to test this myself and I’ll probably run MacOS until the day I stop making music.

I use Renoise and Ardour as my DAWs on Linux.

Bitwig (which has an Ableton-like interface, and was made by Ableton developers) is also available for Linux.

Reaper on Linux is really quite impressive IMO

Bitwig is the best Linux DAW in my experience, although it isn't FOSS. Running third party VSTs is also much more of a pain if even possible. I'm also stuck with Logic... for now at least.

It guess it depends a lot on personal preferences and expectations, but I'm very content with my Bitwig setup on Linux. There are obviously a lot less native third party VST plugins available on Linux, so if you already own lots of them and want to make a switch that could be a problem, but if you're just starting out, there's more than enough available:

https://www.kvraudio.com/plugins/linux/vst-plugins

yeh plugins ended up being a big thing for me, but in the end I decided I'd rather be free to use whatever OS I want to use rather than keep valhalla shimmer.

Can be a bit of a pain migrating from windows though if you have loads of previous projects, all expecting to find a specific vst in a specific place. Thats why I'm dual booting windows for now.

IIRC Bitwig was founded by ex-Ableton developers. I haven't tried it yet, but that's good pedigree.

You can also dualboot a linux distro and windows

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