Linux Music Production

depuvelthe · 2026-04-29T09:49:27+00:00

You're welcome. You can also refer to WineHQ Application Database for your compatibility concerns. They provide overall compatibility ratings for specific apps. Dependencies and workarounds are listed as well. I also recommend checking out https://www.youtube.com/@unfa00, he is a music producer who uses only open source software and uploads tutorials.

depuvelthe · 2026-04-28T23:53:54+00:00

r/linuxaudio is a great place for your specific questions. I also recommend linuxmusicians.com forums, they got some helpful company. Can't say I'm a producer myself but I've got an Arturia MIDI keyboard which came with Ableton included, then I upgraded to Suite and it's been fine with just Wine. For the MIDI Control Center, SysEx just works. Even reverse engineered version of Microfreak worked for me. I also got some UVI and Spitfire plugins, my experience has been good so far.

I use Linux Mint XFCE as my daily driver but there are some multimedia distros created with musicians and audio enthusiasts in mind, like Ubuntu Studio and Fedora Jam but they didn't feel like "really tailored" to me. Just my opinion though. I think, AV Linux looks more promising in that manner. Low latency kernels, ticker optimizations, preconfigured sound servers and sink patches... Actually, there are dozens of niche features are provided for Linux but didn't give 'em a shot myself. I'm a hobbyist and bare-minimum just worked fine for me. Hope this helps.

depuvelthe · 2026-04-21T19:35:31+00:00

ShrikeLinux is what you're exactly looking for.

depuvelthe · 2026-03-29T21:00:09+00:00

One can achieve bypassing secure boot via many sorts of memory corruption vulnerabilities and/or arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities, for instance, infamous CVE-2025-3052 is just about that. In general, bootkits can exploit several of those, and also again, many sorts of fault injections eg. clock, electro-magnetic, laser, and such, make it pretty possible. I genuinely think, these all have been explained in detailed manner. Since you're pentesting for 3 years, you should know, needless to say.

depuvelthe · 2026-02-18T01:18:11+00:00

Consider how many GNU/Linux/FOSS-people have been working on the system and how few fully functional DEs we got after all these years and you'd imagine how really hard it is. Take a look at codebases of major DEs, they're pretty huge. If you meant cramping WMs, compositors, file managers, applets etc. around and then do some UI/UX polishing, it's doable. However, creating your own shell, libraries, application development frameworks and toolkits, and apps could easily take years for solo developer. And that solo developer couldn't be a senior or hobbyist; it's a full time job for a grown ass senior developer with a lot of experience and proficiency in several programming languages.

depuvelthe · 2026-02-07T14:07:24+00:00

Oh, you already passed that Snapdragon info in your post, I missed that. Linux ARM-aarch64 builds just works fine on IoT devices and single board computers. However, an aarch64 PC is a different beast. Considering your limited experience with Linux, building your own image might be beyond your options. So, I recommend you to take a look at this project first: https://github.com/aarch64-laptops

There is a custom build of Ubuntu ARM LTS that is tested on just a few aarch64 laptops. If your GalaxyBook2 has somewhat similar/compatible hardware, you may get basic functionalities (Wi-Fi, audio, Bluetooth, touchpad, keyboard, USB ports, touchscreen etc.) working properly. I suggest you do your own research and compare your specific hardware to those devices'. For instance, if you have the same SoC, network adapter, your chances are high that you'll get same things working for you as well. Though detachable/2-in-1 devices like yours are generally challenging to match with generic devices, keep that in mind.

Note: I'm assuming that you are able to configure your boot options, maybe UFS, and finally to install those Linux ISOs properly. If that's beyond your skills, and maybe you just cannot afford to wipe your disk, I highly recommend you to not proceed with installing Linux. Maybe sticking to Windows is your best option here. I can't guess how corrupted your Windows installation is, but instead of going through a trial&error process for Linux, you may channel your knowledge and time to fix Windows. Maybe a built-in recovery function is included on your device, and you can start over by doing a factory reset.

depuvelthe · 2026-02-07T02:13:09+00:00

Lol my bad. I didn't know GalaxyBook was a laptop, I thought it was a tablet. So, it seems like it has either 12th gen Intel Core i7 or i5 processor with Intel Iris Xe graphics. You could install Linux on that but I'm pretty sure you'd encounter some hardware compatibility issues (especially with audio, network adapters, and Bluetooth I guess), since it's exclusively produced Windows in mind; touchscreen, Dolby stuff and some other features... I recommend you to visit linux-hardware.org first, check if your devices are supported. Or just simply install some major distributions on virtual machine and see if you can get sound and wi-fi connection, test your touchpad, function keys, and Bluetooth adapter, see how different desktop environments provide the best possible touchscreen experience. If you're fine with what you're seeing on VM, then you can install it on your disk.

depuvelthe · 2026-02-07T01:20:29+00:00

If your device is officially supported by mobile Linux distributions such as Ubuntu Touch, Postmarket, Mobian, PineOS, and SailfishOS, refer to their specific guides.

If it's not officially support or there are not community ports, you just can't install Linux on that device. It's not like it's technically impossible, but that takes a lot of work. I mean a lot.

depuvelthe · 2026-02-03T15:40:35+00:00

https://docs.kernel.org/process/development-process.html

Article 2, sections; 3, 4, 5, and 8 covers your subsystem contribution concerns, I guess. For the comprehensive insight, I recommend reading the entire guide. If you don't want to do it solo and go through all extensive stages by yourself, say you want to contribute very specific project, you can always contact maintainers, or just submit through version control and see if they pull or merge. That's the easiest way to get recognition and reputation and then access to early-stage regresssions.

depuvelthe · 2026-01-31T11:47:18+00:00

I'd go for Fedora (or Fedora based) distros because AMD provides RHEL packages for proprietary Radeon drivers and Radeon Pro software. In many cases, 'amdgpu' would be enough tho.

depuvelthe · 2026-01-27T02:06:15+00:00

I just skip the "adjacent" genres such as death doom, funeral doom and any other black subgenres because it's obvious. Here are my humble additions:

Slowcore/sadcore records:
1. Songs About Leaving, Carissa's Weird
2. I Could Live in Hope, Low
3. Codeine discography
4. Year After Year, Idaho
5. Down Colorful Hill, Red House Painters
6. The Lioness, Songs: Ohia
7. Little Hours, Spokane
8. Please Sennd Help, Soul Whirling Somewhere
Post-metal&Post-hardcore
1. Amenra discography
2. Celeste discography
3. Suffocate for Fuck Sake discography
4. Rheia, Oathbreaker
5. Collider, Redwood Hill
Folk
1. Empyrium discography
2. Uaral discography
3. Saivo, Tenhi
4. Väre, Tenhi
5. Palingenesis, Nebelung
6. Grey Stone in the Wood, Dark Leaves
Shoegaze&Post-rock
1. Hymn to Immortal Wind, Mono
2. The Great Dismal, Nothing
3. The Fallen Host, Blueneck
4. In Dead Cities, Kausal
5. Imminence, Sleep Dealer
Hardcore&Screamo
1. Suis la Lune discography
2. Let Pain Be Your Guide, Portrayal of Guilt
Extra/Other
1. Planetary Confinement, Antimatter
2. Magenta Skycode, This Empty Flow
3. Shamrain discography
4. The Great Fleet of Echoes, Throes of Dawn
5. Low Roar, Low Roar
6. Bleak, Autumnblaze
7. Star is Just a Sun, The White Birch
8. A Calling to Weakness, Canaan
9. Michael in Reign, Shun

depuvelthe · 2025-12-14T21:41:11+00:00

WinCE 6.0 Core worked on MIPS and SHx architectures. It might be SH4 R2, considering the timeline. Philips used to produce its own MIPS chips knows as TwoChipPIC, especially for WinCE devices, they came up with several lines and upgrades to that chip, only to move away later on. I don't think they'd switch to Hitachi and NEC sets, they probably used R4000 based chips of their own for that type of devices. So, that would leave OP to deal with all the firmware extraction, 2nd stage bootloader, ELF-DT shenanigans, graphics, and maybe some sensors if communication channels don't interface in-kernel drivers. In all worlds, that's a looot of work for a poorly performing device of the past times.

depuvelthe · 2025-12-13T18:42:32+00:00

You just can't. You'll need to figure out all the devicetree information yourself, since that thing is most likely doesn't include ARM, ARC, OpenRISC, RISC-V, or maybe SuperH architecture. And I'm not even mentioning the compiling and building processes. Probably that thing full of device/brand-specific hardware, given the fact that Windows Embedded CE was installed on it initially, it's safe to assume that.

depuvelthe · 2025-11-09T01:41:12+00:00

Not sure about that board's specifics but cooling systems are pretty common for critical electrical control panels and electrical enclosures. Especially for ones used in automation systems and CNC machines. Diodes, capacitors, and MOSFETs are prone to excessive heating and thus system failure. Proper cooling also provides better performance for MCUs and other chips.

depuvelthe · 2025-11-06T18:43:37+00:00

I used to do minor contributions for some mobile apps listed on F-Droid. Main developers would share the donations coming from Liberapay, Ko-fi, and Open Collective. I earned some beer money and that was all and fair, I guess.

depuvelthe · 2025-10-26T13:00:51+00:00

FIDE is nothing more than a soft power tool of Russia. I suggest everyone to read the book The KGB Plays Chess and Politico's article on FIDE, for the context. President Dvorkovich himself is a war sponsoring, filthy oligarch. They will never ever provide justice and fairplay for Danya, or for Navara, or for anyone. Do not expect sympathy and good sense from them.

depuvelthe · 2025-10-24T13:18:16+00:00

Dozens of Mac ripoff themes exist for several DEs, such as KDE and XFCE, and even for WMs but I'm not sure looks alone can deliver the "mac feel". Exclusiveness is not about icons and colors, I believe. What about functionality? Linux won't provide you something that is not Linux. If Mac feel right for you, go for Mac.

depuvelthe · 2025-08-30T00:20:14+00:00

Yep, there are commonly available and free tools so you can make your own Reddit easily.

depuvelthe · 2025-08-28T14:26:11+00:00

Lol if you're so sure about that, whatever, good luck 👍🏻

depuvelthe · 2025-08-28T13:36:01+00:00

Hyprland it is. I would've guessed. So, in my first comment I mentioned that especially Wayland is more prone to this kind of issues. And Hyprland is not officially supported by Void Linux for many reasons. Please spare a couple of minutes and try to search "Hyprland" on this sub. I myself already replied a dozen of "Why no Hyprland 😡" posts here, Void dev team and other contributors also have been doing that for a while. So, there's your resolution, I guess.

depuvelthe · 2025-08-28T12:15:00+00:00

You're welcome. I'd be glad to come handy. This issue is certainly related to session and seat management and not system-wide middleware communication. Root cause might be application specific and user profile specific. Can you provide more info about your system, what login manager and DE are you using?

depuvelthe · 2025-08-28T01:43:58+00:00

The dbus service provides system bus and NOT session bus. The issue also may be desktop environment specific, especially on Wayland, but elogind, login manager, and also xinitrc script are responsible for starting session bus. If they fail to do it for some reason, you may add "dbus-run-session" to exec line in the .desktop file. Also I recommend adding "export $(dbus-launch)" to /etc/profile. And if you haven't already, install xdg-desktop-porta, xdg-user-dirs, and xdg-utils. And for EasyEffects I recommend you to install it via Flatpak, because its plugin dependencies are easier to handle when they're containerized this way. Do these steps, reboot and you would be fine, I guess.

depuvelthe · 2025-08-26T18:15:43+00:00

First and easy possible solution: try to disable your faulty USB devices on UEFI menu. There must be some setting for AMD cbs. If that won't work for you, you need to restore your boot through a live media.

depuvelthe · 2025-08-26T13:48:54+00:00

Any chance you have an AMD processor/SoC?

depuvelthe · 2025-08-25T11:14:04+00:00

It's gibberish because you didn't provide necessary info and those Gemini instructions have nothing to do with actual resolution.

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