At least the fedi is not a echo chamber and we have a diverse group of people. My main gripe is people hardly venture outside of anime cooming and politics. For a while there was a Warhammer 40k instance and that was a breathe of fresh air. I'd like to see a car racing instance, a hunting and fishing instance, a music producers instance, there is so much more to life than arguing politics or jerking it to 8000 year old lolis.
TL:DR I got sick of constantly sinking time into getting what should be normal standard things working properly. I want to have a life. I love old Linux for having basically solved that problem but I hate new wave Linux for trying to reintroduce it.
I think the breakdown in my frustration happened long ago when the Arch Linux install process began to become unrecognizable after a couple of years. Also at what point do people start putting a value on their free time vs "just trust me bro and follow this lengthy github guide to get your trivial feature working that was working out of the box years before".
I'm not denying that people can make content, art, music, etc with Linux. My problem with the Linux community at large is the constant reinventing of the wheel and the rampant activism which is making Linux go backwards to nerd goo code hell when it was on track to being something special.
And don't get me wrong, I like Linux, I use Linux daily, Linux literally handles my internet routing in my apartment. But I'm not gonna sugarcoat and lie about how out of touch the average desktop Linux user is about their software stack being an unstable niche thing that is at the whims of all sorts of unstable lunatics in the development world.
Outside of the server space (no denying that Linux makes for great web servers) I'm not seeing anybody accomplish anything with desktop Linux. Most people that I know that main Linux only are in a constant spiral of customizing, reinstalling and fixing their setup while creating or producing nothing. I only know of 2 successful YouTube channels where the creator mains Linux and it's literally them turning on an expensive camera and talking which is not impressive.
A producer streamer that I follow summed it up the best, "people come to me and say look I got X, Y and Z working in Linux, yeah it took you a week and I got a track produced and 3 videos and a livestream finished in that time."
I'm actually someone who spent years and years dogfooding Linux and BSD. While the privacy and customization benefits are not deniable, you guys literally have stockholm syndrome. I don't mean to be rude but being Linux only in today's world is like riding a bike on the street with cars, they are just going to run you over while you are over here bragging about your carbon frame and squeaky horn.
Also elephant in the room. For the desktop most everything is just a bootloader for the web browser, lets be honest. You remove the web browser and wine what do you have outside of serving web content or math/science models? Maybe some AI and crypto stuff but that is not unique or better with Linux.
Kirb you okay bro? Wanting pussy comes with serious consequences because you're gonna smash a real girl and make babies then be on the hook for child support/slavery payments. Don't be me...
Oh actually I fucked myself. Because I'm financing Serum through splice ($10 a month until I pay off $180) I can't use Serum without the splice program to verify that I've paid my bill, so I'm stuck until I pay that off. I could go the wine route, but knowing my history with wine (it hates me) I'm not super compelled to fight that battle...
Reaper has an actively developed Linux port, and I found this tool which allows you to use windows VSTi binaries in Linux as if they were native, so I don't have to stick around with Windows if I don't want to anymore.