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The biggest thing stopping me from making the switch is that I make music in Ableton and have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on plugins and programs that will only work on windows. Including Ableton itself.
Never looked into this. Do VSTs not work on Linux ? Not withstanding the host ( ableton) of course . What about bitwig ?
Not natively but they do through Reaper For Linux. However, dongles do not. That could still be a big problem.
this is one of the reasons i just sort of inherently refuse to pay for software unless it's explicitly multi-platform. And even then i still probably wouldn't