Comment Re:What's up with music apps on linx???? (Score 1) 85
First of all, the three biggest uses of home computers are multimedia, www, and gaming. Linux has www covered, and gaming is starting to come along, so the area that needs the most work to make Linux popular to the masses is multimedia. Right now, we have GIMP. That's it.
GIMP is great for images. It's adequate as a professional tool. So, with images covered, the next tool in the multimedia progession is for audio (video is a little bit of a way off yet, even on commercial platforms). It makes perfect sense that audio tools would be one of the hottest emerging genres for linux right now.
As has been said before, though, there is a serious need for sample editors. There are a number of linux apps right now that make great shells, but without plugins to actually do anything with those shells, they're useless.
I'm buying a computer today. As much as it pains me, I'm putting an MS OS on it. The ONLY reason is windows-compatible professional-quality sound editing tools.
GIMP is great for images. It's adequate as a professional tool. So, with images covered, the next tool in the multimedia progession is for audio (video is a little bit of a way off yet, even on commercial platforms). It makes perfect sense that audio tools would be one of the hottest emerging genres for linux right now.
As has been said before, though, there is a serious need for sample editors. There are a number of linux apps right now that make great shells, but without plugins to actually do anything with those shells, they're useless.
I'm buying a computer today. As much as it pains me, I'm putting an MS OS on it. The ONLY reason is windows-compatible professional-quality sound editing tools.
