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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 31st of January 2022 10:55:22 PM Filed under
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One of the things, that has kept me (increasingly) busy over the past few years is my involvement with the Linux distribution Arch Linux. While I have been using Linux for probably about 14 years it is frankly hard to pinpoint when exactly I went down the rabbit hole that this operating system/ ecosystem/ community is (relevant XKCD). However, I can elaborate on my motivation and where that got me.

As a musician of a varying background (from band-based rock music to solo performances on guitar or with a modular synthesizer) I have found myself evaluating the available pieces of software that are commonly used in music production (e.g. Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) and audio plugin-ins). Most of them are proprietary and only available for Windows or macOS (both proprietary as well). During my studies a lot of the software in use has also not been free, but was provided by the university with a student discount (e.g. Operating Systems (OSes), Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) or certain types of Visual Programming Languages (VPLs)). I got increasingly annoyed by dealing with intransparent proprietary OSes, vendor lock-in schemes, paying for software updates and being driven into software piracy for working with so-called industry standards.

Some time during the studies for my B.Sc. I decided to "try out Linux", not knowing what that would mean actually. So there I was, booting an Ubuntu Live CD and clicking around in an interface, that would install the OS alongside a still existing Windows 7. At that point I did not yet know about the joys of missing or failing device drivers. Many hard fights with the X Window System later I settled on Ubuntu Studio for a while, as it had many nice audio related pieces of software available out-of-the-box.

I have always been a person that is interested in "how things work". Soon I realized, that the Linux ecosystem consisted of people that thought quite similarly. Through various (often distribution specific) online documentation, forums, mailing lists and the documentation of software projects for the first time I felt as if I could actually learn something that mattered, because it was not sold in a box and instead had a community of like-minded people gathering around it. I found quite appealing that a lot of things were not polished and that some things were not easy, because it provided the sense of achieving something or getting good at something. Where in Windows land I would have reinstalled the OS upon getting intermittent bluescreens, in Linux land I just kept reading about a certain topic until I was able to fix it myself.

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