sadko4u wrote:Will MS Windows support ext2 out of the box? I doubt it. Should we really blame MS for not supporting it out of the box? We - sure. Other users still don't know what's exactly ext2 is.
The analogy is not right because it misses the volume factor. That other users do not know about ext2 is all right since poeple using ext2 are a small group, for a given market and, one that does not necessarily attract sales.
sadko4u wrote:It's an economic rule. The rules dictate that who has huge auditory. Linux is still overtaking Win and Mac in audio development.
Can you give some examples of the overtaking ? If I look at plugins (and I do not use Windows at all) there's a lot of development in commercial VST plugins, all backed up by many dollars. Look at the choice of vintage emulations just for one.
sadko4u wrote:It won't support LV2 until we force Reaper developers to support LV2. The best way I think is to provide anti-advertising for this DAW in Linux Community with slogan "Please buy Reaper for Linux because it is so good that it still can't deal anything with LV2!"
Why oh why would Linux people do that ? It's already said that LV2 has not so much advantages over VST, and that should probably be VST3 by now. Why do this to people who surely against all of their financial dept. nevertheless decided to make a Linux version fo their product ? Why chop the grass under their feet ?
Luc wrote:Then there goes another DAW that cannot use LV2 plugins. That is self inflicted isolation.
sadko4u wrote:This will be true if other DAWs still are not using LV2 plugins. If another DAW will come to Linux and other DAWS mostly will support LV2, then to become competitive to other DAWs developers will be forced to support LV2.
This is true in principle, although Bitwig is a big one and they don't. Morever, if people turns more and more to Linux for audio production, for what Linux has to offer, like stability of filesystem, stability of OS in major user-friendly distros, and other solid reasons, then the VST market will pick up on that also and it could be possible to see more commercial 'Windows' VST ported to LinuxVST instead of LV2 because after all they'll want to keep cost, bugs and support down.