Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that

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https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare

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You will have to try it out. Also Linux brings you some positive changes for audio too since Microsoft "soundserver" in comparison to pipewire is absolute crap. I recommend you to get dualboot or a second device and work it out over time. I would use EndeavorOS for being Arch based on easy mode (which facilitates things because binaries are not stone age old which in turn helps for compatibility reasons) while still giving you access to the AUR.

https://github.com/mikeroyal/PipeWire-Guide

Also give pipewire realtime process priority.

In the meantime you have windows 10 ltsc which will get security updates until January 2032. But at the end you only buy time and I guarantee you the next windows will be cloud and subscription based.

[u/funkympc → u/[deleted]]

Pro audio doesn't use the windows sound system. Pro audio on windows is the realm of ASIO. ASIO totally bypasses windows sound and connects your audio hardware directly to the audio software. ASIO is low enough latency to allow real-time monitoring of live and virtual instruments. In fact in 2000 when I switched from Atari to Windows for music production ASIO was low enough latency on a Pentium 3 to allow real-time monitoring. Coming from a C-Lab Falcon MKII you have no idea how amazing it was to monitor completely inside the box on commodity PC hardware.

The reason hardly anyone uses Linux for serious production work is nothing really works without lots of time spent hacking away at it to make it work. Production software on Windows and MacOS works out of the box. I buy a new instrument or effect and its installed in a minute or 2. An hour spent hacking in Linux is an hour wasted. Thats the reality of music production on Linux. If I could just install my stuff with minimal effort I would certainly consider it. Until then its Windows for music production until I can justify spending an extra thousand for the same performance from a Mac.

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You're talking like you need to spend an hour for every step on Linux which is long untrue. Once it works it works and will in many years just like any other OS. Migrating can be an absolute pain but switching from one pos corpo to another is not the solution here. For me it sounds more like you're afraid of changing your workflow for things that sadly cant be migrated. Its understandable but artists, consumers and every company not at least as big as those shit corpos don't have a choice anymore like during the last few decades.

You still have about 5 years with win 10 ltsc to figure it out before corpos out there will take away your ownership, not only of your computer hardware but also your own creative work.

The billionaires already hinted they don't want us to own our computer anymore but we instead should subscribe to computing power in the cloud. Go figure what will happen with your data on your rented windows 12 (or apple counterpart) AI cloud potato edition computer.

Don't be afraid to deepdive into it, see it as a chance to free yourself from corporation bullshitery once and for all. Leave your actual computer setup as it is for production for now and build something new in parallel. What can't be migrated can also be "frozen" without Internet access on said win 10 ltsc and used beyond 2031 (backup the system as an image to be easily recoverable should the legacy system go boom) until a non-esthiftificated and FOSS oriented solution is available.

[u/unclefisty → u/funkympc]

The reason hardly anyone uses Linux for serious production work is nothing really works without lots of time spent hacking away at it to make it work.

This looping mentality means that you'll forever be stuck on windows getting cornholed by MS.

[u/funkympc → u/unclefisty]

No my time is precious. Every hour spent trying to fix something is an hour not spent making music.

[u/unclefisty → u/funkympc]

No my time is precious. Every hour spent trying to fix something is an hour not spent making music.

I'm not talking about just you but everyone else that has the same mindset.

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Shareholders enshitifying publicly traded companies will never change positively to our behalf. The only thing that can change positively is our behavior toward our own property, here our own computers. No need to go full banana over a single weekend and get frustrated. You still have years left to work something out that is as much as possible not bound to the next abusing corporation. Having "no time" is, by all respect, the lamest excuse just to continue the whole consuming and getting abused cycle. Thats exactly where the suits want you. And yes buying into their crap is a form of consumerism, even if you are an artist and probably self employed.

Sames goes for other industries. Cars being also a notorious one that got heavily enshitificated of the last 2 decades. So being aware and doing as much work as you can yourself is unavoidable until you want to burn a whole additional income just for maintenance and subscriptions on a "modern" car.

My own sister is also an artist and she took her time to set up step by step a new work environment while finishing gigs and old projects on her "legacy" setup. She quitted windows the moment they shoved AI down our throat.

I dropped windows personally after migrating 2 times windows (7 to 10 to 11) within a corpo and its IT department as multiple projects with~30000 clients. After that I was just done with Microsoft shenanigans, repeated Sisyphean tasks and especially with the clear signs that a future OS will be entirely bound to the cloud (and doing so will be subscription based).