first of all, call me when macos can run games (at least as many and as well as linux).
second of all, are you going to buy me a macbook? these things are expensive.
third of all, I don’t want daddy cook’s permission to do something with my computer. linux is freedom and that’s all there is to it. windows used to be like that for the loooongest time, but win11 can’t get its shit together to save its market share
What world do you live in? This just is not the right time to kiss US oligarchs’ lower backs.
Do you know if I did my wineprefix incorrectly?
if it literally says [homefolder] then that’s definitely incorrect. it should be something like /home/carsareveryk00l/.var/……
The brackets are of my own creation. It does have the regular folder structure beforehand.
In defense of Dreamtonics, it must have been a pita or a technical otherwise to not have a version 2 that runs on Linux. They would not do that for sheer mean-ness. (I don’t think so anyway).
I assume Dreamtonics are all grown-up people who can speak for themselves. Also, not sure if ignorance really does not qualify as mean-ness.
it’s just a business decision, like it or not…
I still wonder why Dreamtonics decided to cease support for the Linux builds. SynthV 1 used to run on Linux natively. Did Dreamtonics believe that making the Linux build was simply not profitable?
my understanding was linux users represent a very small % of their purchased-product user base, but also a significant % of the support calls… due to flexibility in linux systems, i suspect unpaid support for potentially complex configurations is not desirable, esp if the priority is directing resources to the development teams in order to bring competitive products to market. not a unique case for dreamtonics as many other companies have also encountered similar impact on their support teams.
You can turn this around: Everyone has the right to make all the business decisions they want, but they cannot expect everyone to appreciate these. And it certainly goes the wrong way if you start finding excuses for decisions you do not like. That might work with Apple, who have more like disciples than customers, but not within the free market.
Bitwig is an example of a manufacturer who continues Linux support also with their latest major update. And it is not like Windows is a monolithic system void of any configuration and driver issues.
The fact that this is the second-most-viewed post in this forum with regular updates keeps surprising me sometimes. We are having a growing population of Windows ”dislikers”.
I am hoping they reconsider, but I also realize there’s a lot of additional stuff going on in Synthesizer V 2 than a typical audio plugin, primarily all the built-in web browser stuff.
If they do manage it, I think building for flatpak for the stand alone app might be their best bet since all dependencies would be guaranteed to be included and support itself would hopefully be minimal. They could also release it without providing any customer support for Linux. CLAP and VST3 both have full Linux SDKs.
I’d be pretty happy with a flatpak and a VST3. I have personally spent quite a lot of money on SVS1 and SVS2 (probably over $1000 across both with all the voices I’ve purchased), although I was originally running it on Windows in Reaper. It became an integral part of all of my music projects in Reaper, and the ARA plugin was a massive improvement when that was released. I moved over to Linux about a year ago and haven’t really used SVS2 at all since then because I haven’t really gotten it to behave across yabridge, especially not with ARA.
But I refuse to go back to Windows at this point. A shame I can’t use SVS2 at the moment, but hopefully one day that will change.
I’m able to run my script, open up a copy of synthesizer V 2 through the terminal with the script I made, but I cannot get it to run in a .desktop script. I have gotten it to run as a .sh script from my terminal. I run firefox as a flatpak if that helps.
How does this work on a bottle (if you know)?
I would need more information, bud. what script do you mean? also firefox as a flatpak might interfere with authentication/redirection. also .desktop is unlikely to either work or be useful to you - you only need the script that redirects the authentication for the time(s) when you authenticate.
I’ve gotten a new laptop and am trying to make it work now, but I haven’t made great progress so far. I’ll make a video if I do manage to get the app authenticated and can reliably reproduce it, which isn’t the case so far.
if you can’t wait - set up winboat, that’s relatively easily and is guaranteed to work.
Yes, please support Linux. ASIO feels janky, I’ll stick with PipeWire.
The script that’s used to open up synthesizer V within the .sh or .desktop file. However, I have to place quotation marks on the running program or else I get a permission denied error when running it through the terminal.
env WINEPREFIX= ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/synthv/ ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/runners/kron4ek-wine-11.2-amd64/bin/wine "C:\Program Files\Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro\synthv-studio.exe" "$1"
It says that permission is denied to the bottle folder. I can place quotations and it works fine in the terminal, but doesn’t open a program up when running .sh or .desktop file as a program.
*I slapped wine instead of env and that error went away, now it is a file not found error.