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Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements.
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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2024
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I've just recently moved over to 11, because Windows 10 is going EOL in 2025. I needed to switch at some point anyways, so I might as well get it over with. I'm wondering if consumers can get access to LTSC releases of Windows though. Perhaps some form of enterprise edition, if LTSC editions aren't publicly available.
The problem being of course that I can't move from my precious Ableton Live and I really don't want a MacBook. Before I installed 11 I tried it under wine, using Bazzite no less. Could've gone with a more music centric distribution, but everything points towards it not being stable for live usage - like at all, even with WineASIO. Couldn't get the Push to register, and the buffer was hammered with just a little bit of processing. So, yeah...
My old Windows 10 install was Atlas OS, but now I'm trying Revision OS for 11. It must be doing something right for Windows Defender to quarantine one of it's files. High praise from Caesar indeed. Revision is also a light modification, whereas Atlas OS pretty much nukes all the things - with varying effects and successes. In the end, they are community projects that obviously ruffle Microsoft's feathers. So, yeah...
It's a question of how to make a music workstation by choosing the right windows edition, or how to hack at the system until Microsoft limbs are gimped. Also, I don't think I'll need a printer spool. In any case, it's a pain in my arse that I now also have to find a way to nuke Copilot. That will surely just wreck my buffer absolutely. "But you could use it for music creation"... what's the fun in that?
In any case, please list your favourite key reseller sites. I might need to go shopping for something special, and Pro might not cut it.
For 11, not yet. For 10, i copied the iso from work. MS really don't want to open the floodgates of LTSC for consumers.
But Ableton Live seems to work fine in wine and with pipewire-jack you get realtime audio.
Edit: seems realtime audio in wine is a bit more involved.
A bit more involved indeed. It's not like I didn't try. The goal was to get it as good or as close to the performance you get in Windows.
Again, if you're just using a mouse and keyboard to compose music, that's okay, but you'll put pressure on the Live engine buffer and most likely suffer dropouts - or buffer overruns - as soon as you add a little bit of processing. Juxtaposed to windows, that well runeth dry real quick.
Realtime MIDI and audio is even harder, because getting midi signals from several USB devices cleanly into wine is not as cut and dry as you'd think. There'd need to be some kind of pass thru on the kernel level to really get some of these MIDI devices working. Perhaps even pass thru of USB audio interfaces might be the ticket. But as is? NGL, kind of limited.. and useless for me :/
Sadness.
EDIT: I was using the TKG version of wine, but this seems slightly better... might have to give it a retry. Good thing I left 200GB empty at the end of my SSD :P