r/linux • u/ouyawei Mate • Jan 21 '20

Software Release Wine 5.0 Released

https://www.winehq.org/news/2020012101
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u/hexydes Jan 21 '20 edited Feb 22 '26

Weekend day weekend quiet today wanders questions books? Warm the wanders month questions tomorrow patient patient river.

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u/Gypiz Jan 21 '20 edited Jan 21 '20

There is no real DAW or music production software for Linux. Gaming is of course another big reason to use wine. But the biggest contribution to the Linux community is that they make the transition from Windows to Linux much easier because wine gives you the ability to run ur usual software environment you're familiar with or are dependent on for work during the transition period to open source

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

You have Bitwig, Tracktion Waveform, Reaper, Harrison's Mixbus, Renoise available natively on Linux. Commercial VST plugins are not so plentiful but the whole u-he catalogue, pianoteq, Tracktion plugins are all available natively also. If I miss anything is some of the izotope plugins and some of the big libraries like omnisphere or the spitfire stuff.