@jwcph@helvede.net that is true.

For what it’s worth, LMMS tends to be more reliable, although if you are using USB to connect MIDI devices, the USB interface itself may not play well with Linux. Linux audio is always a little tricky.

I am trying to find information on how you install Reaper on Linux, it seems like they just provide for you an installer, and you have to rely on the installer to configure your system to install all of the dependencies like the Jack deamon, and whatever else it may need, so unless I try installing it myself I probably won’t be of much help, sorry.

@jwcph@helvede.net I feel your pain.

Before you switch to Linux, you have to make sure you have a replacement in mind for every piece of the software you rely on. If you can get rid of Reaper and replace it with (for example) LMMS, then switching to Linux is going to be just fine for you. But if LMMS isn’t going to work, the safest option is to run Reaper on a separate computer and use Linux for everything else.

You can try running Reaper in Wine, but there is always a very high risk that software will not be reliable when running it in Wine, so you have to consider that risk and ask other people if they have tried it (or test it yourself) before you try to run a piece of software in Wine, especially if you really need it to be very reliable.

There are a lot of people enthusiastic about Linux and they really want other people to switch to it, but in their zeal they often forget some the very basic fact that some people need software to do real work, and that software may not always work on Linux.

If you can explain here what you have tried, maybe I can try to help. Have you tried running Reaper in Wine yet? Have you tried LMMS, or is your workflow dependent on Reaper and LMMS is not an option?