I try to increase the screen size in wincfg and log out and back in from the desktop. Restart a windows program but the screen size is not changed! This worked in Mint. So what am I doing wrong here? or should it be configured differently in zorin?
Bought Zorin pro today.
You go to the wine configurations settings to tab graphics. There is a slider which you can move that changes dpi or you can set "emulate a virtual desktop".
I have two programs installed in wine. Reaper and the Toontrack drum program. But only Reaper responds to this graphical slider in wincfg.
My conclusion after testing installing my music production programs in wine is;
Only one program is compatible. (Toontrack drummer)
I use Mixcraft studio, which is not compatible with wine.
I use Toontrack bass, which is not compatible with wine.
I use several other win music programs for configuring midi files, which are also not compatible with wine.
Microsoft office is also not compatible with wine.
So my conclusion is that I will continue to produce music in win11 in the future, as I have done so far. And use zorin for the internet.
But thanks for the help.
Linux mint uses Xorg and Pipewire by default instead of Wayland and Pulseaudio in Zorin. I don't know if this makes the difference.
You can switch to Xorg on your loginscreen. Reboot and then click on your profile. A gear icon appears on the screen. There you can set Zorin Desktop on Xorg.
You could install windows as virtual machine in Zorin to use your windows apps (when you have enough RAM), but it is not so comfortable when you often need it and want to daily work with it.
Well, I think I have enough resources to use Virtualbox for win11 with the music programs. See the picture.
But what do you mean by "but it is not so comfortable when you often need it and want to daily work with it." ?
The virtual machine shares resources (e.g. CPU performance, RAM) with the host operating system. This makes the system slower than, for example, with a dual boot or a normal, singular real installation.
It also takes longer to start up or to call up websites. Everything is slower.
But that's my personal opinion. I wouldn't want to use it for work.
Perhaps it makes not such a difference on a system with many resources. I only have 8 GB RAM in total (Host Win 11, Guest Zorin lite) and in virtual machine everything is extremely slow.
Yes i se that to. I think its best to use win11 for many off my win app. But i will anyway do this:
It is entirely possible to use Zorin to produce a backtrack in the studio for my tchelicon pedal. I think it is a significantly more stable method.
Basically, these are the only two programs I will use, as I will physically use both my bass guitar, guitar and keyboards in the studio, together with the EZdrummer drum program. This is to get the most acoustic result possible. This is as much about getting the best acoustic sound as it is about my own self-esteem.
Image from zorin to day.
You could always try PCLOS Debian Plasma edition. No bloatware of systemd and Pipewire default audio. Additionally there is a multimedia distro created by a musician, AV Linux:
There is a drum machine app for GNU/Linux, Hydrogen (includes a tutorial track from the late great Robert Pocaro for TOTO's Georgy Porgy track), a multimedia track producer, LMMS, and a MIDI synthesizer ZynAddSubFX. You may want to consider ditching Pulse Audio (I don't mean remove it or the whole system goes down). I prefer to install all ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), plus all the packages beginning with Qas (QasConfig, QasHctl QasMixer) and if mixing from multiple sources, JACK audio packages.
Their website hasn't been available for days.
I read it is due to a fire in a building somewhere.
PCLOS Debian is not PCLOS:
No prob, I stand corrected in that respect.
Thanks for pointing that out.
I use Zorin OS Pro on both my laptops, but on my desktop computer I also want to try using a Linux operating system for music production, but haven't decided yet.
AV linux is fine when you watch his video. But test it and I think this is a terribly clunky difficult desktop environment that I definitely want to steer clear of. Also, completely hopeless to install if you are going to install it on a system where there are other operating systems to take into account. I only have one answer to give about AV Linux and Enligment; Why make it so terribly complicated! If AVLinux came with xfce and had a significantly simpler and more understandable installation process, I would of course have gone for AVLinux, but unfortunately that is not the case today.
Another alternative is Ubuntu Studio. But here you get everything or nothing. Yes, you are left with everything that Ubuntu Studio can offer, over 80% of the programs you will probably never use. A hopeless choice when it comes to installation choices.
When it comes to Windows programs in Linux, this can probably be seen as a Wine problem.
So am still stuck vid win10 and musicproductions program om my desktop computer.
