was too incompetent to install arch one time so i used archinstaller and created a separate home partition. couple years later that root partiton’s close to filled up, and i do an update after deleting come programs to free up space. then some weird text appeaerrs in terminal, and so i try to update again (this time specifically wine), says loads of files already exist in filesystem. i think “this is weird”, so i restart.

what instantly gets my attention is this text greeting me on boot

loading Linux linux… error: file ‘/vmlinuz-linux’ not found. Loading initial ramdisk… error: you need to load the kernel first.

Press any key to continue.

yup, i just borked my install, so i hastily whipped out an outdated arch USB, updated it using a spare laptop and am now on a reinstall (luckily i keep the important files on a separate drive, so not all is lost). extra insult to injury was that my previous install had my drive LUKS encrypted, so i couldn’t evne get in there to possibly backup anything if i tried lol. but it’s feels refreshing starting anew though.

you can also search for the song on a search engine and just type deezer at the end of it, then get the link that way.

ye i’d also look up Redcurrant and STR-X as well. I often use the HyBrit amp sim with a boost pedal in front (like the NA Clon Centuar or the TSE-999)

ye this is weird. do you have any other wine packages installed (like mono, gecko, and corefonts?) i remember installing them (and i think .net framework and visual c++ as well) before installing FL Studio.

if all that fails then idk, i’m just as stumped as you. wine can be a bit hit or miss, especially on certain setups.

Wow, those are some pretty glaring issues. Have you checked your winecfg? I have mine on Windows 10 (and probably make sure yours is too. If it’s on XP, change it to 10). What WINE version are you running? (i’m on 8.13)

If that doesn’t fix it then i’m kinda stumped.

Heard certain Nvidia cards can cause issues (i’m on an AMD rx570). Don’t know if it could be related but ye those are quite the rendering issues.

I use FL Studio on Arch with mostly VST2 plugins and it runs pretty well. Only thing that is a little gripe is VST3 plugins (the GUI doesn’t update when you’re tweaking parameters). Generally VST plugins in FL Studio work pretty well for me.

I use free plugins which either come in a zip file or an .msi installer. There were some plugins which required a “Software Center” program to install, and yes, those are very tedious (I’d say even on windows). Truly hate those things.

I’ve had a couple plugins which have had certain GUI elements missing, but that’s the only extent. (one example is a spring reverb plugin which doesn’t render the knobs, but thankfully they have a shadow so i can still figure out where they are).

What sort of plugins are you using? Certain copy protection might be a bit harder to run on WINE than others. (Especially iLok, that thing seems like a pain).

mfs too lazy to use the onion smh. yeah it’s a little slow but it’s the best way to use zlib.

back in the day i used to play cracked left 4 dead online using garena (it was basically a game server software where users could join rooms and they would have servers. i mostly remember there being south americans/slavic people on there. was quite interesting. afaik it would use steam group servers to connect (which may could be a lan type thing but idk).

idk how it works now but i’d imagine it would be tougher now with current games acting more like a live service. if you get bored of playing with slavs every time then it’s time to buy the game.

discovered a workaround that i could get to the C drive, then discovered a program that could change the wallpaper and info text on the computer (the change was local to that specific computer). had a little bit of fun with that a couple of times. i also brought in a USB stick with Linux Mint installed on it and booted to that whenever i had free time (i mostly browsed the safe side of the darkweb [back when it was still interesting] and made keygen music in OpenMPT). fun times those were. also booting to mint led me to fully switch to linux so ye :)