Linux OS Support

[marwin89]

What

Make vocaluxe playable on modern Linux OS (various distributions).

Why

Increase audience reach by round about 10%
People can use Raspberry Pi devices for vocaluxe setup.

Additional Info

This ticket is for backlog, thought as reminder.

[Flova]

I have a have some Linux knowledge and might be interested to help here. As this is enduser software we would probably don't want to bother releasing different packages for all kinds of distributions, we should look at flatpak, snap and appimage.
Flatpak and snap are similar in the sense that they isolate programs, have some package manager like tooling and ship the program in a known environment including all libraries. The difference between them is that flatpak is more open and snap is a bit more popular due to the dominance of Ubuntu and it being from the same company.
Appimage on the other hand is similar to a portable executable in Windows. It is not really installed on the system. You just get a single file, that statically includes all relevant libraries.

[marwin89]

Hi Florian, it would be cool if you can bring vocaluxe to linux. Since your the only one with the knowledge and motivation, I'm happy if you decide how it should be done and implement it. Snap looks good to me but every way would be a progress. As project manager of Vocaluxe I support you. 👋🏻

[Flova]

I try to look at that, but I need to say my knowledge with the .NET ecosystem is a quite limited (especially non .Net Core). But I am willing to learn new things in this regard. This project is based on .NET Framework version 4.7.1 correct? And this version is able theoretically able to run on Linux with mono, but newer versions of .NET would be easier. Looking at the previous work for Linux in this project, the .NET runtime was not really the issue, but I would like to understand it before looking at packaging it with external libs like ffmpeg etc..

[flokuep]

Glad to hear that 🙃 you might have a look on this. https://github.com/Vocaluxe/Vocaluxe/blob/develop/HowToBuildLinux.md

You're right on the used .net version. If upgrading would make things easier, give it a try. We should just ensure that we don't break the CI (or adjust it accordingly)