Hai,
thanks!
Arranging/writing music using GNU/Linux is fine.
I do all my writing in Musescore and just started recording with Ardour.
Musescore has some flaws but nothing mayor and i find workarounds so far. The
good thing is(appart from that it is libre) that it does not include any of
the 8u1l$h!t-features like the commercial score editors do.
In Ardour i am not too experienced but so far it all works fine (as long as
the hardware cooperates)
I have been trying for 2 years to get a FW soundcard working on my laptop and
i recently found out it did not work due to the wrong FW chipset. On an old
laptop it did work but it was too slow so now i bought a new desktop...
Macs are pretty but i do not like handcuffs, the Firewire cards are bad as
well.
cheerz :)