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Forum: Wishes and new features

Topic: Linux??
Any chance of making a version of VirtualDJ that will run on Linux?
 
Inviato Thu 24 Jul 25 @ 2:44 pm
If you google you will find officially no however some people have got it to work in a limited capacity.

It's not going to happen.
 
IMO getting it to run on Linux (compiled or emulated) isn't really the biggest issue.

Besides virtually negligible adoption for DJing compared to other platforms, the biggest issue imo is probably Hardware compatibility.

Pretty sure most people planning to use VirtualDJ in a professional sense, want to use it with hardware, but Atomix doesn't make hardware - they depend on hardware vendors, and the vendors almost exclusively focus on MacOS and Windows and also in a non class compliant way (which means drivers/full compatibility aren't available).
Look at DJay on iOS for similar situation (no custom drivers currently allowed on that platform) - there is a push there because Apple products have good adoption in general and going lighter/more portable is valued.

Maybe one day things will change 🍺
 
Okay. So I "dj" dance parties for my school (using the term "DJ" very loosely). And they are fixing to wipe the Windows10 laptop I've been using to run the parties and slap Linux on them. So I was curious if there was a Linux version.
I have enough influence with our technology head to get something for me to use with Windows.
 
None of the major players (VirtualDJ, Traktor, Recordbox, Serato) offer Linux versions. The market percentage is too small.

There's really only one name that comes up for Linux users. Mixxx.
 
Tbh Mixxx devs are doing a hell of a job overall to have their offering where it is, but still, no drivers = no dice for a lot of controllers.

I suspect Standalone platforms like the Prime Series could using Linux or a BSD on their devices as the OS to run their software, but there the environment is controlled (one set of peripherals to deal with).
 
So they're killing off Windows 10 support this month, actually in 11 days. Okay that's not completely true, as the E.U. and those who pay for the extended support can still get them. I heard this from a friend of mine:

"So I work I.T. in education and Microsoft is selling us extended support for $0.94 per Windows 10 computer for the first year, $2 for the 2nd year, and $4 for the 3rd year. What's funny about how it works is that Microsoft still publishes the updates and you can still download them, but without the ESU (Extended Security Updates) key the update will just refuse to install. So it's not really that they're no longer doing any updates, it's that they're just blocking your computer from installing the updates they release."

The point is though, that a majority of endusers are being told that their systems that cannot run the new Windows 11 are obsolete and will needlessly become e-waste when they could run Linux perfectly fine. There are a lot of users who are going to either buy new systems so they can continue running it, or who will keep the old systems and just put Linux on them.

I'm planning to wipe my system and throw on some type of rolling release version of Linux. Then the only real alternative I'll have is MIXXX, which, while it is great it doesn't do videos or karaoke. So I'd really like a version of VDJ that runs on Linux, and I know I'm not the only one.

Okay maybe it isn't a huge market, but the market size is still a non-zero number. So far there have been four threads on here about Linux. I'm only adding to this one because I didn't want to make yet another one and it's the latest one posted.

Anyway I know that it probably still wont happen. You guys are going to do whatever you're going to do. I just wanted to give some more information for you to consider on the matter because this is something I do care about and really would like to see come to fruition.
 
Note that the youngest computers that by next year can not be upgraded to Windows 11 will be at least 8 years old, so I think it's indeed a small amount of potential users.