In the early 2000s (Saffire) they provided free hardware to those who write Linux drivers.
That changed around 2010.
When I reverse engineered the Scarlet Gen 1, and wrote the kernel driver they were not very helpful. I got a 18i6 from a friend who was frustrated it didn't work on Linux. Focusrite showed little interest when I contacted them.
It's 2023, why can't they use a web interface, and still require custom drivers for the mixer?
@x42 Thanks for sharing! Interesting. You know, I personally love what e.g. #rme are doing. They provide all sorts of apps for #windows and #macos, but offer the option to use their interfaces solely via the #hardware and without any drivers with a #usb#classcompliant mode too. You miss a bunch of channels that way, but I even extended my #interface with 8 additional #microphone inputs via #adat and couldn't be happier with how it performs on #linux. #linuxaudio
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