How often does one pay for free/libre software? Unless choosing to send a voluntary contribution to a project, which is not the same as paying in my eyes, it sure has not happened to me in over 25 years when it was easier to order a set of CDs than trying to download the ISOs on a 56k modem.
I paid for a binary of Ardour (music production software). The version in my distro’s repo was very outdated and had bugs, and I wasn’t able to successfully compile it myself.
Where did you buy it from?
Makes sense! I have it from the Debian repo but haven’t set up my studio space and got deep into it yet. What were the issues you were having from the older repo version?
I don’t remember it well, it was probably around 3 years ago. IIRC I had issues with looping.