For the sake of verity, I am obliged to remind and warn readers of this thread, to take everything with a pinch of salt. Linux, notwithstanding of all the pontification, can be a true nightmare and time-waster. Needless to state, I am a Linux (Devuan) user for well over a decade. I am also one of the pioneers who pushed forward for the notorious Debian fork which gave the birth of Devuan. Be aware, many hardware manufacturers refuse to support open source by not publishing information of how to write drivers for their products. This leads to a driver hell where users cannot use their hardware for lacking drivers. Open source developers also did not create alternatives to using available drivers for other operating systems like MS Windows and Mac. The only alternative is ndiswrapper which is only intended for WiFi chips.
Linux makes a computer to "just" work like a lot of open source software. Therefore, be prapared to use half-baked software which, if you have some coding experience, feels like being left in the middle of its development cycle.
If you want the feel and reliability of commercial software and operating systems, use those: do not let yourself be deceived.
Linux makes a computer to "just" work like a lot of open source software. Therefore, be prapared to use half-baked software which, if you have some coding experience, feels like being left in the middle of its development cycle.
If you want the feel and reliability of commercial software and operating systems, use those: do not let yourself be deceived.
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I was having a lot of issues with these same things in various Windows setups as well, so not sure if Linux is the only OS that can have issues with API in terms of Audio.
Latency, routing, buffers, filter processing.
It all adds up, programs for EQ and filters are very useful for experimenting with topologies and such.
But low latency is much too important for me so dedicated DSP processors won the fight, by a ridiculously large margin.
if you want to torture yourself, look at gentoo. you'll end up with a highly customized version of linux. I can't really recommend it unless you are very experienced.
that said, go with the latest Ubuntu. you'll see it's advantages and shortcomings and then can switch to a different distro if you'd like.
that said, go with the latest Ubuntu. you'll see it's advantages and shortcomings and then can switch to a different distro if you'd like.
Gentoo is a source based distribution which means a lot of time is wasted in vain to create a Linux OS which can otherwise be created using other more practical repositories.
To build an OS, I go either with Debian or Devuan. They have huge repositories which can be used. Debian and Devuan can be installed without an installer through the use of debootstrap. I have used this method, in the not so remote past, and it worked. Debootstrap fetches and installs a very very basic base system without a root account and a configured network. When debootstrap finishes installing, the installation partition is used with chroot and /bin/sh to setup a root account and a user account. With this I also do the network configuration. The required packages are then installed using "apt install package_name"; dependencies are installed automatically.
I will not be surprised if the method I described above can be used with Ubuntu's repositories.
Mint is like Ubuntu but with a conventional desktop design and the commercial stuff removed. Mint OS updates lag in time behind Ubuntu's.
Been using Pop_OS (Ubuntu fork) for a about 10 months now before that I was mostly a Windows user. I enjoy using Pop_OS , plus it's stable and has constant updates. It's a good alternative to Windows and Apple as a desktop experience for a person with basic computer knowledge. I use DeadBeef as a player. https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/ It's flexible with lots of options and sounds good.
Hi All,
So I tinkered around with a few of the distros and it seems that Arch is the best suited for my tastes. I put together a spreadsheet of the suggestions in this thread and attached it. (no macros)
I have found myself caught up in my geek nature and am putting together a multi boot system with arch, U Studio, Mint and ??
This project (multiboot) is not in the scope of this thread / forum so I will ask for advice about those issues in everything else and see if any of the "experts" can help me out.
I'll get back to the audio at a later date.
Looks like you get a screen shot not a document.
Thanks
Jeremy
So I tinkered around with a few of the distros and it seems that Arch is the best suited for my tastes. I put together a spreadsheet of the suggestions in this thread and attached it. (no macros)
I have found myself caught up in my geek nature and am putting together a multi boot system with arch, U Studio, Mint and ??
This project (multiboot) is not in the scope of this thread / forum so I will ask for advice about those issues in everything else and see if any of the "experts" can help me out.
I'll get back to the audio at a later date.
Looks like you get a screen shot not a document.
Thanks
Jeremy
Used it for many years. It's been a long while but no matter how tight and sparse the initial system build the dependencies eventually ballooned uncontrollably until the only program that would start was LILO: LILILILILILILILILILILILI..........
Now using Manjaro with a tiling window manager and can't ever see myself going back to the Windows gui paradigm. Or an eternal vigilance opt out model.