do people still use Ubuntu or is something else now popular?
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@junklight
Canonical, the company responsible for Ubuntu, is a piece of shit... that aside, choose any repo you like, switching is easy as long as you at least have a separate partition for `/home`@ki also all vms - they are just for build and test
(I know linux well - used it for decades - first installed it from floppies pre UK internet - which I got access to '96ish
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@junklight Ubuntu is a pretty safe bet and by far the most popular for desktop. I've bounced all around over the years and have wound up on Manjaro.
@bit101 ok cool - I probably need to test a few - 'cos "AUDIO" not the most standard bit of linux
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@bit101 ok cool - I probably need to test a few - 'cos "AUDIO" not the most standard bit of linux
@junklight ah yeah, audio can be tricky on Linux. Pipewire is the best, but it took me a long time to get my head around it.
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@junklight ah yeah, audio can be tricky on Linux. Pipewire is the best, but it took me a long time to get my head around it.
@bit101 not even heard of that - I may have questions!!!
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@bit101 not even heard of that - I may have questions!!!
@junklight you might want to look into Ubuntu Studio. https://ubuntustudio.org/
An Ubuntu distro targeted towards media creation. I've not used it personally. -
@junklight you might want to look into Ubuntu Studio. https://ubuntustudio.org/
An Ubuntu distro targeted towards media creation. I've not used it personally.@bit101 I'm guessing that's going to be reasonably popular amongst my target demographic !
and yeah - that looks like a good starting point !
also I've got a full reaper license somewhere - pretty sure that's cross platform too
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@ki also all vms - they are just for build and test
(I know linux well - used it for decades - first installed it from floppies pre UK internet - which I got access to '96ish
)@junklight
sorry, I misunderstood your question
I've seen CachyOS recommended a lot over the past years, seems to be the latest hot shit
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@bit101 I'm guessing that's going to be reasonably popular amongst my target demographic !
and yeah - that looks like a good starting point !
also I've got a full reaper license somewhere - pretty sure that's cross platform too
@junklight I see Ubuntu Studio uses Jack rather than Pipewire. But if it's all configured correctly and works out of the box, that will probably be fine.
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@junklight
sorry, I misunderstood your questionI've seen CachyOS recommended a lot over the past years, seems to be the latest hot shit
@ki yeah - sorry - should have been clearer
ok cool though that's helpful - looking at audio stuff so it's all a bit less standard than mac/win (mind you I've not managed to make an ARM windows build either yet....)
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@junklight I see Ubuntu Studio uses Jack rather than Pipewire. But if it's all configured correctly and works out of the box, that will probably be fine.
@bit101 I do know Jack a bit so at least its not ALL new
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@bit101 I do know Jack a bit so at least its not ALL new
@junklight I guess I can't say "you don't know jack"
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@junklight I guess I can't say "you don't know jack"
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@ki yeah - sorry - should have been clearer
ok cool though that's helpful - looking at audio stuff so it's all a bit less standard than mac/win (mind you I've not managed to make an ARM windows build either yet....)
@junklight
maybe look for a distribution with a "realtime" kernel. pipewire has streamlined audio over the past years but you still have to take care of configuring the limits for JACK applications.
I'm not sure how well this works on VMs, sorry, but when xruns are an issue, you can always crank up the buffer size -
@junklight
maybe look for a distribution with a "realtime" kernel. pipewire has streamlined audio over the past years but you still have to take care of configuring the limits for JACK applications.
I'm not sure how well this works on VMs, sorry, but when xruns are an issue, you can always crank up the buffer size@ki yeah will have a poke about - my main goal is to ship an audio plugin that will work on as much linux as possible right now
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do people still use Ubuntu or is something else now popular?
Just looking at my linux build.......
(kind of hoping it's straight forward - we've had no issues moving between mac and windows so far)
@junklight @linuxaudiodevelopment - I've switched back to #Debian recently, which is (almost) where I started, almost 30 years ago.
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@junklight @linuxaudiodevelopment - I've switched back to #Debian recently, which is (almost) where I started, almost 30 years ago.
@philcowans @linuxaudiodevelopment
I'll definitely give that one a go - I always remember it being slightly more awkward than everything else - has that changed? or are they all better now? -
@junklight @linuxaudiodevelopment - I've switched back to #Debian recently, which is (almost) where I started, almost 30 years ago.
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@philcowans @linuxaudiodevelopment
I'll definitely give that one a go - I always remember it being slightly more awkward than everything else - has that changed? or are they all better now?@junklight I would say Debian has become a lot easier to get started with in like the last decade or so. The non-free/non-free-firmware split a few years ago made things easier if you want a system on which the hardware is usable but otherwise stay within the DFSG/Debian Free Software Guidelines.
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@ki yeah will have a poke about - my main goal is to ship an audio plugin that will work on as much linux as possible right now
@ki@chaos.social @junklight@mastodon.art
idk which distro uses what, but qpwgraph is pretty cool
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@ki@chaos.social @junklight@mastodon.art
idk which distro uses what, but qpwgraph is pretty cool
@ki@chaos.social @junklight@mastodon.art
on qpwgraph i was able to attach two difgerent apps to one input (my mic) and i had a stable cross-software call
