do people still use Ubuntu or is something else now popular?
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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
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@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
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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 @linuxaudiodevelopment - every time I've installed it recently it's just been a matter of booting from the installation media and answering a few questions, and all of the hardware I've used it with has been fully supported.
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@junklight @linuxaudiodevelopment - every time I've installed it recently it's just been a matter of booting from the installation media and answering a few questions, and all of the hardware I've used it with has been fully supported.
@junklight @linuxaudiodevelopment - I should add that I haven't used it for serious audio work, so can't directly comment on that.
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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)
well that was easier than I expected!!!
few small C++ quirks but compiles.
However pipewire has errors and it doesn't actually run - I think those are the same issue (ie install pipewire properly and it will be good!)
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@ki@chaos.social @junklight@mastodon.art
idk which distro uses what, but qpwgraph is pretty cool
@bedhead @junklight
I used to use Carla, but nowadays I just wire everything using Ardour, which runs much more stable -
well that was easier than I expected!!!
few small C++ quirks but compiles.
However pipewire has errors and it doesn't actually run - I think those are the same issue (ie install pipewire properly and it will be good!)
@junklight Ubuntu is a pretty safe bet, and you’ll find quite some audio people using Ubuntu Studio. So it should cover a lot users.
If you’d like to try an Arch-based distro, I recommend CachyOS for easy install and setup. Here is my setup with Pipewire, RT Kernel and more: https://mortenmosgaard.dk/how-i-setup-cachy-os-arch-linux-for-music-production/
Use Millisecond for Low latency settings and Cachy’s Kernel Manager for installing RT kernel, though the performance optimized Cachy kernel is fast enough.
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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 You should be fine with Ubuntu, I'd say.
Nowadays I see a growing number of Linux musicians are using Arch Linux based distributions. A while back I wrote an article about getting started with music production in Linux: https://amadeuspaulussen.com/blog/2025/a-guide-for-getting-started-with-music-production-on-linux
Linux Audio developers often use Debian based systems for backward compatibility, also see: https://linuxaudio.dev/#linux-development-os-recommendation
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@junklight You should be fine with Ubuntu, I'd say.
Nowadays I see a growing number of Linux musicians are using Arch Linux based distributions. A while back I wrote an article about getting started with music production in Linux: https://amadeuspaulussen.com/blog/2025/a-guide-for-getting-started-with-music-production-on-linux
Linux Audio developers often use Debian based systems for backward compatibility, also see: https://linuxaudio.dev/#linux-development-os-recommendation
@linuxaudiodevelopment thank you. Those three (or variations) have all come up. Will test with those and should be a good start!
I’m not moving my dev to Linux. Just final build for the moment.
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