Decided it was time to move my music production activities to my backup refurbished laptop, since it's more quiet and generally faster.
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Decided it was time to move my music production activities to my backup refurbished laptop, since it's more quiet and generally faster. I have installed CachyOS/Gnome again and followed my own guide (I should blog some more, so I remember what worked for me).
Laptop is a HP ZBook 15 G6, 32 GB of memory, 1 TB HD, NVIDIA Quadro T2000 3GB. A beast for the price of 600 euro, and there is even room for more memory and hard drives with easy access from the bottom.
To be honest, the HP Zbook seem to have a couple of quirks my Lenovo doesn't have. It sometimes freezes under heavy graphical loads (like in a game) and when it has gone to sleep and you wake it up again, the external screen doesn't connect. Let's hope it's just a couple of kernel updates down the line, but for now it 's fine. Not the biggest issues in everyday use.
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To be honest, the HP Zbook seem to have a couple of quirks my Lenovo doesn't have. It sometimes freezes under heavy graphical loads (like in a game) and when it has gone to sleep and you wake it up again, the external screen doesn't connect. Let's hope it's just a couple of kernel updates down the line, but for now it 's fine. Not the biggest issues in everyday use.
Audiosetup couldn't be easier on #LinuxAudio with Millisecond, follow the guide, mark your class compliant audio interface as Pro Audio in pavocontrol and you're ready to go.
This time I decided to just move over all folders related to plugins. I just connected the two laptops through ssh in Nautilus (Gnome Filebrowser), Couldn't be easier. Open the filebrowser, choose network, write ssh://(ip adress of old computer), type in the username and password on the old computer and start moving over.
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Audiosetup couldn't be easier on #LinuxAudio with Millisecond, follow the guide, mark your class compliant audio interface as Pro Audio in pavocontrol and you're ready to go.
This time I decided to just move over all folders related to plugins. I just connected the two laptops through ssh in Nautilus (Gnome Filebrowser), Couldn't be easier. Open the filebrowser, choose network, write ssh://(ip adress of old computer), type in the username and password on the old computer and start moving over.
Tip: When moving over big folders (like your wine-folder), compress it as a zip first. Sending one big file is easier than sending 400.000 files separate.
I tried this before with my old wine-cachyos setup, and it didn't work that well with licenses and audio plugins. But with the newest wine (standard) it's working without trouble so far. You just need to login to all the Windows installers, sign in and wait for it to figure out the computer has a new ID.
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Tip: When moving over big folders (like your wine-folder), compress it as a zip first. Sending one big file is easier than sending 400.000 files separate.
I tried this before with my old wine-cachyos setup, and it didn't work that well with licenses and audio plugins. But with the newest wine (standard) it's working without trouble so far. You just need to login to all the Windows installers, sign in and wait for it to figure out the computer has a new ID.
@mosgaard rsync can come handy when moving a lot of files, if you don't mind the CLI
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Tip: When moving over big folders (like your wine-folder), compress it as a zip first. Sending one big file is easier than sending 400.000 files separate.
I tried this before with my old wine-cachyos setup, and it didn't work that well with licenses and audio plugins. But with the newest wine (standard) it's working without trouble so far. You just need to login to all the Windows installers, sign in and wait for it to figure out the computer has a new ID.
The last thing is just to go through all my native linux plugins, and see which ones needs to be authorized.
I totally get why vendors need to protect their code sometimes, but authorizing every single plugin individually from a vendor is really tiring.
AudioThing has the best solution for this, since you can log in to your account and remember your AudioThing user, so it pops up automatically when opening a new plugin. Some use individual serial numbers for individual plugins...
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@mosgaard rsync can come handy when moving a lot of files, if you don't mind the CLI
@rhizome_industrie thanks! Using ssh in Nautilus is just too easy, so I'll live with zip files for now
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Decided it was time to move my music production activities to my backup refurbished laptop, since it's more quiet and generally faster. I have installed CachyOS/Gnome again and followed my own guide (I should blog some more, so I remember what worked for me).
Laptop is a HP ZBook 15 G6, 32 GB of memory, 1 TB HD, NVIDIA Quadro T2000 3GB. A beast for the price of 600 euro, and there is even room for more memory and hard drives with easy access from the bottom.
@mosgaard may i recommend creating a localhost Ansible playbook for configuring your machine, its a really nice way to "save its config"
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@mosgaard may i recommend creating a localhost Ansible playbook for configuring your machine, its a really nice way to "save its config"
@rasmus91 I haven’t heard of that yet. This is not something expect to do that often, maybe one or too times a year, would it be worth the effort?
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@rasmus91 I haven’t heard of that yet. This is not something expect to do that often, maybe one or too times a year, would it be worth the effort?
@mosgaard well, ansible is a tool to do infrastructure as code. So its basically a way to make your setup "replayable".
It's quite easy to get started with compared to all other such tools. And the lovely thing is; you generally just adjust it slightly between OS versions, and you're good to go.
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@rasmus91 I haven’t heard of that yet. This is not something expect to do that often, maybe one or too times a year, would it be worth the effort?
To me, it was.
You start your playbook small (add or remove a few packages), and then build up slowly. Initial run is to setup a system as you prefer. Later runs are to make sure the system is still in the desired state.
Take a look at my repository on Codeberg:
