do people still use Ubuntu or is something else now popular?

[junklight@mastodon.art]

@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

[ki@chaos.social]

@junklight
sorry, I misunderstood your question

I've seen CachyOS recommended a lot over the past years, seems to be the latest hot shit

[bit101@mstdn.social]

@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.

[junklight@mastodon.art]

@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@mastodon.art]

@bit101 I do know Jack a bit so at least its not ALL new

[bit101@mstdn.social]

@junklight I guess I can't say "you don't know jack"

[junklight@mastodon.art]

@bit101

[ki@chaos.social]

@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@mastodon.art]

@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

[philcowans@universeodon.com]

@junklight @linuxaudiodevelopment - I've switched back to #Debian recently, which is (almost) where I started, almost 30 years ago.

[junklight@mastodon.art]

@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?

[fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz]

@philcowans @junklight @linuxaudiodevelopment based

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@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.

@philcowans @linuxaudiodevelopment

[bedhead@bark.wolp.chat]

@ki@chaos.social @junklight@mastodon.art

idk which distro uses what, but qpwgraph is pretty cool

[bedhead@bark.wolp.chat]

@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

[junklight@mastodon.art]

@bedhead @ki ah cool - sounds interesting!!

[philcowans@universeodon.com]

@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.

[philcowans@universeodon.com]

@junklight @linuxaudiodevelopment - I should add that I haven't used it for serious audio work, so can't directly comment on that.

[junklight@mastodon.art]

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!)

@linuxaudiodevelopment

[ki@chaos.social]

@bedhead @junklight
I used to use Carla, but nowadays I just wire everything using Ardour, which runs much more stable