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