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Post by AndruJorj on Apr 25, 2020 19:41:23 GMT -5
Who else uses GNU/Linux? Which distro? What is your workflow like? What software do you use? Which difficulties have you conquered, and which have conquered you? Tips? Tricks? Recommendations or suggestions?
This thread is the place to discuss GNU/Linux.
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Post by crystallogic13 on Apr 26, 2020 1:01:50 GMT -5
I love it for being there in its countless distros and endless purposes but honestly, personally I can't stand to use it for any normal home daily activity. I still have Ubuntu on a laptop I installed back in 2013-15 since I needed to use gcc for some C compiling and other Computer Science stuff I had to do back then for my MSc, but other than that, Linux (if something hasn't changed drastically) makes it hard to do even the most simple of stuff, let alone trying for example to find drivers for anything and make it work (printer,scanner etc).. I love it for being there as an option but last time I checked it was not for me and my home/personal use..
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Post by windgeist on Apr 26, 2020 1:30:45 GMT -5
I use Linux for all my daily computing since circa 9 years. It is for sure not the right thing for everyone, but I prefere an open system with all it's edges over a ultra shiny Windows 10 or OSX that tries to hide as much as possible from the user.
That being said I'm mostly stick with the different Ubuntu variants, because they simply work for me. And I stoped doing all this crazy distro hopping (all people In the Linux community seem to do) already years ago.
Sadly I can't tell you much about audio production (I just started experimenting a bit), besides the fact that I had some problems with crackeling midi sound at the beginning. I don't really was able to solve this, it just dosn't seem to happen if I use LMMS so I stick with this. But there are a lot other midi tools in the ubuntu repos and I only tried a few, so who knows ...
Beside LMMS I only use Audacity now. But this tool seems to be fairly known and widely used by people on this board. I only can say: It's good in doing what it was made for and I like usin it.
That's my 2 cents on this topic.
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Post by anfortas on Apr 26, 2020 3:32:18 GMT -5
I only have very little experience with Linux, and only use it on the PCs at the observatory, when I need something done for my study, that requires Linux. There are some astronomical programms, that are designed to be used in Linux, and it is a hard task to get them to work in Windows. Maybe some day, I will find the motivation to install Linux on my laptop, so I can use these programms at home, but I doubt I would do so, before it is absolutelly necessary.
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Post by MvcvrvmSangvis on May 27, 2020 17:50:34 GMT -5
i've been using Debian Buster for quite a while, and i have to say it's my favorite distro, after testing a considerable deal of others. I don't mind having trouble with a couple of things if this means that i'll be free from all the updates and bloatware stuff Windows seems to shove down my throat. Also, i feel that i have more power over my computer. On the other hand, with distros like Mint, Ubuntu/Kubuntu and MX Linux available, i don't know why people are so afraid of switching off to Linux-based systems. (Plus, you will learn useful things, and as a matter of fact, my contact with the GNU/Linux made me want to learn basic skills in Python).
As for audio production, this year i was, for the most part, successful in recording guitars and setting up drum machines through Ardour and Hydrogen in Debian. This way i could send demo songs over to my bandmates for a grindcore project. I'm currently quarantined away from home and i'm no longer able to play my instruments, so it's been several months since i last used software to record stuff.
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Post by windgeist on May 28, 2020 23:56:24 GMT -5
It's maybe a bit off topic but I just stumbled over an interesting open source software called Jamulus. It allows musicans to play music together online. I didn't try it myself so far, but from what others tell, it seem to work really good. Maybe an interesting option for some people at this dofficult times right now.
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Post by thekeeper on May 29, 2020 22:47:59 GMT -5
I used to use Linux more much more than I do now. I've used X/Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, Bunsen Labs, and a couple others, but at one point I just settled on Debian since it has very good software compatibility with minimal bloat and a huge support community. I just use it on one of my laptops. I use windows 7 on my desktop, Debian on a thinkpad x220, and then I have my old school win98se desktop, a win98 thinkpad, an a lenovo chromebook. I haven't done a whole lot of music production on my debian laptop, but when I have, it's been through LMMS and Audacity. I've used FL Studio since like 2005 and LMMS was pretty easy to pickup since it seems to be modeled after FL Studio. Audacity is Audacity, I'm sure everyone's used it at some point, ha. Most of my music making though involves my desktop, but still using Audacity for simple recording without a ton of editing (I use Mixcraft otherwise). It's maybe a bit off topic but I just stumbled over an interesting open source software called Jamulus. It allows musicans to play music together online. I didn't try it myself so far, but from what others tell, it seem to work really good. Maybe an interesting option for some people at this dofficult times right now.
This seems odd but I'm intrigued. I wonder what the input lag is like.
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Post by MvcvrvmSangvis on May 30, 2020 12:10:35 GMT -5
I used to use Linux more much more than I do now. I've used X/Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, Bunsen Labs, and a couple others, but at one point I just settled on Debian since it has very good software compatibility with minimal bloat and a huge support community. I just use it on one of my laptops. I use windows 7 on my desktop, Debian on a thinkpad x220, and then I have my old school win98se desktop, a win98 thinkpad, an a lenovo chromebook. I haven't done a whole lot of music production on my debian laptop, but when I have, it's been through LMMS and Audacity. I've used FL Studio since like 2005 and LMMS was pretty easy to pickup since it seems to be modeled after FL Studio. Audacity is Audacity, I'm sure everyone's used it at some point, ha. Most of my music making though involves my desktop, but still using Audacity for simple recording without a ton of editing (I use Mixcraft otherwise). It's maybe a bit off topic but I just stumbled over an interesting open source software called Jamulus. It allows musicans to play music together online. I didn't try it myself so far, but from what others tell, it seem to work really good. Maybe an interesting option for some people at this dofficult times right now.
This seems odd but I'm intrigued. I wonder what the input lag is like. Have you had any experiences with Ardour? Strange how i've never came across this LMMS. I will definitely check it out.
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Post by windgeist on May 30, 2020 13:26:59 GMT -5
LMMS is a great tool! I just used it to make my first EP. I think it has a very intuitive UI (at least for me). There should be a version in the Debian repos or you install it from flathub.
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Post by MvcvrvmSangvis on May 31, 2020 9:50:05 GMT -5
LMMS is a great tool! I just used it to make my first EP. I think it has a very intuitive UI (at least for me). There should be a version in the Debian repos or you install it from flathub. Downloaded LMMS yesterday from the DEBIAN rep! The version available is not the latest but it's great nevertheless! I tried to compose an EBM song just to test the software and the result was nice
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