Gustin Johnson wrote: > I don't have this experience. I use Linux everyday for media related > stuff, from grabbing podcasts via Amarok, to transcoding videos for my > blackberry, to watching TV shows (downloaded or transcoded from my > mythtv machine), to recording, mixing, arranging or just playing music > through my 64Studio or Ubuntu machines. > > By contrast, my Windows XP computer can not play MP3s or DVDs whenever I > do a fresh install. I have to go and install a codec pack like CCCP > (Combined Community Codec Pack) which is of dubious legality. I also > have to trust that the CCCP folks are not putting malware into the > download, I also have to buy and install a decent AV package (AVG has > missed a couple of virii lately, so I am unwilling to trust it). >
I don't know if Windows is fine with my mobo, I don't had any troubles when using Windows with my old mobo, but I didn't used Windows very often. With my old mobo it was possible to make music with Windows and impossible to do it with Linux. With my new mobo it seems to be the same. I will see what will happen after I updated the BIOS and try Suse 11.0 with Qtractor and a downgraded Fluidsynth. Maybe I don't need to use cracks for multimedia, when using Windows, but I guess I will use a Windows without licence. If I have to use Windows, I will install AntiVir to one of my Linux. http://www.free-av.de/en/download/download_servers.php I would never install anything to Windows, that isn't scanned by the AntiVir version for Linux before. Apart from ethics and the advantages of the KDE, IMO a virus can be the only handicap for Windows. > Again, none of this is a requirement for this project, it would just take a > lot longer to render. > Independent of the used OS it might be useful to have two computers, one for rendering and another for working, while one Computer is rendering. > I have also found that some programs like Inkscape and Gimp work better > under linux I never used GIMP and Inkscape under Windows, but if I need to install a Windows, I would install GIMP too, because I prefer to use GIMP instead of Photoshop. Inkscape might be interesting, if I will do animations, but for all day work, I prefer a pixel oriented application. To install Windows for music, does not mean, that I have to use GIMP with Windows too. > than they do under windows. VMware workstation is also a > lot faster when I use Linux as the host OS. From my rough calculations > there is 10-30% IO penalty under Windows. YMMV. > I only know virtual box under Linux. It might be interesting if there is a way to include JAMin and Jconv to an audio Windows by a virtual machine. > ATI provides a binary only (fglrx) driver just like nvidia does. You may > wish to try it. Video performance with the VESA driver is not really > acceptable to me. Of course binary drivers may cause issues with RT > kernels. Oh the joys. > I guess I had to change some default settings, but if the codec is fine for 64-bit Linux, the video performance is fine by using the VESA driver. I only have problems with the refresh frequency and I can't use 3D and true transparency. > Depends on the adaptor. If you are not using some binary drivers there > should be no issues with the video adaptor, onboard or otherwise. > I still was hoping someone writes, that exactly the problems I have got can happen, because of the framebuffer that takes RAM from the main memory. I didn't ask this the first time, but I never get the hoped-for answer. >> Is it really absurd to hope a 32-bit Linux might be fine on my machine, >> while 64-bit Linux aren't fine for some needed applications? >> > I am not sure what you mean by this? > Some people don't like 64-bit, because there should be a lot of troubles, e.g. for codecs and some applications. I don't know which applications, shouldn't be fine with 64-bit. Maybe a 32-bit Linux is more compatible for some hardware. Just hearsay rumours? I heard that it might be better to run a 32-bit Linux on a 64-bit machine, without any plausible argumentation, excepted of the codec problem, that isn't relevant for MIDI and PCM recording. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm thinking of energyXT2, because when using this, I can often test if Linux will be fine with MIDI and if it isn't, I can end a song that was started under Linux, by going on under Windows. Why are you having a Windows install, when you don't have serious problems with Linux? I guess your Windows install is a 32-bit Windows, XP pro with or without MCE, but not a 64-bit Vista? I now will take a look if Lenny is stable and if there is Suse 11.1, I have seen a headline on some German Linux mag saying something like this.
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