Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Hi, > > I gave 64studio 3 beta a quick shot. I must say, as a musician I'm a bit > disappointed. I did really tested the performance, I do believe this is > a strong point of 64studio. > sorry is should be, I did not really tested ;)
> Lay-out: > - I didn't like the wallpaper and didn't have a few options to change > it, without having to download stuff. > - after login I got an brown screen, not very polished. > - The menu looks like Linux has been standing still in the last 10 > years. I would prefer a opensuse gnome main menu, with favorite apps and > a search function. > > conservative: > - lilypond, a core app for musicians, is outdated. A distro for > musicians should have a stable and recent Lilypond imho. Lilypond users > advices 2.12. > - no wysiwyg notation editor like NtEd or Musescore > - No tools to make working with lilypond more easy, like Frescobaldi > (which I prefer) or Jedit with lilypondtool or denemo > - no Ardour with LV2 (I expect to have Ardour 2.8 with FST and LV2 in 3.0) > - (no easy way to enable VST? dssi-vst, wine, wineasio?) > - no LV2 plugins > - no LV2 apps like zynjacku > - (btw is jconv installed?) > > Not many app choices: > - I really do miss qtractor being installed as default. It's one of the > fine apps in linux audio (easy gui for example compared to Rosegarden). > Moreover I don't seems to have a change to install it even from the > sources.list!! > - LMMS is not installed by default. LMMS is an app to create music fast > and easy. Those installed plugins and instrument are handy to use with > other apps like Qtractor. Moreover I don't seems to have a change to > install it even from the sources.list!! > - It seems I have not very many choices to install different dssi plugins. > - No guitar software at all. No rakarrack which is a pretty decent app. > No guitarix, no tuxguitar for tablature notation. > - no metronome which works with Jack, like klick and its gui gtklick. > - no mixer, like jack_mixer > > muldimedia player: > - why totem and not mplayer or vlc (which could work nice with jack)? > > Configuration: > - Why relatime? Isn't it better to have noatime for audio? > > Why should I choose 64studio instead of default Ubuntu or Debian? Ok, > the configuration is nice, but it does seems to narrow my possibilities > as a musician instead of extent and improve it! :/ > > I suggest to: > - add some apps like I mentioned. > - make it possible for users by default to install additional audio apps > (like it is possible in normal Ubuntu). Moreover, make sure there is > more choice then in plain Ubuntu and make sure those packages in the > repo are up-to-date. > - Don't be to conservative and encourage for example new developments > like LV2, wysiwyg notation editor etc. > > Kind regards, > > \r > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 64studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users > > _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
