I've been using Linux (along with Windows) for about 15 years now, and Ubuntu is certainly and the easiest and top-down most flexible distro I've used. I do find Jack difficult to set up, and Audacity is still, for me, problematic; a lot of the effects have unlabeled parameters, and, at least on my machines, things like simple reverb resonance become difficult. And video is still extremely difficult to edit; if it wasn't, I'd switch off Windows completely. The advantage of Windows is cheapness and the variety of programs available - these are really useful for text modification, among other things. Linux runs incredibly lean; I'm working now on an old notebook with 2 gigs of ram, slow processor, and 40 gig harddrive, and it runs Second Life fine (with Ubuntu 10+). I also have Linux on two old Asus 701 eee PC netbooks (this was the first netbook model); the Asus native Linux works really well (a form of Debian), and Ubuntu Linux runs, but a bit slower. I'd definitely recommend anyone working in music or text or mathematics/science to try Ubuntu or another flavor on an older machine at the least; the results might amaze you.
- Alan On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, marc garrett wrote: > Here?s a switcher story of a different color: from the Mac, to Linux. > It?s one thing to talk about operating systems and free software in > theory, or to hear from died-in-the-wool advocates of their platform of > choice. In this case, we turn to Kim Cascone, an experienced and gifted > musician and composer with an impressive resume of releases and a rich > sens of sound. This isn?t someone advocating any platform over another: > it?s an on-the-ground, in-the-trenches, real-world example of how Kim > made this set of tools work in his music, in the studio and on tour. A > particular thanks, as he?s given me some new ideas for how to work with > Audacity and Baudline. Kim puts his current setup in the context of > decades of computer work. Even if you?re not ready to leave Mac (or > Windows) just yet, Kim?s workflow here could help if you?re looking to > make a Linux netbook or laptop more productive in your existing rig. > > http://tinyurl.com/5rwvn6g > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
