Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Pre-Installed Application Review

[Hank Stanglow]

On 5/12/20 8:45 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
I would rather answer a few more times why studio doesn't include 
Calf, that see them continuously recomended as first choice. I see 
Calf as a "well you can of course install them from the repos but we 
will not give support if you have trouble with them".


Interesting, I hadn't known about problems in Calf. They were the 
plugins I always used first because they had a good mix of sound, 
simplicity, and style, but now I use LSP and Xhip effects for everything 
because I either need something that is really detailed or really 
simple. However, I do like that Calf Fluidsynth frontend and their 
simple synths so I would definitely install Calf immediately on a new setup.


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Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Cosmic Release Notes

[Hank Stanglow]

On 10/17/2018 07:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Oct 17, 2018, at 4:34 PM, Ross Gammon wrote:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio

Hi,

just a warning regarding GIMP 2.10.6.

Two days ago I used it on Arch Linux. It's more or less unusable.
Oh wow, thanks for that important first hand account. I've been looking 
forward to GIMP 2.10 for several months. It's a HUGE release for them 
and I hope they get a stable version soon.


Thanks for all the hard work Ralf.

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Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, (Off Topic)

[Hank Stanglow]

On 09/24/2018 11:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:33:47 -0700, Hank Stanglow wrote:

Almost half the software I use for multimedia comes containerized
rather than from a traditional repository model -- that goes for an
Ardour subscription as well.

If Ardour should be installed to e.g. /opt and use static, instead of
shared libraries, it's not a container.


And there is also the WINE effect. It works really well these days. In
a lot of cases you can get a Windows "hassle free" audio experience in
a Linux OS, and you don't need a custom distribution for WINE.

I'm using wine-staging for gr-55_floorboard, since the Linux version is
unusable.

[weremouse@moonstudio ~]$ cat /mnt/archlinux/usr/local/bin/gr-55_floorboard_wine
#!/bin/dash
wine '/home/rocketmouse/.wine/drive_c/Program Files 
(x86)/GR-55FloorBoard/GR-55FloorBoard.exe' &
exit

However, this can't be compared with snaps. Btw. wine allows to install
the same software to one path by another, which could be useful for
troubleshooting.

I can't see how wine is related to snappy and Co., were not only
pro-audio is quasi unusable, but even a MUA such as Evolution only
works with crippled functionality, due to security restrictions, caused
by the container approach.



Thanks for your input Ralf, I apparently was not able to communicate my 
point and I don't want to get dragged into a back-and-forth on 
semantics. My point was simply that, as a multimedia producer, I find 
there are _many_ more options available today outside the "central 
repository" model than there were just a few years ago. This is a good 
thing for FOSS and seemingly a bad thing for Ubuntu Studio. Newest 
versions of the best FOSS multimedia software can be easily downloaded 
from their respective sites or installed via snaps or flatpacks, and in 
my experience they are all fairly stable on multiple desktop environments.


While audio was a the primary reason I initially chose Ubuntu Studio it 
wasn't the only reason. I also do graphics, photography, video, 3D 
modeling, and web development. Ubuntu Studio was a great fit for a 
while, but today I don't find themed distributions useful for my purposes.


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Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, (Off Topic)

[Hank Stanglow]

On 09/23/2018 07:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:09:33 -0700, Hank Stanglow wrote:

growing emphasis on Snaps

But even if you stay with Ubuntu and snaps, it's not easy to use it for
pro-audio software, if possible at all.

The point I was trying to make is the distribution model is changing. 
Flathub has a lot of options, and I've seen quite a few projects go for 
the self contained "Appimage" model (LMMS for example). Almost half the 
software I use for multimedia comes containerized rather than from a 
traditional repository model -- that goes for an Ardour subscription as 
well.


And there is also the WINE effect. It works really well these days. In a 
lot of cases you can get a Windows "hassle free" audio experience in a 
Linux OS, and you don't need a custom distribution for WINE.


This is just my experience and I can't speak for Ubuntu Studio users.

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Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

[Hank Stanglow]

Hi. I have been following Ubuntu Studio since 2011 and it holds a 
special place in my heart. I am sad to see development slow down, but I 
also feel like changes in the way software is packaged and distributed 
made this inevitable.


I stopped using Ubuntu Studio a couple years ago for a few reasons: 
there were some annoying bugs in XFCE/Thunar, I wanted more recent 
packages, and I wanted a better experience using non-gtk tools.


I do multimedia work and that's why I chose Ubuntu Studio. Having a good 
audio setup was important, but I also needed drawing and video tools as 
well. IMO, the best and most available FOSS tools for drawing and video 
are Krita and KdenLive, which were always buggy on gtk-based systems. 
However, with growing emphasis on Snaps and Flatpacks, software is 
becoming both distribution and desktop environment agnostic. These days 
a Linux user can get the best of everything regardless of their 
distribution of choice. And that, I think, makes me wonder if I will 
ever need Ubuntu Studio again. Even if Ubuntu Studio had a vibrant team 
to keep up this distribution the question "is it needed?" would still 
persist. Honestly, I don't even use KX Studio for audio anymore, so this 
is not a problem specific to Ubuntu Studio.


Everyone should feel great about the role Ubuntu Studio played in moving 
GNU/Linux/FOSS forward. Linux and Ubuntu are better than ever for 
multimedia artists like myself.


Thanks for everything!

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Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Wallpaper Contest for 18.10

[Hank Stanglow]

Em 16 de set de 2018 18:43, > escreveu:


Hi everyone,

Yesterday during our meeting, Eylul, Thomas (captain_tux) and I
narrowed the wallpaper contest entries down to these 20.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork/CosmicWallpaperFinalists


I will open the voting to the public with a Straw Poll that can be
found here: https://www.strawpoll.me/16471434


Multiple entries can be chosen, and the top 5 will be added to our
wallpapers.

Thanks everyone!
Erich



These look great! Some of the best art I've seen for Ubuntu Studio
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Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Considerations from a video and photo editing perspective.

[Hank Stanglow]

On 05/17/2018 08:28 AM, Len Ovens wrote:

On Wed, 16 May 2018, argumento wrote:
Also, I hate how ubuntu studio comes with a bunch of low quality free 
fonts, it makes it awkward to browse your font catalog. Maybe having 
less, but better fonts could help Ubuntu Studio be a better tool 
(anyway, anyone can get as many fonts as they want from dafont or 
-better- sites like Squirrel Font or Open Font, so less fonts might 
be a good way to go).
This I agree with even though I rarely do art or even formal text 
projects which need fonts. However, the few times I have used 
different fonts, I have fount it difficult to find anything. I have 
also stumbled on a lot that didn't look very nice. The idea of 
including lots of fonts was 12.*-ish as I recall.
The fonts was one of my complaints a few years ago and UbuntuStudio has 
greatly improved in this area. Most of the bad/redundant fonts come from 
Ubuntu. For example, on a fresh installation the family "Noto" takes up 
over a quarter of Inkscape's font selection tool -- there are like 60 
variants or something ridiculous. I understand the logic behind Ubuntu's 
choice to include several sans-serif fonts that are all pretty much the 
same, but I wish I didn't have to uninstall a dozen font packages 
whenever I do a fresh OS install.


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Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Our website

[Hank Stanglow]

Count me in with those who thing everything should be encrypted, 
including email and SMS. Now that Let's Encrypt exists I can't see any 
reason not to use https. I just did a nmap of ubuntustudio.org and see 
that it's running Apache 2.4.7 on Ubuntu which I believe means 14.04 
(Trusty). Setting up Let's Encrypt on 14.04 is a bit of a hassle. I 
tried it for a few days before giving up and upgrading my server to 
16.04 to use the new and improved letsencrypt tool. It's works almost 
perfectly, you just need to make a script and cron job to renew the 
certificate every three months (there is a plan to make newer versions 
of the letsencrypt utility environment aware).


I would definitely contact the ubuntustudio.org webmaster and discuss https.


On 05/30/2017 01:07 PM, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote:

Many feel that all of the Internet should move to https simply to remove
the usefulness of governmental bulk surveillance tools, many of which
cannot handle https for "off the wire" surveillance. Thus the existance of
things like the "https everywhere" extension for Firefox.

On 5/30/2017 at 3:12 PM, "Len Ovens"  wrote:

I had this conversation on IRC. Anyone know if this is a problem?
My web
understanding is old.


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Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio

[Hank Stanglow]

On 01/15/2017 01:10 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

The clueless user wants the Apple approach, the experienced user wants the 
Linux approach. Both have in common to follow a clear KISS principle. If you 
mix both approaches, the result is crap.
I must agree with Ralf on his assessment. When I first came to Linux is 
had a difficult time understanding what a sound server was let alone why 
there were so many In Linux. Win/Mac users never encounter this concept. 
Even now that I've been using Linux for years I think this new GUI tool 
is overly complicated. Is the user doing audio production with a DAW? 
Then start Jack automatically with sane defaults and bridge ALSA and 
Pulse. Is the user primarily using media players to listen to music and 
watch videos? Default to Pulse. The rest, IMO, would be considered a 
system tweak for advanced users (and should be clearly labeled as such).


That said, I think it is great to have a set-up wizard like this and I 
am delighted to see it happening. Personally, I do all my audio using 
wine-rt and it would be great is there was a setting to automatically 
set this up as well, and I'm sure a lot of users coming from Windows 
would appreciate it.


Keep up the good work.

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Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] support for wine-rt out-of-box?

[Hank Stanglow]

On 08/20/2016 07:45 AM, Len Ovens wrote:

Adding Wine or Wine-RT to Studio is not a smooth easy thing to do.
Thanks to everyone for the helpful info. I agree that WINE-rt is not the 
best solution, but for my workflow it saves me the trouble of dual 
booting or running a VM. I admit the state of Linux audio is 
tremendously better than when I came to this community years ago. I keep 
abreast of new developments via the Linux Musicians forum and regularly 
try new plugins and DAW releases. Hopefully one day I can completely 
abandon Windows binaries for audio. We're just not there yet.


I will look into creating a guide for WINE-rt installation. I'll have to 
make one for myself anyway because my notes are a mess.


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[ubuntu-studio-devel] support for wine-rt out-of-box?

[Hank Stanglow]

Hello, I am a Web Developer, Artist, Musician, and long time user of 
Ubuntu Studio. You guys do a great job! This distribution gives me the 
best out-of-box experience for Web Development and I find the Art and 
Publishing tools perfectly adequate for my needs. Music and Video? Not 
so much, but this a problem for all Linux distributions. In fact, after 
seven years of fumbling with the JACK/ALSA/Pulse nightmare I've given up 
using native tools and now use WINE exclusively for audio work. Even KX 
Studio has more problems than I care to deal with and the only thing I 
take from its repos is wine-rt. If I were to make ONE suggestion for 
Ubuntu Studio it would be to have a super stable, low-latency WINE-rt 
environment for audio users (or good instructions on how to set one up).


That said, I am currently NOT using Ubuntu Studio as of 16.04. This is 
because of one reason only, that is, too many bugs in Thunar. I know 
could install a different tool (pcmanfm is great), but the file manager 
is an integral part of a system and I really love Thunar above others. I 
also know this has nothing to do with Ubuntu Studio. I hope the 
XFCE/Thunar team can quickly fix their wonderful DE. As soon as they do 
I will be back with Ubuntu Studio. In the meantime I am using Ubuntu 
MATE, which is pretty good! Has you ever considered a MATE version? 
Though I imagine it would be impractical to support two desktop 
environments...


Thanks for your hard work and have a super day,
Hank

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