On 13-10-13 03:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I agree, ease of use and ease of learning are two different things. Try running a computer store around the time that DOS based Windows was dominant, and telling people that you can't really have a machine that will 'last five years'. Or worse explaining why when junior put the game on the system, Wordperfect doesn't work because the drivers were replaced with conflicting drivers. This was a completely different soup, but similar enough ingredients.Send ubuntu-studio-users mailing list submissions to [email protected]To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-studio-users digest..."
My comments were assuming (dangerous ass word) that it was someone like me who is fairly technical in background, and yes I can switch my own desktop, or follow the cut and pastes that are out there. CLI doesn't scare me in the least.
The people who want a machine 'to last five years' (be relevant and up to date) probably aren't the market for any 'Nix. Stay away, its voodoo.
The people that Ubuntu and particularly specific flavours of Ubuntu like Ubuntustudio are aimed at can fend for themselves as a rule. I would hope so, but I am seeing some people that are just are playing with it to see what it is. Some who by all indicators are interested in just dancing to the music it makes out of the box, in other words, "it should......"
Must drive programmers and distributions crazy that monitor this stuff and try to listen. Also I run the risk of sounding like one of those, at least to an extent.
I am saying specifically this. Ubuntu vanilla flavour takes a lot of work to get it to a state where you would like it to be for audio (my discipline) and you end up with Ubuntustudio (settings and everything probably come from the packages) maybe you have your desktop, but in all essence yes.
As I have been saying most studios are for recording, period. Anything from a bird chirping to a tuba. Though most probably record music. There are divisions within studio's, some are broadcast, some are meant for acoustic, some are for mastering and the list goes on. I am not so unrealistic as to say that a complete mastering studio should be installable out of the box, but some of the things you never use, such as a guitar box should be easily removable, preferably not at all when your installing to begin with.
So what I have been talking about is an interactive install. Something like "No command line programs, no synths (or all syths), no ladspa plugins, some plugins for eq only. The user then builds a system more likely to be closer to actual use.
That perhaps is a little different than ease of use. Instead of 10 synths or trackers, all recording programs, or all FOSS. The user decides and may have a little help with the most likely programs to fit the need. But isn't left with a long list of programs likely to never be used.
Ubuntustudio has the least unwieldy menus of all. My comments stemmed from the idea it could focus a bit further than it does, but thats up to the maintainers of the distribution. It was and remains not a should do this or should do that. I think I may know better to suggest that.
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