[linux-audio-user] Some various questions about system configuration..

laulist at mondoseo.com laulist at mondoseo.com
Fri Feb 3 01:25:39 EST 2006


> What you're missing is that the people just now trying Linux are
> not "we".  "We" buy our computers to run Linux.  Everyone else
> buys their computers to "do stuff."  Whichever does a better job
> of what they want to do, Windows or Linux or whatever, is what
> they're going to use.

I'm struggling with this myself at the moment. I'm a Linux user and have 
been for 5 years, and recently decided I want to make some videos. I am 
delving into Linux audio and video and finding lots of great work and 
interesting projects, but ... I just want to make videos, not spend a good 
deal of my time fiddling with Linux AS WELL AS making videos.

So I'm considering MacOS X just to get the work done, hopefully I can 
focus primarily on the product I want to create and not the tools I use to 
create it. Whatever happens, I'll also continue to use Linux where I can 
and encourage others to do so wherever appropriate, and to learn as much 
as I can about audio/video on Linux.

Somebody today told me about a perspective on Linux that supposedly 
originated with Mark Shuttleworth:

There are 3 levels of Linux use -
(1) basic web, email, word processing etc
(2) professional activities requiring use of more specialised software and 
hardware
(3) high-end scientific/engineering stuff

In his opinion, Linux is great for levels 1 and 3, it is in level 2 that a 
lot of frustration is found. I think audio/video is a level 2 activity.

Anyway,

Mick



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