[LAU] arch users?

[Atte André Jensen]

Josh Lawrence wrote:

> for my birthday present to myself (shameless birthday plug),

I installed arch last summer and just switched back to ubuntu.

For my needs it seems ubuntu performs just as well as arch (I'm even 
running the standard ubuntu kernel here), and running the more 
non-standard selection of software I had going under arch means little 
strange things keeps poping up.

Like, not being able to get in contact with renoise after a fast render 
to disc.

Like not being able to compile a working miniAudicle.

Like my beloved transcribe! segfaulting.

Like wines jack output suddenly not working anymore.

These problems are not archs fault, more a result of the bleeding edge 
nature of an arch box. But for now I decided my life is too short to 
stuff like that. I need my tools (renoise, miniAudicle and transcribe! 
for instance) to work, I am willing to invest an reasonable amount of 
time in getting there, but I was getting nowhere.

Basically in my experience, a rt configured (limits.conf + user in audio 
group) ubuntu with all the bells and whistles (gnome, compiz, tons of 
deamons) performs just as well in real time as the bare bone arch.

Happy birthday and good luck!

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Atte

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