[LAU] Ubuntu slowing down when using Ardour

[Neil C Smith]

Hi,

On 19 November 2012 19:14, Aurélien Leblond <blablack at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using 12.10 because of other issues in 12.04 (especially USB soundcard
> requiring a higher kernel to run ok).
> Over the past 2 years I am having this laptop, I haven't been able to get a
> single stable version of Ubuntu for playing music:
> - Soundcard not supported
> - EHCI not supporting USB 2.0 soundcard
> - XHCI not supporting USB 2.0 soundcard
> - Compiz being too slow
> - FGLRX creating xrun

Sounds like you're having fun! :-)  There are backports of more recent
kernels to 12.04, which might be another option for you.  I've read so
many early issues with 12.10 around graphics ...

On 11/19/12, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> it's always possible to install the studio meta packages to any other Ubuntu install.

I started off with that but found it dated and unstable compared to
getting stuff from the KXStudio's PPAs.  YMMV.

>> On 11/19/12, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>> [SNIP]
>> Pff, Unity IMO is the most worse desktop environment I've ever seen.
>> I suspect that somebody who likes Unity, would have a very unusual audio
>> production work-flow,
>> so any recommendation might be counterproductive regarding to the OP's
>> needs.
>
> Opinionated nonsense is probably the most counterproductive response
> in general, regardless of the OPs needs.
> Especially when the OP specifically and politely requested that
> discussion of desktop preference be avoided.

More to the point, the OP specifically stated liking to use it, so how
about keeping your thinly veiled prejudices about our abnormal
workflows to yourself, Ralf?! :-P

Best wishes,

Neil

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