[LAU] Ubuntu slowing down when using Ardour

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 22:25 +0000, Neil C Smith wrote:
> 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.

I never heard something bad about KXStudio, but theoretically third
party packages could conflict with Ubuntu packages. I experienced the
dated apps from Ubuntu Studio as stable, OTOH sometimes I build some
apps myself.
Usually I recommend to use Ubuntu Studio, but in this case not, because
not everybody has got the same work-flow and ...

> >> 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

... using Unity does lead to an unusual work-flow. That doesn't mean
that an unusual work-flow is bad.
You do the value judgement, please don't put misrepresented words in my
mouth. It's really sick and I only know such behavior from Linux mailing
list.

Regards,
Ralf