[LAU] AVL2018 first impressions

[Dale Powell]

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> Doesn't prompt for locale settings on install and there is no language and locale in the Settings.

I'll argue that this is a feature. If it is music production that you
are after, learn some basic English. That helps across the board.

Also most music-software and plugins etc are not translated to begin
with, so you would end up with an odd language mix.

I am English. But I'm certainly not American! Plus no matter what your language you're still going to want to type track names etc with the keys on your keyboard where you expect them to be! Then as I'm sure you are aware there are other differences such as way dates and numbers are displayed which there is no reason to not have set as the user desires and to refer to the lack of this as a feature is rather silly IMO.

> My root password works fine when issuing commands (such as apt update) in the terminal but it does not accept it as being the correct password when trying the GUI settings features such as those found in AV Linux Assistant (also tried the default one from the manual and that doesn't work either.) Tried at least 20 times!
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> And this is just what I've found in 10 minutes! Am I missing something or is it really a pretty much unusable distro??


>You went way to deep :) The point of AVLinux is to be an appliance:
Boot, make music. Don't even bother to customize or update the system.

I do hope you're joking! 😲

>If you do want spend time customizing the OS and/or Desktop environment,
other distros are more appropriate. KXStudio perhaps.

Been using Ubuntu Studio for a few years but every so often I like to try the other options out there and see if anything will tempt me away as it is far from perfect. (Plus usually every time I install something I learn something new, which is good.)


>The Touchpad not working OOTB is a bummer though. What hardware were you
testing this with?

>Would you mind reporting a bug at http://bandshed.net/forum/index.php ?

HP Elitebook 840 G2.

I can find you quite a few references stating that XFCE doesn't work well with the new xorg driver for the touchpad and you do already have both xorg-input and synaptic drivers installed, I guess to try and mitigate this. Xubuntu has gone back to Synaptic because of this (Studio hasn't as it forked while Xubuntu was still using xorg driver and the devs must have missed this bug so I had to change it myself when I installed 18.04.

Will go to register and report now.

Dale.
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