On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 19:30:43 +0200, Juan BioSound wrote: Hi, Arch Linux always is a "custom Linux", there is nothing such as a default Arch Linux. By it's policy it e.g. doesn't start a service, when installing a package providing a service. A default install even does come without a graphical environment. You could install Ubuntu from the server image, by even disabling a lot of the packages provided by it's installer, then you would get also an install even without a graphical environment, but services automagically get started, even if they should be counterproductive for your purpose. The _A_rch _U_ser _R_epository provides a well maintained linux-rt, official Ubuntu repositories linux-lowlatency. Arch is a rolling release and Ubuntu Studio, as an official Ubuntu flavour is a release model distro, with different policies for the official repositories. "Main – Officially Supported, Open-Source Software: Licence: Open Source Updates: Canonical provides critical updates. Restricted – Officially Supported, Closed-Source Software: Licence: Proprietary Updates: Canonical provides critical updates supplied by the developers. Universe – Community-Maintained, Open-Source Software: Licence: Open source Updates: Canonical does not provide update. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community. Multiverse – Unsupported, Closed-Source and Patent-Encumbered Software: Licence: Unknown Updates: Canonical does not provide updates. Some updates may be provided by Ubuntu community." - https://askubuntu.com/questions/58364/whats-the-difference-between-multiver… Some software isn't provided at all regarding Ubuntu's policy (resp. Debian's policy, since Debian is Ubuntu's upstream), while there isn't such a restriction for Arch Linux, e.g. see [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# lsb_release -a LSB Version: 1.4 Distributor ID: Arch Description: Arch Linux Release: rolling Codename: n/a [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -Si linuxsampler | head Repository : community Name : linuxsampler Version : 2.1.0-2 Description : Professional-grade audio sampler alternative to Gigasampler Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://www.linuxsampler.org/ Licenses : custom Groups : pro-audio Provides : None Depends On : libgig jack sqlite Ubuntu as well as Debian spilt software from upstream to several packages, Arch Linux usually doesn't, so e.g. header files are usually not provided by a separated package. Ubuntu's as well as Arch's package management provide options to automagically handle packages, see e.g. Ubuntu comes with helpers such as dpkg-divert... [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio man dpkg-divert | grep DES -A 5 DESCRIPTION dpkg-divert is the utility used to set up and update the list of diversions. File diversions are a way of forcing dpkg(1) not to install a file into its location, but to a diverted location. Diversions can be used through the Debian package scripts to move a file away when it causes a conflict. System administrators can also use it to override some package's configuration file, or whenever some files (which aren't marked as "conf- files") need to be preserved by dpkg, when installing a newer version of a package which contains those files. ...Arch Linux provides pacman.conf with e.g. an option to skip files from being installed. AVLinux is a Debian derivative http://lmgtfy.com/?q=avlinux , so it has got a smaller community, less developers etc., I doubt that this is "better", it's different. You might want to join https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-proaudio https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users Regards, Ralf -- pacman -Q linux{,-rt{,-securityink,-cornflower,-pussytoes}}|cut -d\ -f2 4.17.3-1 4.16.15_rt7-1 4.16.12_rt5-1 4.16.8_rt3-1 4.14.34_rt27-1