11 Dec
2017
11 Dec
'17
9:34 p.m.
On 11. des. 2017 20:19, Len Ovens wrote:
The Ubuntu LTS seems a good deal, but there are not a lot of people
working on keeping things specific to audio in best running order. In
particular the version of jackd has from time to time been broken
(though it seems just fine these days). The focus of Ubuntu is servers
and desktop. Those parts will work well. I personally would use Ubuntu
rather than a derivitive of Ubuntu which tends to be behind Ubuntu. But
though I do use Ubuntu now and have been since 2010-ish. I am thinking
to change though I am still thinking what I should change to. I have
purposely chosen hardware that has open drivers so I don't need to
choose something that has blobs in the kernel. I personally have stayed
away from the Unity DE and find xfce to be the most stable and usable.
Lxde works as well but is not well polished and I would only use it if
my hardware forced me to. Also, be aware that Ubuntu is looking to stop
support for 32 bit system after 18.04. That is, 18.04 will be the last
LTS that comes with 32 bit kernels that are maintained by the ubuntu
kernel team. Lubuntu will (I believe) continue to offer 32 bit kernels
though.
I like the Ubuntu LTS option as well (currently running Ubuntu Studio
16.04). Usually lagging a bit, say a year, before installing on a
production machine (though my production is very modest).
There's a bi-annual (more or less) small pain of reinstalling and
re-configuring, requiring a few days before most stuff works without
hickups. I guess waiting longer between upgrades would mean spending
more time 'in configuration mode' - a less frequent but bigger pain ;-)
I never gave Unity a fair shot as I really like xfce - and those tweaks
added by the Ubuntu Studio team.
Alf