>> Out of interest, what problems do you have with ubuntu studio?
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> It's buggy as hell, the LTS still is ok, but Quantal already is a PITA and Ubuntu seems to go a way, I'm not willing to go. I'm not interested in app shops, Amazon etc.. Even if you can't find it for Ubuntu Studio, it's based on a distro that does go this way. FWIW Quantal from the Ubuntu Studio install media is more buggy, than Quantal from the Ubuntu install media + Xfce and the studio meta packages on my machine.

That's not my experience. Not seen any major bugs with 12.10 that I can think of. Care to elaborate? Hard to suggest anything without specifics.

James