On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Peter Lutek wrote: would you be kind enough to outline your "conversion" procedure? In general, this means back up what you have, install new OS, restore at least your home directories, then install any binaries you have of specific software (Ardour, plugins, synths) if you choose (though I think Arch has most things you would need as packages) and go. Be aware that you would either choose to install the same DE as you were using before or get used to another. XFCE is quite a stable and versitile DE (Gnome2 like) that doesn't get in the way of audio or video production. If you happened to be using Unity as your DE (what were you thinking!?) you would have to learn to use a new DE (but then Ubuntu has given up on Unity too so the same either way) A common method in Linux is to use two partitions (or more), One small one 40G for the OS and a big partition for /home. I actually have a number of 20G partitions to try various OS but in the last while have been finding that cramped which is why I am suggesting 40G :) This makes it easy to install a new OS to try out without disturbing your data. On 2018-01-08 08:01 AM, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: >> ... I just converted a heavily-used Manjaro/XFCE4 desktop, two years in >> use and regularly updated, into a Linux audio testing machine, without >> glitches. >>