[LAU] Audio distros

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:14:12 +0100, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> No clue how they'll do. I prefer Debian Sid
>
>
> I don't know the current state of KDE4, but some time ago I used an older
> KDE4, not for audio and it was ok. I don't like the design, but the workflow
> is ok and it had no performance issues.
>
> I want some clear words about break outs in new directions from the distros.
>
> E.g. on Arch it makes me wonder that people using X, need to pull in
> Wayland. This is like installing init and getting systemd as a dependency. I
> can live with systemd and perhaps I can live with Wayland, but I won't
> unclear transitions, that cause issues.
>
> For Ubuntu I guess the direction is clear, they will build a distro with
> shops, unusable DEs, similar to tablet PC stuff. The users are free to
> remove Unity and to install another DE, but the DE then will be buggy. My
> MUA for Quantal already doesn't work anymore.
>
> Debian Sid might be ok, I just have no good feelings regarding to the state
> "unstable".

I've had pretty good luck with Fedora 18. I've tried all the desktops
and the lightest thing I've found that actually has most of the
comforts of home is OpenBox with the fbpanel Menu/Panel/Taskbar/Clock
add-on.
>
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