On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 11:35 -0600, Jason Harrer wrote: > Being a musician and recording using Linux audio, I can concur that > Arch Ian't the best distro to start with. It's great to use when you > know what you're doing, though. > > I don't know if you're familiar with KX Studio, but it may be a better > alternative. It currently is set up through Ubuntu PPAs, but the > developer is in the process of transitioning to a Debian repo/PPA (I > don't recall what Debian uses) for the same reason you cited. I > recommend giving that one a look. > My audio distro already is Arch Linux. I was thinking of making a distro for newbies. I'm using Linux for audio for around 10 years. I still would recommend Ubuntu Studio to newbies, without KX Studio PPA, but with building a real-time kernel, removing pulseaudio and all those software centre, updater crap. Ubuntu Studio is a very good distro. IIRC the poll at Linux Audio User mailing list showed that most people use Ubuntu Studio and/or Arch Linux for audio usage. IMO Ubuntu makes a step into the wrong direction, so nobody does know how long Ubuntu Studio will be a good audio distro. However, I agree that not only providing an audio distro based on Arch is much work, but also giving support, so I decided, that my idea isn't good. I wasn't thinking about the support and already uncertain, if it's worse the effort to make a distro without support. Support is needed and I guess we are to few people to do that. So, the thread can be closed. Thank you all for the hints. Special thanks again to Oon-Ee Ng who mentions support and trouble-shooting services. Regards, Ralf
