Hi Karen, strictly on-topic, regarding the subject "which lau distro is more commandline friendly?" All well known Linux distros, including the mentioned audio distros provide easy access to the command line. All allow to access a terminal and all default to bash for the login shell. From this point of view, it makes no difference which distro you chose from the well known distros, since from this point of view all those distros and all their releases are "command line friendly". >From the point of view, what distro to chose, to compile software from upstream, there are differences, since distros have different policies. I don't know the defaults of the audio distros you mentioned, however, a Debian based audio distro likely could be used with the Debian sid repository and apt-pinning, while an Ubuntu LTS based distro just provides backports, IOW a Debian based audio distro might be more "command line friendly", if you want to compile software from upstream. As far as I'm concerned, I use Ubuntu Studio and perhaps will add a KXStudio PPA and I also use Arch Audio. I stay away from Debian and especially from Debian derivatives. Assumed you want to run jackd without running X, there might be differences between defaults of distros either, but unlikely between an Ubuntu based and a Debian based distro, since Debian is upstream for Ubuntu. You'll notice that the Debian tracker mentions the Ubuntu packages too, e.g. for jack2, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/jackd2. Hth, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user