On 11. des. 2017 20:19, Len Ovens wrote:
The Ubuntu LTS seems a good deal, but there are not a lot of people working on keeping things specific to audio in best running order. In particular the version of jackd has from time to time been broken (though it seems just fine these days). The focus of Ubuntu is servers and desktop. Those parts will work well. I personally would use Ubuntu rather than a derivitive of Ubuntu which tends to be behind Ubuntu. But though I do use Ubuntu now and have been since 2010-ish. I am thinking to change though I am still thinking what I should change to. I have purposely chosen hardware that has open drivers so I don't need to choose something that has blobs in the kernel. I personally have stayed away from the Unity DE and find xfce to be the most stable and usable. Lxde works as well but is not well polished and I would only use it if my hardware forced me to. Also, be aware that Ubuntu is looking to stop support for 32 bit system after 18.04. That is, 18.04 will be the last LTS that comes with 32 bit kernels that are maintained by the ubuntu kernel team. Lubuntu will (I believe) continue to offer 32 bit kernels though.
I like the Ubuntu LTS option as well (currently running Ubuntu Studio 16.04). Usually lagging a bit, say a year, before installing on a production machine (though my production is very modest).
There's a bi-annual (more or less) small pain of reinstalling and re-configuring, requiring a few days before most stuff works without hickups. I guess waiting longer between upgrades would mean spending more time 'in configuration mode' - a less frequent but bigger pain ;-)
I never gave Unity a fair shot as I really like xfce - and those tweaks added by the Ubuntu Studio team.
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