On 12/1/06, Bill Allen <lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At the risk of repeating myself, in the time that I've been just reading this thread (not to mention the time that you've been putting into trying the stuff mentioned) I could have downloaded 64Studio, set aside a 5-10 GB partition, installed it, and had a working system with all the real-time patched AMD64 music-enabled system that you can get. Yes, you've got to dual boot, I do it all the time. Ubuntu is my family system that we use for work and play, but when I want to do music I boot into 64Studio. It's simply a lot easier than trying to make a general purpose distro into a music enabled one.
I don't understand why everyone who tells me about some new Linux thing has apparently had a breeze of a time with it, and yet when I try it it never works. I just downloaded and installed 64studio (I didn't boot Linux for the remainder of my semester, like I promised myself), and I find that jackd crashes out of the box (i.e. set to 46.4 ms latency). It kind of feels like I have another Debian install just like the previous one, only it doesn't detect the ethernet so I can't search for help on the same machine. After a few weeks using Windows, I'm not even sure why I was so intent on Linux. I think for a few weeks I was actually enjoying the struggle. I'm not now; is this going to be less of one? -Chuckk
