On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 22:25 +0000, Neil C Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On 19 November 2012 19:14, Aurélien Leblond <blablack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm using 12.10 because of other issues in 12.04 (especially USB soundcard > > requiring a higher kernel to run ok). > > Over the past 2 years I am having this laptop, I haven't been able to get a > > single stable version of Ubuntu for playing music: > > - Soundcard not supported > > - EHCI not supporting USB 2.0 soundcard > > - XHCI not supporting USB 2.0 soundcard > > - Compiz being too slow > > - FGLRX creating xrun > > Sounds like you're having fun! :-) There are backports of more recent > kernels to 12.04, which might be another option for you. I've read so > many early issues with 12.10 around graphics ... > > On 11/19/12, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > it's always possible to install the studio meta packages to any other Ubuntu install. > > I started off with that but found it dated and unstable compared to > getting stuff from the KXStudio's PPAs. YMMV. I never heard something bad about KXStudio, but theoretically third party packages could conflict with Ubuntu packages. I experienced the dated apps from Ubuntu Studio as stable, OTOH sometimes I build some apps myself. Usually I recommend to use Ubuntu Studio, but in this case not, because not everybody has got the same work-flow and ... > >> On 11/19/12, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> [SNIP] > >> Pff, Unity IMO is the most worse desktop environment I've ever seen. > >> I suspect that somebody who likes Unity, would have a very unusual audio > >> production work-flow, > >> so any recommendation might be counterproductive regarding to the OP's > >> needs. > > > > Opinionated nonsense is probably the most counterproductive response > > in general, regardless of the OPs needs. > > Especially when the OP specifically and politely requested that > > discussion of desktop preference be avoided. > > More to the point, the OP specifically stated liking to use it, so how > about keeping your thinly veiled prejudices about our abnormal > workflows to yourself, Ralf?! :-P ... using Unity does lead to an unusual work-flow. That doesn't mean that an unusual work-flow is bad. You do the value judgement, please don't put misrepresented words in my mouth. It's really sick and I only know such behavior from Linux mailing list. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
