I don't like Unity, either.
You can install XFCE on Ubuntu without installing Xubuntu. On my wife's
netbook, Xubuntu starts up a lot slower than stock Ubuntu.
I'm at Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the Ubuntu partition of my laptop. I haven't
done any audio work with it yet, but it now successfully plays videos on
this i7 Haswell/Intel HD4600. That wasn't necessarily true with the
Ubuntu 13 that came on it.
On 05/12/2014 12:14 PM, Louigi Verona wrote:
"Curious as to why you picked xubuntu over ubuntustudio."
I never used Ubuntustudio and in general I prefer the usual distro +
putting audio stuff on top myself. I don't like audio distros for some
reason, I guess they are too "designed" for me.
As for why I chose Xubuntu - I did not like Unity at all, even after
several times of trying.
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
On Mon, 12 May 2014, Louigi Verona wrote:
Nope, I had to install 3.8 as opposed to 3.2 which comes with
Ubuntu. Looks
like when you are buying a new laptop what you should do is put
on the
latest system available and I typically try to stick with LTS.
LTS is 14.04 with a 3.11 kernel, 12.04 should be good for another
year anyway. There are two 3.8 kernels though, there is the generic
as well as the lowlatency. The low latency kernel seems to get less
xruns in anything I have thrown at it. There were a few 3.8 kernels
that had USB audio problems, but I am pretty sure the fix got put in
so you should have it. (dmesg would show if there is a problem)
Interestingly enough, I very rarely go lower 512 frames, which
is around
46ms. And for some reason, midi is always precise even on 1024.
I did test
this and I remember I did work on a system where it made a
difference, but
not now.
I should have been clear, I have been quoting qjackctl's version of
latency, so at 48k 512 would be 21ms... probably that is a
calculated one way trip through jackd and of course doesn't include
card delay. Certainly it should be high enough that CPU governing
doesn't matter too much.
I try to test before I buy if I can. Boot what you want to run from
a memory stick. Ubuntustudio's (if ubuntu is your thing) ISO
probably has the SW or enough of it preinstalled to make testing
possible running it live. Other audio distros have live ISOs as
well. I try to do the same thing with audio IFs. I walk in with my
netbook and make sure it works with linux... and how well it
works... can I see all the channels? can I hear them? (semi)pro
audio is kind of hit and miss right now.
Curious as to why you picked xubuntu over ubuntustudio. Ubuntustudio
is based on xubuntu, but has audio set up out of the box and with
14.04LTS allows selection at install time of which SW not to install
that is on the live ISO. Though, to be honest, I don't know what
happens to packages those applications depend on if you don't
install them. For example KDEnlive would have the kde libs on the
ISO. If the KDE apps are not selected, do the kde libs still get
installed? I'll have to ask. ubiquity does do some sort of clean up
at the end of the install.
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