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On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 22:25 +0000, Neil C Smith wrote:

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> Hi,

>

> On 19 November 2012 19:14, Aurélien Leblond  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  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  wrote:

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> >> [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
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