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On 02/08/2013 11:17 AM, shane richards wrote:

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> I unfortunately had to download/code "new" versions of software

> recently due to burglary in what used to be a studio. This is what I

> found:

>

> 1. I never realised just how much time I had spent writing freaking

> .desktop files, designing icons, creating MIME types, associating

> programs, and mucking about with menus in general. Of course, where

> does one send their bunch of xdg files for others to use? It's not

> like packagers accept outsiders commenting on their sub-standard

> packaging. I have binaries installed right into /usr/share - how did

> that happen? I told the packager and was told basically where to go

> "NOOB". (30 years of CM production, 15 of those years on Linux. I'm a

> noob, ok, sorry).

Yah, I've gotten those kind of responses from developers. Not from

packagers, though.
> 2. What happened since 2010? About half my VST and windows programs

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> stopped working. New wine sucks; lots of xruns, plenty of crashes,

> some programs won't even install or run. New kernel blows hard, I'm

> getting Xruns on a machine that's over 4-times as powerful as the

> last. Never, ever had that before. Why do we always have to have

> "cutting edge"? Screw the 1.5 release, the last good one was the

> 1.1.13/28/32, series. Use THAT tried and tested version for your

> install and allow upgrades later.

Hardware changes seem to have big effects on xruns.
> 3. So far, NONE of my old multi-app projects have been immediately

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> useable, due to the above. An OS upgrade has killed some projects. It

> shouldn't happen. So I went searching for Ubuntu Lucid/KXStudio, just

> like I ran without incident for 3 years...it ran everything I could

> throw at it. There seems to have been an all-out scorched-earth

> policy towards Ubuntu Lucid. It no longer exists. KXStudio just wants

> to "upgrade" me - the original repos have been razed as well - but I

> don't want "upgrade", I want a wine that works and a kernel that can

> keep up on hardware that is 4 times faster than before.

I don't consider Ubuntu a good choice. Easy to use, but they're

definitely heading an unfriendly direction.
> 4. And now to the biggest gripe. On my laptop, I decided to create a

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> login for my partner so she could quickly check her mail without me

> having to unblock facebook etc. When I finally got her to log in, the

> DEFAULT BACKGROUND WALLPAPER HAD A HENTAI CHICK IN A SUBSERVIENCE

> POSE. WTF!? Partner not amused. Are all the distro people 15 year old

> losers?

Yah, some seem to be. Which distro was that? Have never seen one that

had any background graphic that original.
I have a Live CD version of Aptosid. When you boot it, the first thing

you notice is that the trash can has a huge pile of stuff in it. Didn't

anyone think of simply emptying the trash before they made their live

cd?????
> 5. Related to 4 and 1: can we just spend an hour checking the

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> defaults on the desktop before releasing stuff? KDE as presented by

> the distros is worse than XP off a Dell ghost disk. Horrible,

> horrible, horrible defaults. Nepomuk/Strigi disaster turned on by

> default. Why? We already knew it was a disaster. If you're gonna say

> "we're a music distro", then set it up for MUSIC not for eye-candy.

In my opinion, as a former longtime KDE user, KDE4 *is not usable as a

music workstation desktop*. Too many background daemons, too much

eye-candy wasting processor time and memory (note: the eye candy can all

be turned off), etc.
Start with an audio distro. Musix works as a music distro. ArtistX

worked for me, too. Aptosid works for me, cuz I can always boot from the

live CD of whatever version I had installed, and reinstall it. And

Aptosid doesn't automatically upgrade items like the kernel; you have to

do that manually.
Or start with a non-KDE/non-GNOME3 desktop like LXDE or XFCE and add the

music stuff to it. While you're doing it - document everything you did

and keep that offsite. Similar backups for /etc, all your customized

.desktop files, etc. After it's all configured and works the way you

want it to, boot from a live Linux CD and make an image of your system

partition. Back that up and save it offsite.
--

David

gnome@hawaii.rr.com

authenticity, honesty, community

http://clanjones.org/david/

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