@FeloniousPunk #UbuntuStudio for sure

@juliacdelafuente Si trabajas más que todo con aplicaciones de creación de contenidos una recomendación sería de probar Ubuntu Studio: https://ubuntustudio.org/

Otra distribución interesante a probar si estas acostumbrada a Windows es elementary OS: https://elementary.io/ Desarollada por, entre otros, @danirabbit

Continued again… #UbuntuStudio 24.04, preliminary result…

It's not all about Ubuntu Studio or #Linux.

In general, #audioProduction on any computer has the deficiency that your project depends on many little plugins, which again depend on many other things provided by your OS.

Both #Calf and #IRlv2 use libraries that are incompatible now with Ardour 8.6.x on Ubuntu 24.04. – one problem being GTK2 apparently, so the GUI code is the trouble as it also is with WindowsVSTs on Linux.

A friend of mine recently migrated to later versions of #Cubase, #Windows, and #Voxengo Plugins… when loading his old project, all Voxengo plugins had gone. So he re-inserted them, losing all settings. He ended up writing down the settings on paper on his old computer, then re-constructing the project on his new machine. (Btw., I think #Ardour handles missing plugins in a better way.)

Computers suck giving you stable audio production environments – in different ways, depending on your OS.

Continued… #UbuntuStudio 24.04, preliminary result of migrating from Kubuntu 18.04 #Linux + #kxstudio overlays:

So #Calf audio plugins are practically dead by now. Most of them didn't sound good anyways, but their analyzer was useful and the delay was good. Exciter plugins for Linux? One other is payware, and yet another one is Snake Oil (Airwindows… fails to explain on his webpage what actually is happening except for it's all sounding so much geiler)

IR.lv2 ever has been half-dead but it actually was a very great convolution reverb plugin allowing for changes to the impulse response easily and with an UI that made sense.. Can't load that one any more.

Now what's working and that didn't work on earlier systems is #LinuxStudioPlugins.

They have an IR convolver, an „artistic delay“ etc. – I don't like their UI feel too much but they do the job. I haven't figured out how the Impulse Reverb works with the praised 4-channel files from the #BricastiM7.

Glad that the TAL Dub Delay (payware) still works.

Unfortunately, but not entirely unexpected, the new #DigiKam of #UbuntuStudio has simply ignored the #database from my previous old version.

This had happened to me before. And thus I set DigiKam to store all meta data also into the image files.

This doesn't work for #Gimp's #XCF files however, so now I lost all meta data on these.

Migrating to #UbuntuStudio 24.04 from Kubuntu 18.04 / kxStudio.

Well, looks good, is tedious. Basically spent the whole day already on this.

#vcvRack refuses to use Jack (which is indeed #Pipewire here)… but it seems to to the job when set to #Alsa.

#DaVinciResolve insists on having no GPU, turns out it needs proprietary #amdgpu drivers. Not a priority. It also needs manual intervention removing some bundled libraries that actually do not work on any Ubuntu and that kind of BEEP.

#Lightworks is a priority and after some fiddling it works in #Jack mode. (Latest Lightworks Pro 2025.1 release, I did the upgrade.)

Got all my #WindowsVST to run again except for some crap by Melda which I had used only once. #Ardour and #Mixbus are good. But I need to re-enter the $§%& license stuff for the VSTs everywhere, now where did I put that…

Now what I didn't even touch is my other user on the same machine that does the office work.

Continuing with #UbuntuStudio 24.04 – my hard disk bay has given up working with the new #Linux, so how will I re-import data from my old SSD now?

#DaVinciResolve, as usual, does not run for no apparent reason.

#Lightworks however, as usual, does.

I uninstall the #Ardour of Ubuntu Studio because I have my own installation. Which works out of the box. So does #Harrison #Mixbus.

A where did the X kill go with Ctrl+Alt+ESC? Not possible any more. Why are #Ubuntu makers taking the fun out of #Linux?

Configuring my fresh #Linux install…

Still haven't figured out how to have colored window title bars in #KDE, but other than that… installing #UbuntuStudio packages with that new fiber connection from #DeutscheGlasfaser is crazy. 2 GB downloads, you basically don't feel them.

Now copying settings over from my old #Kubuntu. USB Storage Quirks for the kernel configuration (needed for some esoteric professional card readers of mine, such as CFexpress and CFast). Porting my /etc/fstab with no less than 9 entries for pluggable archive storage hard drives, yes mechanical ones… (I do video editing)…

Now re-inserting my data SSDs (1TB photo, 8TB video)… hopefully all mount points will work right away after reboot.

These expensive Dell workstations allow you to do all of this without a screwdriver.

Now what's actually great about #KDE is that you can configure it a lot. Not. Ah, well…

… #UbuntuStudio has the everything-bar on top. Why not at the bottom? I try to fix this, but I'm doing it wrong.

Now my whatever bar is entirely messed up and there is no reset button in reach.

I have to reconstruct it manually.

I feel like my mum (age 80)… “oh now I have clicked somewhere, it did something, and now it's all gone!“

But I will manage.

Still, Ubuntu Studio trying to be cool, but not having multiple work spaces by default. How can a nerd work without that?