On 11. des. 2017 20:19, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> The Ubuntu LTS seems a good deal, but there are not a lot of people
> working on keeping things specific to audio in best running order. In
> particular the version of jackd has from time to time been broken
> (though it seems just fine these days). The focus of Ubuntu is servers
> and desktop. Those parts will work well. I personally would use Ubuntu
> rather than a derivitive of Ubuntu which tends to be behind Ubuntu. But
> though I do use Ubuntu now and have been since 2010-ish. I am thinking
> to change though I am still thinking what I should change to. I have
> purposely chosen hardware that has open drivers so I don't need to
> choose something that has blobs in the kernel. I personally have stayed
> away from the Unity DE and find xfce to be the most stable and usable.
> Lxde works as well but is not well polished and I would only use it if
> my hardware forced me to. Also, be aware that Ubuntu is looking to stop
> support for 32 bit system after 18.04. That is, 18.04 will be the last
> LTS that comes with 32 bit kernels that are maintained by the ubuntu
> kernel team. Lubuntu will (I believe) continue to offer 32 bit kernels
> though.
I like the Ubuntu LTS option as well (currently running Ubuntu Studio
16.04). Usually lagging a bit, say a year, before installing on a
production machine (though my production is very modest).
There's a bi-annual (more or less) small pain of reinstalling and
re-configuring, requiring a few days before most stuff works without
hickups. I guess waiting longer between upgrades would mean spending
more time 'in configuration mode' - a less frequent but bigger pain ;-)
I never gave Unity a fair shot as I really like xfce - and those tweaks
added by the Ubuntu Studio team.
Alf
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