A Good Linux Distro For Music Production?

[rlared]

You need to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10

Thanks, that explains it, how infuriating.

I found a tutorial on how to upgrade it.

https://jumpcloud.com/blog/how-to-upgra ... untu-23-04

23.04 Release
https://releases.ubuntu.com/23.04/

That will work but honestly if you just installed, it's probably easier to do a clean install of 23.10.

[THE INTRANCER]

You need to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10

Thanks, that explains it, how infuriating.

I found a tutorial on how to upgrade it.

https://jumpcloud.com/blog/how-to-upgra ... untu-23-04

23.04 Release
https://releases.ubuntu.com/23.04/

That will work but honestly if you just installed, it's probably easier to do a clean install of 23.10.

23.10? I've already started downloading 23.04, I've only got a 2.5 to 3 Meg connection so downloading 4.6 gig takes around 5 hours. I'm not one for constantly downloading distros and wasting time trying to get stuff to work, that's partly the reason I left Linux years ago as I kept breaking the distros, updates breaking distros. Linux is a headache to deal with and Windows 10 is an unstable nightmare. Had zero issues with Windows 7 but that's the price of so-called progress. I get two blue screens per boot with Windows 10 each day.

I'll be doing a clean install of 23.04. I'm really only installing Linux out of curiosity in regard to Studio One, and as an escape from Windows when the crap hits the fan.

https://jgwallis.github.io/post/windows-10-instability/

[dellboy]

You need to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10

Thanks, that explains it, how infuriating.

I found a tutorial on how to upgrade it.

https://jumpcloud.com/blog/how-to-upgra ... untu-23-04

23.04 Release
https://releases.ubuntu.com/23.04/

That will work but honestly if you just installed, it's probably easier to do a clean install of 23.10.

23.10? I've already started downloading 23.04, I've only got a 2.5 to 3 Meg connection so downloading 4.6 gig takes around 5 hours. I'm not one for constantly downloading distros and wasting time trying to get stuff to work, that's partly the reason I left Linux years ago as I kept breaking the distros, updates breaking distros. Linux is a headache to deal with and Windows 10 is an unstable nightmare. Had zero issues with Windows 7 but that's the price of so-called progress. I get two blue screens per boot with Windows 10 each day.

I'll be doing a clean install of 23.04. I'm really only installing Linux out of curiosity in regard to Studio One, and as an escape from Windows when the crap hits the fan.

https://jgwallis.github.io/post/windows-10-instability/

I had daily crashes on win 10, mainly when starting in the morning, it just blue-screened and rebooted and then was fine for the rest of day. I suspected it was a ram problem. Anyway, 6 weeks ago it just reused to start one morning. I was about to order a new machine but thought I may as well pull out the ram and try one stick at a time. Problem solved. It booted and is now very stable on just the one 16 GB stick. If I pull that stick and put back the other one it will not boot.

[Saffran]

I'm staying with AVLinux. The manual say to put windows vst plugins to user/lib/vst or vst3.
I have tried to put the dll in there. Also tried to put the whole folder with the dll in it. Using the default filemanager.
.
It will not accept the move of the file and does not copy it either. They're on a usb that's mounted ok.
.
Someone have any tip how to go about without using the terminal?

[rlared]

You need to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10

Thanks, that explains it, how infuriating.

I found a tutorial on how to upgrade it.

https://jumpcloud.com/blog/how-to-upgra ... untu-23-04

23.04 Release
https://releases.ubuntu.com/23.04/

That will work but honestly if you just installed, it's probably easier to do a clean install of 23.10.

23.10? I've already started downloading 23.04, I've only got a 2.5 to 3 Meg connection so downloading 4.6 gig takes around 5 hours. I'm not one for constantly downloading distros and wasting time trying to get stuff to work, that's partly the reason I left Linux years ago as I kept breaking the distros, updates breaking distros. Linux is a headache to deal with and Windows 10 is an unstable nightmare. Had zero issues with Windows 7 but that's the price of so-called progress. I get two blue screens per boot with Windows 10 each day.

I'll be doing a clean install of 23.04. I'm really only installing Linux out of curiosity in regard to Studio One, and as an escape from Windows when the crap hits the fan.

https://jgwallis.github.io/post/windows-10-instability/

Sorry you are right, 23.04 is what Presonus requires. So you will be fine!

[rlared]

I'm staying with AVLinux. The manual say to put windows vst plugins to user/lib/vst or vst3.
I have tried to put the dll in there. Also tried to put the whole folder with the dll in it. Using the default filemanager.
.
It will not accept the move of the file and does not copy it either. They're on a usb that's mounted ok.
.
Someone have any tip how to go about without using the terminal?

If you are using Linux you will need to learn to use the terminal occasionally. You need root permissions to write to that location. The command will be "sudo cp /path/to/file /usr/lib/vst/". You can use the mount command or lsblk to see where the USB is mounted to. Alternatively just create a .vst or .vst3 folder in your home directory and tell whatever program to look there, that's pretty standard.

[dellboy]

I'm staying with AVLinux. The manual say to put windows vst plugins to user/lib/vst or vst3.
I have tried to put the dll in there. Also tried to put the whole folder with the dll in it. Using the default filemanager.
.
It will not accept the move of the file and does not copy it either. They're on a usb that's mounted ok.
.
Someone have any tip how to go about without using the terminal?

No need to use the terminal - just right click on the folder and choose "open folder as root"- put in your password and then you can paste into the folder. If ever you are forced to use the terminal, you can choose "open terminal here". and the path to that folder is automatically filled in for you.

[lobanov]

https://jgwallis.github.io/post/windows-10-instability/

Are you serious? It's just an article from an advertising web site. Published on Github. Not for cheap. For free.

[vurt]

You need to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10

Thanks, that explains it, how infuriating.

I found a tutorial on how to upgrade it.

https://jumpcloud.com/blog/how-to-upgra ... untu-23-04

23.04 Release
https://releases.ubuntu.com/23.04/

That will work but honestly if you just installed, it's probably easier to do a clean install of 23.10.

23.10? I've already started downloading 23.04, I've only got a 2.5 to 3 Meg connection so downloading 4.6 gig takes around 5 hours. I'm not one for constantly downloading distros and wasting time trying to get stuff to work, that's partly the reason I left Linux years ago as I kept breaking the distros, updates breaking distros. Linux is a headache to deal with and Windows 10 is an unstable nightmare. Had zero issues with Windows 7 but that's the price of so-called progress. I get two blue screens per boot with Windows 10 each day.

I'll be doing a clean install of 23.04. I'm really only installing Linux out of curiosity in regard to Studio One, and as an escape from Windows when the crap hits the fan.

https://jgwallis.github.io/post/windows-10-instability/

never had an issue with win10.
maybe you've done something wrong? or it's a hardware issue?

[Saffran]

Thanks guys!
rlared - now that you mention it, i saw that in Ardour you can change paths to plugins.
dellboy - i'll try "open folder as root" first.
AVL seems as a newbie friendly distro to me now when i have get used to it a bit more. Apart from the occasional hickups. I'm able to do everything in a window, well up to now at least.
One new hickup ocurred when i used both front panel and backpanel for sound output. It didn't like that and the sound disappeared. I eventually opened the volume window and clicked on some buttons. And low and behold the speaker that was grey, as if it didn't have a function, did actually have a function. It turned on the sound output.
Remember ⤴ "bad at indicating actions".

[dellboy]

Feeling quite pleased with myself as I somehow managed to install Studio One 6 on Fedora using an external SSD which I can now just plug in when the mood takes to go Linux. I did try to install the SSD internally, but Fedora messed up the boot loader. I followed the intructions on the Presonus Linux forum.......

https://forums.presonus.com/viewtopic.p ... a568f3c2ec

[THE INTRANCER]

Well, I spent some time this evening running Studio One 6 on Linux which has been interesting. It's my first experience of Studio One 6 on Linux, I've not even tried it on Windows 10 yet. I curious to know if I'll still be able to download the Pro demo of the PC version which isn't so broken feature and function wise. For what it's worth though, it's impressive that they actually got Studio One actually working. The surround stuff is interesting and fun with the new additions it brings. There are a lot of things to fix, but one of the most annoying is that plugins keep getting hidden by the interface when you click on the main GUI.

My installation of Ubuntu got stuck for some reason so on boot (installing programs), I'm left with a list of orphaned files even though Ubuntu itself loads. I made a partition on my SSD so might be possible to reinstall the distro on that one. (Update: The list of orphaned files aren't listed anymore) humm. Maybe my commands in the terminal actually worked.

[EnGee]

I had problems trying to install Mint Linux and Ubuntu Studio on external SSD. I tried several options but something in my hardware is causing a problem when installing Mint or Ubuntu Studio. So, I tried at last Ubuntu (23.10) and it worked fine. I've installed Bitwig Studio and Hive. I don't need more really!
The reason I installed Linux is trying to restrict myself! Whatever I try on Windows 11 or Mac, I end up with more than 50 instruments (mostly synths)! It is distracting and confusing when choosing a sound or a synth. Bitwig has a very good synths with good drums as well. Hive is a good minimalist synth and can do 50% of what I want. Anyway, I still have my hardware and guitars to add to this setup, so I think it is more than enough

Update:
Oh well, Ubuntu after successful logins several times yesterday, refused to start today! So, I have replaced it with Mint Linux (not edge this time) and it works much better than Ubuntu! Ubuntu yesterday was not that good! Windows didn't close and interface is annoying. It also has shit software management! What happened?! It used to be really good in the past! Anyway, Mint seems very stable and with much better interface.

[dellboy]

The reason I installed Linux is trying to restrict myself!

Is it working?

[GaryG]

The reason I installed Linux is trying to restrict myself!

I hear you... Just built a new desktop and thought it could be an adventure to try something different seriously (not just the annual boot from a USB stick for an hour or two...) I'm no professional (don't have hundreds invested in more expensive software etc) and my needs are modest so thought using a different toolset, limiting myself to linux native and a couple of essential vsts bridged could actually be inspiring. Not getting distracted by every freebie that gets released. I'm thinking like a guitarist putting his electric away for a while and just writing on acoustic for a change.

And Reaper just seems to work (mostly...) on AVLinux, two of my workhorse synths are pre-installed (surge and odin) so... happy days.