Linux Audio users of KVR: What distro do you use?

[MurzimStem]

Using Mint with utilities from Ubuntu Studio

[audiojunkie]

Haha!! This is really eye opening!! We are up to seven Mint users!! By far the most used distro for Linux audio production. Very, very interesting!! And surprisingly, no one has mentioned using AV Linux! I expected WAY more AV Linux users than what I'm seeing so far. AV Linux is a great distro! I wonder why no one is using it.......

[audiojunkie]

Bump! Linux users, this provides useful information and insights. If you haven't, please vote, even if you hate voting--if for no other reason, than to help with information gathering.

[neverbeeninariot]

Debian Trixie / KDE, Bitwig & Reaper, and only native plugins. It's been rock solid so far (as you might expect from Debian Stable...).

[audiojunkie]

Debian Trixie / KDE, Bitwig & Reaper, and only native plugins. It's been rock solid so far (as you might expect from Debian Stable...).

Nice! A lot of "naysayers" simply don't believe us when we tell them that is is "rock solid" or that it "works flawlessly". That's a social stigma that really paints a false picture--it's known to be very reliable in the tech industry, but yet somehow that understanding has not reached the general public. Little by little I guess.

[havran]

EndeavourOS with LXQt, and round chicken nuggets.

[neverbeeninariot]

Debian Trixie / KDE, Bitwig & Reaper, and only native plugins. It's been rock solid so far (as you might expect from Debian Stable...).

Nice! A lot of "naysayers" simply don't believe us when we tell them that is is "rock solid" or that it "works flawlessly". That's a social stigma that really paints a false picture--it's known to be very reliable in the tech industry, but yet somehow that understanding has not reached the general public. Little by little I guess.

I guess Debian not updating or changing anything in the OS except for security updates for two years helps with the stability Yes, some things are already a little old (and will feel older by the time D14 Testing stablises sometime next year, but Flatpak provides up to date apps like Obsidian, Nomacs, GIMP, Inkscape, Kodi, LibreOffice... audio apps are direct from the devs and very fresh : )

Another contributer to the stability is drivers; I made sure that the system components had good Linux support before buying - AMD CPU and GFX worked out of the box, and my Scarlett is class-compliant and well served by this - https://github.com/geoffreybennett/alsa-scarlett-gui

[audiojunkie]

Debian Trixie / KDE, Bitwig & Reaper, and only native plugins. It's been rock solid so far (as you might expect from Debian Stable...).

Nice! A lot of "naysayers" simply don't believe us when we tell them that is is "rock solid" or that it "works flawlessly". That's a social stigma that really paints a false picture--it's known to be very reliable in the tech industry, but yet somehow that understanding has not reached the general public. Little by little I guess.

I guess Debian not updating or changing anything in the OS except for security updates for two years helps with the stability Yes, some things are already a little old (and will feel older by the time D14 Testing stablises sometime next year, but Flatpak provides up to date apps like Obsidian, Nomacs, GIMP, Inkscape, Kodi, LibreOffice... audio apps are direct from the devs and very fresh : )

Another contributer to the stability is drivers; I made sure that the system components had good Linux support before buying - AMD CPU and GFX worked out of the box, and my Scarlett is class-compliant and well served by this - https://github.com/geoffreybennett/alsa-scarlett-gui

I use Fedora Silverblue. I have Toolbx for my CLI programs. I have Flatpak for my GUI programs. I have Distrobox with a Debian container for my audio production. I have another Debian container for everything else. My immutable base stays clean. All apps and tools are containerized or sandboxed, and I have zero dependency problems ever. Because of the immutable base, I will never have any OS updates that end in an unbootable system. All of the apps in the containers in Distrobox integrate directly into my base system and runs exactly as if they were all installed directly on the base system--seamlessly. I meticulously check each and every hardware component for Linux compatiblity before buying anything. People don't believe me when I say that my system runs flawlessly, but it really does. I haven't had any problems in years.

If I didn't use Fedora, I would directly use my second favorite choice (Debian) exactly like you do. A nice stable base, and Flatpak for up-to-date, modern GUI apps.