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

[audiojunkie]

After today, there are only two more days left until the end of the survey. Linux users, please respond to the survey! This information helps developers to see what distros to support, and how many are actively using Linux for music production.

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[imrae]

Another Fedora Silverblue here. I wouldn't recommend it for a novice, but it's a pretty neat setup and package quality/selection/freshness is decent.

[audiojunkie]

Another Fedora Silverblue here. I wouldn't recommend it for a novice, but it's a pretty neat setup and package quality/selection/freshness is decent.

Nice! I love it!

[GaryG]

Another Fedora Silverblue here. I wouldn't recommend it for a novice, but it's a pretty neat setup and package quality/selection/freshness is decent.

still a relative Linux newbie so... hows does an immutable distro like Silverblue handle things like audio plugins? Can you still, for instance, install a non-Flatpack DAW like Reaper and all those plugs up on Github (assuming a suitable version is available)?

[audiojunkie]

Another Fedora Silverblue here. I wouldn't recommend it for a novice, but it's a pretty neat setup and package quality/selection/freshness is decent.

still a relative Linux newbie so... hows does an immutable distro like Silverblue handle things like audio plugins? Can you still, for instance, install a non-Flatpack DAW like Reaper and all those plugs up on Github (assuming a suitable version is available)?

Absolutely. Symlinked locations point to the immutable locations. So:

On Fedora Silverblue (and the other Fedora Atomic desktops), the immutable operating system lives primarily under /usr, while writable state is kept in /etc and /var. To preserve the traditional Linux filesystem layout, several top-level directories are symbolic links into writable locations.

The standard symlinks are:

/home -> /var/home
/opt -> /var/opt
/srv -> /var/srv
/root -> /var/roothome
/usr/local -> /var/usrlocal
/mnt -> /var/mnt
/tmp -> /sysroot/tmp

So in this set up, the immutable part doesn’t change, but you can still write and do configuration files and everything else on the operating system.