LinuxMusicians

This is probably a silly question, but can someone tell me if I should download the "Direct" version or the "Torrent" version? I would think it would be the "Direct" version, but I am guessing. thanks

thanks merlyn. Ubuntu Studio will be supporting the LTS-based Bionic Beaver 18.04 until April 2021. It seems to be a good place to start for a noob.

great info, thanks. Unfortunately, I am stuck with the Pixel/Chrome book for probably a year. I'm on a very fixed budget and I want to start learning the software. Help me understand the unsupported software concept in Linux. When an issuer like Ubuntu Studio stops supporting a version, do most peop...

Yes, Linuxmusician01, I noticed that about Ubuntu Studio, but I do not know what it means exactly that it is only supported until January 2019. What I am looking for preferably, is a distro that I can easily update perpetually and it will not ruin the apps and files that are installed - if such a th...

[...] Is there an audio distro with a GUI for the totally inexperienced? Unfortunately: no. Especially if you want to use something other than a browser and a word processor (like: music production) you're gonna have to prepare for a steep learning curve. And using a terminal (command line) is very...

thank you very much. AVLinux looks good. I read that it works well for older machines with limited hardware resources. On the downside, it is maintained by one person. I noticed Ubuntu Studio. It seems to have a sizable community. A gentleman has written a living document called Ubuntu Studio Audio ...

Hello. I am poor. Dirt poor. I have a Pixelbook i5 2 core with 8G of RAM I would like to use to run evaluation copies of Bitwig and Harrison Mixbus. I have tried to use the beta version of Linux included in Pixelbook, but it seems half-baked. I have installed Bitwig but none of the drivers work with...