AV Linux Vs Stock Debian

What other apps and distros do you use to round out your studio?

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AV Linux Vs Stock Debian

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Hi
I am currently running Debian stable along with the Liquorix kernel and KXStudio repositories. I get quite decent results.

My machine is an older one, I wondered if I might get a little more out of it running AV Linux. Is there anyone with any experience who can shed any light on this please?
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Re: AV Linux Vs Stock Debian

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The distro is not going to make any difference, there are no performance advantages to be gained between any of the major flavours of Linux.

What matters is how the OS is set up. AV Linux has already taken care of optimising settings for audio usage. A stock major distro like Debian or any other can be set up to run audio well, if one knows what to modify.

If one doesn't know how to optimise a Linux OS for audio usage something like AV Linux will probably perform better than a 1/2 baked attempt to get things working.
Some Focal / 20.04 audio packages and resources https://midistudio.groups.io/g/linuxaudio
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Re: AV Linux Vs Stock Debian

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Hi,

Quoted from the AV Linux User Manual:
Components of AV Linux and differences from stock Debian/GNU Linux :

Originates from 32bit and 64bit snapshots of Debian Testing... PLUS
Trulan Martin's Custom Realtime Preempt Kernel.
CPU governed for performance by default.
Optional choices of Liquorix or Debian Kernels.
Some special packaging not found in default Repositories.
Full XFCE4 Desktop Environment with attractive customizations.
falkTX's KXStudio Repositories for up to date Audio Applications.
Extensive Audio/Video and Administrator-friendly Thunar Custom Actions.
Complete JACK Audio environment with automatic JACK MIDI and PulseAudio Integration.
Robust Environment for developers: Compilers, Package scripts, GIT, SVN, BZR, + dev libs.
Choice of GCC5 or GCC6 Compilers.
Mozilla builds of Firefox and Thunderbird.
An abundance of various GTK and Window Manager Themes.
Customized scripts for convenience and tons of other stuff I probably have forgotten..
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