Ubuntu Studio & KDE
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Ubuntu Studio & KDE
But I find it funny that I seem to be the only one enraged by this lol
Any Studio users out there who are running 20.10 and if so, what do you think?
For as long I've been a linux user, KDE was always the pretty but resource-intensive DE for Linux. It caught me quite off guard that Studio team would choose it as their default DE for an OS that is supposed to provide maximum available resources for multimedia processing.
My laptop is my backup recording computer, my main recording computer isn't going to be getting updated for a few months while I finish projects I am in the middle of, but I want to have a plan for when that time comes. I think I might finally be switching to AVLinux or maybe I'll just piece together a UStudio distro with xfce.
Thoughts?
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FWIW, I haven't tried out 20.10 yet,For audio production, nothing in terms of resource usage changes. If the display compositor proves to be problematic, a simple alt-shift-F12 disables the display compositor. It can also be disabled from starting at login. A known resource hog from KDE, the Akonadi server in the KDE Personal Information manager, will not be included by default (Kubuntu currently does not use KDE PIM, but Thunderbird as do we). The Plasma desktop environment has, without Akonadi, become just as light in resource usage as Xfce, perhaps even lighter. Other audio-focused Linux distributions, such as Fedora Jam and KXStudio, have historically used the KDE Plasma desktop environment and done well with audio.
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I've heard this claim before, and granted I didn't run actual benchmarks of any sort, but the difference is night and day to the extent that I can't imagine what data can neglect my personal anecdotal evidence.
Upon installing 20.10, my computer was significantly slower, the CPU monitor would should all 4 cores red-lining and the computer would be close to inoperable for minutes at a time while the processor crunched whatever it was doing. It was quite literally the most stressed I've ever been on a Linux box.
I installed xfce from the repos, removed kde and plasma and everything else, and now the computer is back to performing nice and smooth as it was on the older distro I was one.
After all that, I am dumbfounded that others claim it is just as resource friendly as xfce.
Not to be contrary! Again, what you quoted has been said by many others. And if KXstudio is also using KDE, then I clearly must be missing something. But until I figure out what that something is, I am staying far the hell away from KDE lol
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Re: Ubuntu Studio & KDE
Tried Ubuntu Studio a few months back and had major issues so I'm staying the hell away from that!
KX Studio distro last release was 7 years ago so its KDE4 is now ancient, but I used it for a long time and it worked well. KDE Plasma 5 is in a whole different league to KDE4.
Bottom line is... YMMV.
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Re: Ubuntu Studio & KDE
but I'm glad everyone else is working fine on kde. maybe it was a driver issue. kde seemed to have a lot of problems managing hardware for me as well. maybe its all a hardware issue.
but back on xfce is working good for me. computer fan is hardly pushing and processor aint breaking a sweat
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krunner, Konsole, Kate, and Dolphin keep me interested in Plasma. On this laptop, I'm not sure how recording would do with Ubuntu Studio anyway, but Plasma in not the bottleneck it used to be.
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