I'm an artist and producer in despair. I'm trying to find a stable distro for year(s), but I can't get anything that would stand the test of time.
I feel like the newest major distro versions (Ubuntu 11.04, Mint 11) are re-feeding theese old tired bugs that should be present there 5 years ago but not now again.
I'm fed up with problems like system getting a kill-me-with-the-power-button-holded blank screen after I shut the laptop lid.
Also suspending system to disk or ram doesn't work anymore for me (it used to back when I was using KX Studio or Ubuntu, a year ago).
I don't even get angry because the webcam is rotated 180 degrees and all the brand new distros still don;t have fresh enough V4L2 libraries to fix this problem. Gentoo was a win on this, but it failed to install Blender and LMMS or Ardour so I can't do any work there.
Also it seems like JACK is working worse and worse every month now.
I can't get it now using right ALSA devices, it silently refuses tu use my second interface so I have to manually hook it up with alsa_in.
I'm freaking sick of this, but I won't give up libre software.
So here's my
I have a year old ASUS laptop named K52j. Distro I used (in no praticular order):
- Gentoo (on the very beginning, I got a working Gnome2 desktop with no audio apps I needed)
- KX Studio (3 times?)
- Ubuntu (5 times?)
- AV Linux (just from LiveCD)
- Linux Mint Gnome (current)
- Linux Mint LXDE (ouch)
- CrunchBang Linux (just from LiveCD)
The desktop is slick and nice, but Ardour JACK and PulseAudio are behaving like burning whores closed in a tiny bathroom with no water.
Why are JACK startup commands not working well just like when I run the same code in a terminal window?
Why is PulseAudio such a rude bitch that I have to killall -9 it everytime I want to reload JACK?
The more I know about linux, the more it fails me. I'm really sorry to say that. Things are not working as they are supposed to. I hope this will get better, otherwise I'm gonna become a fucking jazzman and stop touching computers at all. Because I'm never going to get a MAC or Windows machine.
Please share what distro you find the most reliable.
Is there any ROCK-SOLID multimedia linux distro out there I can trust it won't get me screaming like Serj Tankian on System of a Down's self-tiltled album?
Help! I need somebody - help! Now just anybody - help! C'mon I need someone. Heeelp!