LinuxMusicians

Hi all,

I am new to KXStudio, and linux in general, my only prior use (which helped a little) was Knoppix over the years, as a live dvd.

I am using an HP Win10 laptop.
I tried a few live cd iso's that I used rufus to make bootable usb's from.

I quickly saw that KXStudio was the one to go with and I did easily get it to install by taking some space on my 500gig hd
from my 300gig Win10 partition. Very smart installer.
I went through the 3 day learning curve getting to know and appreciate the Jack interface. Got Reaper installed through wine. Installed asio4all too for kicks but no luck getting that to work, which is a shame cause I also got Nuendo 4 portable working and it sees asio4all but no ins or outs and no Jack available either. Thats a sidebar I don't know that anyone will wish to answer here.

But I am really confused as to whether I should try one more time to install LMint which I did like the desktop environment a lot (cinnamon) and use the upgrade repos, or if I should just reinstall KXStudio with a 200 gig partition to itself and just add all the things I like over the live cd install.

I see everyone refer to the live cd as the OLD METHOD, but I can't see why.

It installs so easy and has all the jack and wine stuff config'd. I used the synaptic upgrader to add a gnome desktop in which at first I had no audio then got to appreciate the beauty of the jack interface and was able to work through that,.

SO WHY SHOULD I INSTALL MINT THEN GO THRU THE HASSLE OF UPGRADING IT WHEN I CAN DO AN EASY INSTALL OF THE JULY 2015 CD DISTRO?

Please explain

Much appreciated

Seph

www.seph.ca

Whats not to like?

I tried gnome. Didn't like that. Like I said, I was able to try different desktop environs by downloading gnome through synaptic package manager.
It seems to be the easiest way to install but by googling all you get are results demonstrating the difficulties others encounter when using the repos method.

I'm still wondering why the live cd isn't considered the goto method.

Is there a way to do it the other way around?
To implement the Mint repos after kxstudio install?

I get the feeling you can't but am I missing something truly basic?

Thanks

Seph

I think that you can install from the live cd then add only the cinnamon repos, no need to add a full mint distro over kxstudio.

See this page in french

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/cinnamon

Finding it all fascinating, truly.

I happened to just do a complete laptop fresh install,
I wanted to optimise more partition space on my laptop and I was getting annoyed with win10 bloat.
So I formatted my entire 500g drive and installed a fresh win10 then fresh install of kxstudio.

Here;s the point to note.
his is my THIRD install of KXS in a week.

The options I have been playing with have been the option to update the theme:
much better: dark theme upgrade, do it
and to upgrade all as installing.
I tried it each way,
Whats most interesting and different about this install is that when I went to see what still needed to be updated in SYnaptic Package Manager right after clean install, THIS TIME, forrst time in THREE IDENTICAL INSTALLS< there are a LOT more options in the left hand panel.
SCREENSHOT: Prior two installs I only saw 5 or so options for installed not installed upgradeable etc

I am really enjoying this fyi

I am a musician and artist and my brain likes the creative exploration of it all
I cant wait to try to create more beats with the drum soft and import them into ardour as wavs and tweak em with a cool plug
like I did first time
tools!

really cool shit

kudos to all who create and maintain this distro

Seph

lol

o i c

I was using a tab I was unfamiliar with

status vs sections etc

in synaptic

onward and upward

Well, I apologise for having gotten so windy.

Update:

I don't know why but on the live cd install last one I did, wine wasn't installed.
seems unstable all around, so glitchy.

I was finally able to get Linux Mint into its own hd partition alongside win10 and kxstudio install. So I have a triple boot, I have now
followed the terminal commands to install the kxstudio upgrades (as outlined here:viewtopic.php?t=9666)
and am keen to see if this is a more stable installation.

Appears to have gone well, Gonna add to audio group and restart now...

fingers crossed

PS: No one really said which is the better more stable way to get a full kxstudio running, which was the question of my post.
I am trying to answer it.