hey everybody,
i was about the last 6 month a hardcore distrohopper (approximatly 30 fresh installs).
my wishes:
- does it run my NI kore audio 6 without crackles/xruns?
- is pipewire stable?
- is the gui of the wonderful&native VST "master mix" (tracktion) working?
- is the kernel up2date enough for my ryzen 5700g?
- is wine working fine for my breathcontroller (sylphyo) and the swam-winVST-stuff?
- is it easy to install bitwig?- (deb prefered - cause yabridge isnt working with flatpak-version, rpm seems buggy)
- is it stable and edgy enough?
- is it too edgy that i am a beta-test-monkey?
- is the desktop good looking and good for my windows-shortcuts-muscle-memory?
- gtk or plasma?, plasma or gtk?, hmm, or or or...
- and much more....
now - it seems that my journey ended!
the begin of the end was this website:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/30/ ... ss_ubuntu/
i read there something like:
wow - a brand new shit xubuntu without snap and with the rocksolid&fast xfce?
hmm, some months ago someone on youtube said, xubuntu is the fastest mainstream-distro for old hardware.
...but i didnt try cause 22.04 was too old for my ego 
but now 24.04? ok! - lets go!
the result is awesome:
i NEVER had a distro, where out-of-the-box bitwig with the swam-winVST-plugins was running like a a charm!
...even with the outdated "stock"-wine 8.0!
i did ZERO config-jonglage (and you can imagine, meanwhile i became the master-pedant-tune-audio-config-wizard through the last months
but with Xubuntu 24.04 (!minimal edition!) "untouched" i have no crackles - even with no cpu governor change (simply "ondemand")!
and my f**n old i3 8GB laptop runs the bitwig demo-songs without hickups! for the first time! 48000/256->7ms!
so i started a script to express-install my three machines. and i want to share it with you to make it all together more perfect 
see below.
some technical thoughts:
i was 6 months ago a linux-noob. now i am a high-motivated beginner. i love to learn from you!
i hate fundamental discussions about snap, systemd, cannonical and all the other "evil-stuff". i just want to make music without hazzle (and windows .
i think apt and flatpak are enough and both are stable. snap feels for me like too edgy.
so thats why i love Xubuntu 24.04 minimal - there are ZERO snaps preinstalled - there is nearly nothing preinstalled.
so clean - wonderful!
so in the first script below i deactivate snap, install apt-apps which i want to have stable and well system-integrated.
...and flatpaks when i want the brandnew shit. ...and wine, yabridge etc...
i use no gnome-software-app (i takes about 500mb ram - even when closed).
instead i made a button in the panel for flathub.org. on this website i choose an app and simply copy the install-command (next to the "install"-button) and paste it in the terminal - thats all.
for updating apt&flatpak i made a simple shutdown-script attached to a red button on my panel (see below)
xfce is ugly?
use a preinstalled dark mode theme, put the panel to bottom and maximize it to 32px, grap a breathtaking osx-style wallpaper.
this takes about 5 minutes and it looks so much better than stock-xfce!
maybe i should wait for 24.04.1 for perfect stability - but i am too excited now!
now enough blabla - have a look at my scripts.
i am looking very forward to your opinions/optimizations!
best regards
sebasaturn
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#!/bin/bash
### only xubuntu minimal has no snaps installed - otherwise use first the script 'clean_snaps.sh'
### remove snap ##############
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/
sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd gnome-software-plugin-snap
rm -fr ~/snap
sudo rm -rf /snap
sudo rm -rf /var/snap
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/snapd
sudo apt-mark hold snapd
### install firefox from ppa ######################
sudo apt-get install wget
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -q https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc > /dev/null
gpg -n -q --import --import-options import-show /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc | awk '/pub/{getline; gsub(/^ +| +$/,""); if($0 == "35BAA0B33E9EB396F59CA838C0BA5CE6DC6315A3") print "\nThe key fingerprint matches ("$0").\n"; else print "\nVerification failed: the fingerprint ("$0") does not match the expected one.\n"}'
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list > /dev/null
echo '
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
Pin-Priority: 1000
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox
sudo apt-get install firefox-l10n-de
### install flatpak ##############################
sudo apt install flatpak -y
#sudo apt install gnome-software -y
#sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak -y
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
### go to flathub.org choose an app and click the arror next to 'install' and insert the 1st command in terminal
### install your favorite flatpaks - flatpaks will be very actual but maybe limited in systemintegration - flatseal could help ##############
flatpak install flathub org.rncbc.qpwgraph -y
flatpak install flathub org.kde.kdenlive -y
flatpak install flathub com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud -y
flatpak install flathub org.signal.Signal -y
flatpak install flathub org.telegram.desktop -y
flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam -y
flatpak install flathub org.ryujinx.Ryujinx -y
flatpak install flathub org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors -y
flatpak install flathub org.mixxx.Mixxx -y
### install your favorite apps via ppa - these apps will be very stable and well integrated in your system ###########################
sudo apt install evolution -y
sudo apt install doublecmd-gtk -y
sudo apt install libunrar5 -y
sudo apt install gthumb -y
sudo apt install obs-studio -y
sudo apt install vlc -y
sudo apt install wine -y
sudo apt install evince -y
sudo apt install xfce4-clipman-plugin -y
sudo apt install system-config-printer -y
sudo apt install mousepad -y
sudo apt install file-roller -y
sudo apt install thunar-archive-plugin -y
sudo apt install gnome-disk-utility -y
sudo apt install xfce4-taskmanager -y
sudo apt install lightdm-settings -y
### install yabridge for Windows-VSTs #########################
wget -O yabridge.tar.gz https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/releases/download/5.1.0/yabridge-5.1.0.tar.gz
mkdir -p ~/.local/share
tar -C ~/.local/share -xavf yabridge.tar.gz
rm yabridge.tar.gz
echo '' >> ~/.bash_aliases
echo '# Audio: yabridge path' >> ~/.bash_aliases
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/share/yabridge"' >> ~/.bash_aliases
. ~/.bash_aliases
### Create common VST paths ##########################
mkdir -p "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins"
mkdir -p "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/CLAP"
mkdir -p "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST3"
# Add them into yabridge
yabridgectl add "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins"
yabridgectl add "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/CLAP"
yabridgectl add "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST3"
### be part of audio-relevant groups #############################
sudo adduser $USER audio
sudo adduser $USER pipewire
### full localisation (if necessary) ########################
#sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-de -y
### install wine-staging ########################
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/noble/winehq-noble.sources
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging -Y
sudo apt install winetricks -Y
winetricks corefonts
cp -r ~/.wine ~/.wine-base
winetricks dxvk # for freezing winVST-guis like the swam-stuff
### corectrl can select performance-cpu-governor automated when f.e. bitwig starts ######################
sudo apt install corectrl -Y
sudo apt install xfce4-cpufreq-plugin -Y
# see for details https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl/-/wikis/Setup
pkaction --version
## todos:
# fix tiling (windows/shortcuts)
# put corectrl in startup and fix its sudo-rights, make a corectrl-bitwig-profile "performance"
# see for details https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl/-/wikis/Setup
# add cpu-plugin in tray for checking if corectrl is working - or not
# bug of xubuntu:
# sudo nano /etc/default/grub
# splash -> nosplash
# sudo update-grub
#
# add shutdown.sh-script as a shutdown-button in panel
#
# and here some heavy-audio-tweaking-stuff i dont need anymore:
# links: https://github.com/brendaningram/linux-audio-setup-scripts
# links: https://interfacinglinux.com/2023/11/14/pro-audio-on-linux-with-debian-12/
# links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnUo3SPQQmw&themeRefresh=1
and the shutdown.sh-script.
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#!/bin/bash
echo "Nach einem Update wird das System heruntergefahren..."
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && flatpak update -y
sudo shutdown now
and finally the clean_snap.sh-script:
use it first if you are using another 24.04 distro.
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
# snaps can only be removed if they have no other snaps
# depending on them. We use a brute force approach and
# just try to uninstall them multiple times.
#
# try at most 30 times to uninstall all snaps
MAX_TRIES=30
for try in $(seq 1 $MAX_TRIES); do
INSTALLED_SNAPS=$(snap list 2> /dev/null | grep -c ^Name || true)
if (( $INSTALLED_SNAPS == 0 )); then
echo "all snaps removed"
exit 0
fi
echo "Attempt $try of $MAX_TRIES to remove $INSTALLED_SNAPS snaps."
# we ignore error during uninstall as we are retrying in the loop
snap list 2> /dev/null | grep -v ^Name | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs -r -n1 snap remove || true
done
echo "ERROR: Unable to uninstall"
exit 1
