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Debian 12 KDE Plasma: The right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024. Reasons and complete installation guide. (www.davidrevoy.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17590541

I enjoyed this post despite not needing a guide, because it shows someone doing real-world creative work with open-source software. Glimpses of their art and workspace made it even more fun.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd love a similar post with music production workspace setup tips.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Me too! I am not a professional but audio support is such a point of friction for me that I’d love to see how others handle it when it’s critical to their work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

same. audio accounts for so much of the friction i've experienced on linux its crazy. it works fine for general computing (after tons of troubleshooting), but it kind of convinced me that i'd probably need to dual boot if i wanted to try music production. i'd love to be proven wrong about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't get latency down enough to be usable. Audio on Linux is not good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Was that with Jack?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Pipewire and Pipewire Jack drop-in replacement. Also with and without a rt kernel. They exhibited the exact same behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hava a look to Unfa's account on Mastodon.

https://mastodon.social/@unfa

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Tldr: all you need is kde x11 session

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Post-installation notes rather than installation guide (as he says in the writ).

Interested in trying it, &, as others note, with Audio (as well as Video) editing/creation software.

Audacity, Ardour, Blender to name a few.

Happy to hear of others, will be doing a bit more research.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Not a musician. Isn't ubuntu studio optimized for these kind of uses?