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In Reply to: RE: try the ubuntu forums posted by bullethead on December 14, 2014 at 03:24:59
Hi and thank you very much indeed for the link !
i think i will migrate to Ubuntu ... i had a very good impression during the installation ... quite straightforward indeed.
Also the GUI is nice
I will put it on the main pc but first i will check if the video card has the relevant driver
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
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I have Ubuntu based system on a 28 inch 4k monitor as my main machine. Using the latest Nvidia drivers on a intel quad core i5 with 24gb of ram and 5 terabytes of storage. Very nice.
been using Linux in all of it various forms from many companies since 1997. It takes awhile to learn a little bit but it is amazing once you get that hang of it.
"LTS stands for "Long Term Support release". These Ubuntu releases are considered to be especially stable and receive official support longer than normal releases. A new LTS comes out every 2 years."
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Hi and thanks a lot indeed
I am very ignorant in SW but i wonder if with the right HW this Ubuntu OS can sound better than win 7 64 bit
I know that opinions are quite different
I see more or less two parties, one of the people who think that the OS makes indeed a difference and another one of people who think that the real difference comes for instance from the HW.
As usual the answer will be both.
I have started asking about drivers and looking around now i think that with Ubuntu can be an issue. Every one develop drivers for WIN 7
and Mac ...
But i saw a list of usb dac with drivers for Ubuntu
I do not know what to do ... maybe i should stick with Win 7 and stop ?
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
Personally I wouldn’t look for USB DACs with proprietary drivers.
Most today designs support UAC2 (USB audio class 2).
As far as I know, most Linux distros do support UAC2.
I have tried Linux in 2009.
The idea is nice, open source.
Practice was a bit harder then I appreciated.
Didn’t like the Win3 style of the players either.
So I abandoned Linux
My limited experience is in the link below.
The Well Tempered Computer
Hi and thanks a lot for the very interesting and helpful advice
You say " Practice was a bit harder then I appreciated "
+1 !
It is not at all as easy as Win 7 but ... i do not know
Unfortunately i am hard at learning but it could be that it is really a very efficient and robust OS
Moreover the fact that slimmed down installations of Win 7 are said to sound better makes me wonder if Win7 is not too loaded with sw that actually is not needed for audio playback.
I would prefer on principle a very basic and powerful and stable OS and then add specific drivers
Fundamental is to keep the pc absolutely disconnected by the web, the origin of all nightmares.
I am about to receive a decent (i hope) usb dac that should work with Ubuntu, an Hegel HD11
As i like to play more than to listen to music ... i have also found a cheap usb to spdif converter that it is said to work also and bought it
Yesterday evening i installed on an old mini pc a copy of Openelec
It works nicely but i do not know if it can work with the nex incoming dac
Hope so. Thanks a lot again.
Kind regards,
bg
Edits: 12/16/14
Sorry. I have no idea about the potential sound quality of Ubuntu for audio. I am running a VMWare virtual machine to play with and a Nuc based server machine for a non-audio application.
The big advantage to me would be no need to throw money at evil M$ and the ability to look at source code to see what was going on and/or fix problems. However, this latter advantage assumes significant SW knowledge.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Hi and thanks a lot again
I have always heard great things about Linux OS, like being an high-end OS
But as i said i have no idea if this is true or only a radical-chic statement.
If this is true i would expecte a much bigger support from high-end and pro audio equipment manufacturers.
The lack of drivers is very impressive.
I wonder if this is the real cause for the huge Apple pcs popularity (i mean i do not know if there is a real superiority at HW level)
All major pro audio equipment is compatible with Apple OS (no ... i cannot become Applist ... )
This would make this OS to take off definitely
It would be pretty much everywhere.
Anyway i am looking around.
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
Edits: 12/17/14
Hi and sorry to disturb you again
So i decided to go back and install the older " 14.04 Long Term Support " version
but i did not understand this "LTS" thing completely
better to stick with this version ?
thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
Edits: 12/16/14
Hi and no more doubt
During the next weekend i will install it on the main pc ... that i like mostly because is quite silent at least from my listening point
And now with the latest addition of a 120 GB SSD is also much better at boot and SW loading
Thanks a lot again
Kind regards,
bg
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