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In Reply to: RE: it is quite nice posted by bullethead on December 14, 2014 at 07:12:47
"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
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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
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