Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
Gordon

1..linux

you make good points but i just wish i could find a linux distro for music production without all the other 'faff' like net browser/office stuff etc etc as my studio never sees the 'net'.
i use other devices for the net.


It isn't the same, of course, but it's pretty easy to remove all the stuff you don't, though if you have it and don't use it it does nothing except take up a little hard drive space. You may want to be on the 'Net at install time, as it will collect stuff from online if necessary, though it's fairly likely it'll need nothing.

Some 'standard' stuff gets included simply because most people use it.
For that stuff, the quickest way is on the command like and looks like:
Code:
sudo apt remove firefox thunderbird libreoffice chromium

... give it your password when asked and it'll remove them all. It'll not fight back like MS does with Edge and removing most applications like that is unlikely to break anything.
If command line doesn't suit, there are GUI apps, e.g. Synaptic, that allow searches and have check-boxes. Users call. You can also go through the list and see what's installed/recommended and add/remove things then.

To give you an idea how far you can go with that, there's nothing that says Linux has to have a desktop environment. In the past, most of my infrastructure machines have been 'headless' as typically I administer them over an SSH login using command line only.

Incidentally, most or all Linux systems will pop up a dialog when there are updates asking whether to update now or remind you later. If/when you do the updates and (fairly rarely) a reboot is advised, it'll offer Reboot Now or not ... reboot when you're ready. None of the dirty Windows trick of popping up in the background and then rebooting without our say-so.

Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
my studio currently runs win10 of course and i only run the combo of bb//rb//reaps. done 90 songs with the combo.
but all the other win 'stuff' i never use so its wasted on me.

maybe i'm an 'old codger'...lol. cos i coded in the days
when we had competitions tween coders to see who could do the most features useing least computer resources..which is the way i was originally taught.


My approach to both hardware and software was to get the job done as well as I could. If that meant a faster processor and more memory, then that's what I did unless the on-cost would be greater than the time saved. If I had to get down and dirty with assembler and registers, that that also is what I did. In my last job, I did all of that alone. I did around 70% of the development work. The other 30% was done by five other people. Do it right, do it efficiently, do it well, don't close doors unless you have to. There are many different ways to optimise ... that's why computer teaching loves sorting and prime numbers ... lots of possibilities.

Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
i'm a stickler for setting a project studio up right , as a result i get no probs from win or the music apps i run.

That's why I run AVL:MXE ... iit's already optimised for audio and generally it works as one would like. There are a bunch of multimedia apps that you might choose to remove. Video editors, for example.

Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
the evo 4 i run is usb class compliant , with obviously some feature extensions not covered by the usb spec..but so do lots of interfaces mate.


From +++ here +++
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So this is my contribution on this piece of hardware: based on my personal experience, you should be fine with making it work on Linux, as long as you plug it once on a Windows computer and update its firmware using the software provided by the manufacturer.


Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
ps did you check out zorin linux os ?

Not yet ... I'm spending much of my time up ladders at the moment, sanding and painting.
I'll try to remember to have a look, but as all distributions differ a little, I try to stay with one when I can. At present I have two (well, three including Raspbian).

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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