[ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

[Alexandru Băluț]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 04:45, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:09:33 -0700, Hank Stanglow wrote:
> >growing emphasis on Snaps
>
> It's just a growing hype from a minority of Ubuntu developers
> involved in snap development.
>
> "Search thousands of snaps used by millions of people across 50 Linux
> distributions"
>
> https://snapcraft.io/store
>
> There's a reason for the missing pro-audio software, due to the
> container approach, it requires special interfaces to e.g. share the
> sound server by different apps.
>
>
> https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/install
>
> Which are those 50 distros?
>
> Arch isn't one of those, it's a misleading claim!
>
>
> https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/install-arch-linux
>
> The installation instructions are horrible!
>
>
> "Warning: AUR helpers are not supported by Arch Linux." -
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers
>
> "Arch Linux related mailing lists and other official Arch Linux support
> channels aren't an appropriate place to request help with snaps on Arch
> Linux." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Snapd#Support
>
>
> That something is "available", in the case of Arch Linux by something
> comparable to a PPA, doesn't mean that it's supported, or that the
> distro even supports the desired infrastructure.
>
> From the PKGBUILD's ./configure: "--disable-apparmor" -
> https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=snapd
>
> But even if you stay with Ubuntu and snaps, it's not easy to use it for
> pro-audio software, if possible at all.
>

People from Jack, PulseAudio, GStreamer, GNOME, KDE will meet at the end of
October for a hackfest about improving the Linux audio situation. If
successful, it seems this will make distributions focused on audio less
relevant.

"The idea that we can have a shared infrastructure for consumer level audio
and pro-audio under Linux really excites me and I do believe that if we do
this right, Linux will take a huge step forward as a natural home for
pro-audio desktop users." (Christian's opinion)

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2018/09/24/getting-the-team-together-to-revolutionize-linux-audio/
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