<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class="">Kaj Ailomaa</span> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Ubuntu Studio is not specific to a desktop environment, and there are</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">plans (but no concrete work) on making Ubuntu Studio desktop agnostic,</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">making it possible to choose your favorite DE during installation of</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Ubuntu Studio (when having an internet connection).</span></div></blockquote></div>…<div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; float: none; display: inline !important;">So, if you really feel like switching DEs is a good idea, keep the topic</span><br class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; float: none; display: inline !important;">going, and see who would like to work on that. I would rather make</span><br class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; float: none; display: inline !important;">Ubuntu Studio desktop agnostic instead, and improve how one can make any</span><br class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; float: none; display: inline !important;">Ubuntu flavor quickly suitable for audio production specifically, since</span><br class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; float: none; display: inline !important;">the other areas don't suffer as much from generic system settings.</span></blockquote><br class=""></div></div><div class="">I don’t really have an agenda - I’m doing graphics programming to up my skills - looking forward to Vulkan. I’m running Linux because I grew up on commercial Unixes (SGI, Sun, Digital's Alpha), but it’s been 15 years of Mac and Windows and I can see I don’t have the the working knowledge of the Linux world to be a contributor yet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have no specific agenda - getting used to this new “digital home” (as <font face="Menlo-Regular" class="">Set Sakrecoer described it) means dealing with my preferred peripherals (tablet is a biggie, since I like to draw).</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think trying a few different desktop environments might be a good idea (I have spare OS partitions if I get stuck and need to reinstall!). If spamming the list is a waste, I’d be happy to get recommendations directly: <a href="mailto:daniel@syntheticblue.com" class="">daniel@syntheticblue.com</a> — Thanks!</div></body></html>