[ubuntu-studio-users] Diversity

[Gord Williams]

/I appreciate the diversity of the distriution even though I don't use everything. I still make new discoveries of applications and some of them I will use, others not. The hard part for a distribution is what to include
and not and why. I use Kdenlive, others use OpenShot or Cinerella. Which to choose or include them all and get the 'bloatware' stamp? I think 14.04 will make the choices easier for users while still providing an easy startup OS for someone new./

Jimmy,  we all learn in different ways.  I think the commonality is we have an indent in the forehead at some point from applying the head against the wall liberally.

I don't know about bloatware,  because I personally do not measure the cycles my machine is doing while I am doing similar tasks to what you do as a sound engineer.  Mostly its about the ears right?

Being on both sides of the booth so to speak brings on a schizophrenic reaction that a few of us call creativity.  I suppose I move towards things that keeps me at the mic,  and in that zone,  rather than inventing new things to make stuff work.  That said,  I do tear down the studio and rebuild it every so often for upgrades and trouble shooting and that means I am probably more geeky than most of the cool announcer types I used to work with,  and many of the lightweights that have to completely order in for their new home recording studio.   I was kind of there before all that started to happen and was using both Linux and Windows in the worlds longest beta test.  Or you might say the dummest guy learning curve.

What I was talking about to put it back in context,  is making it easier for those who want to live the dream of recording something at home the world might care about,  without learning so much as they can go to WXYZ and dismantle and fix their studios during a commercial break.  Yes,  like that happens,  I know.

I still think its possible to group by functionality the software and be a little less diverse for the beginners, who have a craft or talent and would like to have a little fun at it,  or maybe help the world make a change.  Who knows.

I remember some time ago Ubuntustudio was described as an uncomplicated distribution with tools that artists need to get their work done without a lot of fuss and cost.

In the real world it seems that in Linux even in specialized distributions,  you get the buffet and you can't order from the menu based on your dietary requirements.

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