[ubuntu-studio-users] A moment of peace and clarity.

[Pete Wright]

Personally what I like best about Ubuntustudio is the obvious dedication of
the team to making a great collection of tools "for creative humans" of all
types. Visual artists ought to feel at home here; certainly I do
(writer,film-maker, and photographer).

Tied for first place is the group of users I get a glimpse of on this and
other lists such as LAU and GIMP.

Heartfelt regards to all.
Pete


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Gord L Williams <info at gordlwilliams.com>wrote:
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>> Dear list,
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>> I have had reaction to some comments I have made,  and I have to say
>> everyone has acted in a very gentile manner.   Its good when we have
>> manners and can express our thought.   Perhaps thats why we are hear rather
>> than opening the box and dancing with the latest iPhone or Windows device.
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>> My comments where about not being able to move freely (FOSS) between
>> desktops and choice your poison - yes including imperfect bloatware.  Unity
>> anyone?  Gnome?   -  I actually like Gnome 3 because it presents those I
>> will call,  dancing people,  with a desktop that has a beat,  for them.
>>  "Its cool and I can dance to it."  to get American Bandstand about it.
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>> I was in no way attempting to take a swipe at anyone.  I think most of
>> you got that,  but apparently some people read things sideways. You can
>> expect that, if you make statements.  Probably why I will never be in
>> politics.
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>> If it was a perfect world,  any distribution would be the same in intent,
>>  regardless of desktop,  meaning menus and software would be the same.  In
>> my crazy world I envision ubuntu - astronomy,  which of course you can say
>> the prospects are looking up for.   Wait the big jokes come later....
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>> I see this as an advantage over  dancing peoples devices and os's. Tell
>> us what you are and we have something for you already. Perhaps its as easy
>> as having interest groups modify based on available software,   they choose
>> semi pro stuff like Ardour which seems to be tin-cup ware now,   and truly
>> FOSS. But that may not be the desire.
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>> Ubuntustudio does a great job of being a studio.  No knocks at all.   I
>> do not record at a studio professionally for a number of reasons.  The
>> setups and the bookings take time,  and your a number is one reason.  I
>> have recorded in a professional hardware based studio and I managed the
>> talent for that, so my reasoning isn't superfluous.  Sitting on the stool
>> talking into a $3000 microphone is a kick,  but doesn't bring it home
>> economically.   Studio time like that costs and has to be rolled into the
>> price.
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>> I have alway been about bringing that cost down,  and very Ubuntu about
>> what I do.  "If a traveler wanders into a village,  the village will see to
>> his needs without a thought as to what they need."   I believe Nelson
>> Mandella close enough.
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>> My point is if you can encourage more people to explore their talent as a
>> photographer,  graphic artist, and media producer,  the world will be
>> better.  If the distribution fits more people,  if they can make sense of
>> it without a huge learning curve and yes,  if they can dance around the
>> open box,  so to speak,  as humans tend to do then maybe we have something.
>>   We have something,  not just the geeks that watch their machine
>> efficiently eat up compute cycles for bragging rights.  Thats already
>> there,  enjoy your command line.
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>> Often there is great resistance to the paradigm shifting,  and there are
>> reasons and excuses not to move forward on it.   It is a good deal of work
>> for everyone involved in a distribution to make a change,  any change,
>>  even a small one.  A radical change in thinking even more so,  it can be
>> disruptive or worse.   So,  I do not propose that and I never will.
>> Ubuntustudio is a great distribution and has been a great distribution and
>> probably will continue to be so for years to come.
>>
>> That as they say is the bottom line,  thank you Ubuntustudio. Period.
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> ubuntustudio either fits your needs or it doesnt. it is what it is, and
> cant be what its not. one thing ubuntustudio does well is make sure that
> multimedia packages and meta packages are available and maintained in the
> default ubuntu repos. these are used by the ubuntustudio distro, but they
> can always (and usually quite easily) be added into whatever desktop anyone
> chooses to use, as well as in the spin-offs such as mint. if a user wants
> unity, they can install the main vanilla ubuntu and add what they want from
> the ubuntustudio pacakges. users are able to and encouraged to do so, and
> also, able to and encouraged to test, and make sure that things are working
> in other environments and report (constructively and properly) bugs and
> issues. there has been some great efforts made to make sure that
> ubuntustudio could be installed with several different desktops as well as
> many workflows.
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> as a user, its important to keep what is opinion separated from the facts.
> is ubuntustudio the best? i think it is, because i prefer it and it fits my
> needs well, but there are many other opensource options that utilize and
> provide the same tools, and well as many commercial offerings that offer
> ways to get the same work done... its really up to the individual to
> determine what is the best fit.. we all know that ubuntustudio is quite
> capable.
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> cheers and i hope you enjoy!
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