[ubuntu-studio-users] ubuntu-studio-users Digest, Vol 78, Issue 11

[Gord L Williams]

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I agree,  ease of use and ease of learning are two different things.  
Try running a computer store around the time that DOS based Windows was 
dominant,  and telling people that you can't really have a machine that 
will 'last five years'.   Or worse explaining why when junior put the 
game on the system,  Wordperfect doesn't work because the drivers were 
replaced with conflicting drivers.   This was a completely different 
soup,  but similar enough ingredients.

My comments were assuming (dangerous ass word)  that it was someone like 
me who is fairly technical in background,  and yes I can switch my own 
desktop,  or follow the cut and pastes that are out there. CLI doesn't 
scare me in the least.

The people who want a machine 'to last five years' (be relevant and up 
to date) probably aren't the market for any 'Nix.  Stay away, its voodoo.

The people that Ubuntu and particularly specific flavours of Ubuntu like 
Ubuntustudio are aimed at can fend for themselves as a rule.  I would 
hope so,  but I am seeing some people that are just are playing with it 
to see what it is.  Some who by all indicators are interested in just 
dancing to the music it makes out of the box, in other words, "it 
should......"

Must drive programmers and distributions crazy that monitor this stuff 
and try to listen.   Also I run the risk of sounding like one of those,  
at least to an extent.

I am saying specifically this.   Ubuntu vanilla flavour takes a lot of 
work to get it to a state where you would like it to be for audio (my 
discipline)  and you end up with Ubuntustudio (settings and everything 
probably come from the packages)  maybe you have your desktop,  but in 
all essence yes.

As I have been saying most studios are for recording,  period. Anything 
from a bird chirping to a tuba.   Though most probably record music.  
There are divisions within studio's,  some are broadcast,   some are 
meant for acoustic,  some are for mastering and the list goes on.   I am 
not so unrealistic as to say that a complete mastering studio should be 
installable out of the box, but some of the things you never use,  such 
as a guitar box should be easily removable,  preferably not at all when 
your installing to begin with.

So what I have been talking about is an interactive install. Something 
like "No command line programs,  no synths (or all syths),  no ladspa 
plugins,  some plugins for eq only.    The user then builds a system 
more likely to be closer to actual use.

That perhaps is a little different than ease of use.   Instead of 10 
synths or trackers,   all recording programs,  or all FOSS.   The user 
decides and may have a little help with the most likely programs to fit 
the need.   But isn't left with a long list of programs likely to never 
be used.

Ubuntustudio has the least unwieldy menus of all.   My comments stemmed 
from the idea it could focus a bit further than it does, but thats up to 
the maintainers of the distribution.  It was and remains not a should do 
this or should do that.   I think I may know better to suggest that.