[ubuntu-studio-users] Upgrade to 19.10

[Neil McBennett]

Hello All,
I upgraded to 19.10 as I wanted to find a distribution that would finally
allow me to play audio regardless of whether it was streaming via Youtube
or Spotify or from my DAW or any place I care to run it. So I upgraded as I
was sick of the Pulseaudio vs Jackd battle. Still I seem to have the choice
of one or the other (but not both) and then I have to stop or start jack
and all the pain that this brings.

On top of this the menu system randomly removes whole categories without
any user intervention. Then there are the constant crashes where bizarrely
the audio carries on playing after the rest of the system is dead.

I tried the Gnome desktop thing with Wayland but there the screensaver
doesn't work and there are no menus meaning you have to memorize the names
of any programs you may want to run and search for them.

I do appreciate that this is open source and I know people put in huge
amounts of time. But with each release I guess I kind of hope this finally
will be where Linux really gets to show how good it is.

I am now looking at doing a complete fresh install of an OS but not yet
decided on which flavor or even if it should be Linux. The jack vs
Pulseaudio in my opinion is a massive design flaw and as long as that
remains this will never be accepted as a serious music platform which is a
shame.
Sorry for the rant - I really wanted to be able to use this but I guess
it's not ready yet.

HouseMartin
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