[ubuntu-studio-users] Upgrade to 19.10

[Thomas Pfundt]

Hi Neil,

On Thursday, 31 October 2019 02:06, Neil McBennett <neil at mcbennett.net> wrote:

> 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.

Ubuntu Studio Controls and QJackCtl should be able to do this. I can only speak for 18.04, but I don't assume this has fundamentally changed in 19.10, so you should be able to have Pulseaudio stream through Jack automatically without issues.

I use Jack to have a system-wide EQ for all sound output, Pulseaudio and Jack direct, this guide has helped me a lot in understanding how QJackCtl works and what can be done, you could leave out the EQ part and use it to set up Jack/Pulseaudio: https://github.com/M4he/Linux/tree/master/JACK/PA_through_JACK

On Thursday, 31 October 2019 02:06, Neil McBennett <neil at mcbennett.net> wrote:

> On top of this the menu system randomly removes whole categories without any user intervention.

The menu issue has been existing since 16.04, I believe, I don't know what exactly causes it and it's rare, but you can just restore them by installing "alacarte" and clicking "Restore System Configuration".

On Thursday, 31 October 2019 02:06, Neil McBennett <neil at mcbennett.net> wrote:

> 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.

This is a matter of taste, but I've run Gnome for a while and wasn't happy with it at all, coming from Xfce. The Dashboard feels unintuitive and the frequent programs tab didn't work for me. Also, I use Reaper as my DAW and it installs multiple different launchers, so with the character limitation, I always got "REAPER (x64)...", "REAPER (x64)...", "REAPER (x64)..." and I had to guess which launcher I have to start.

Wayland is still a bit unstable at times and I can't tell what system configuration/hardware works best at this time. Unfortunately, Gnome with X has been very sluggish and a bit laggy in the recent versions, I don't know how it is in 19.10.

I think Xfce is an excellent DE for conventional workstation use. If you want to try something in-between, you could give KDE a shot. It's also much more configurable than Gnome.
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