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New DVD burn of Ubuntu Studio won't load - not sure why. Could be a bad burn or the DVD drive in the machine is dying. So the broken Ubuntu Studio install was fixed by reinstalling some packages via the GRUB menu. I didn't know I could do that - so I learned something new today.
I'm not sure how long I'll be using that particular system - it's always been a bit problematic. The motherboard is ancient and one stick of RAM has already given up the ghost.
One of the problems with the Windows XP machine was an incorrect audio driver. It took me awhile to find the right one. I still don't have Internet on it - probably another driver issue - but I'm pretty sure I don't want to be on the Internet with an XP machine. I shouldn't complain - it's a hack of several machines cobbled together. I should check the RAM too as it's mismatched.
I also had a scare with one of my Ethernet hubs. It's the oldest one of the bunch and every few years it needs to be rebooted once or twice by unplugging it. My home network is a bit of a Rube Goldberg with several hubs daisy chained together but most of the time it works well enough and it covers a lot of the house.
Then my media rig started beeping at me instead of booting. Four beeps on a Dell system means there's a memory issue. Scary. Re-seating the memory sticks seemed to fix that. I'll have to keep on eye on that because it's done this once before.
I've been gifted another unwanted system which I may use as my *next* media rig. Although I don't like that Ubuntu Studio went from XFCE (light weight and clean) to KDE Plasma (shiny and more of a resource hog) as the desktop, it mostly does everything I need to do right out of the box. Graphics? GIMP. Video? KDEnLIVE. Audio? Audacity for simple stuff, QTracker (which is just okay) and Ardour (which I don't like they layout of). Reaper is 'experimental' but I have run it. It's only 60 bucks so I might go for it.
I have to use the version of LMMS - my main music composing software - from the main website as the version in Ubuntu Studio doesn't support VSTs. I'm not sure why they don't use the main version. You need do WINE and it only handles 32 bit VSTs but there are still a fair number that can be used. WINE doesn't come preinstalled so that may be an issue.
I'm babbling. Sorry.
I'm not sure how long I'll be using that particular system - it's always been a bit problematic. The motherboard is ancient and one stick of RAM has already given up the ghost.
One of the problems with the Windows XP machine was an incorrect audio driver. It took me awhile to find the right one. I still don't have Internet on it - probably another driver issue - but I'm pretty sure I don't want to be on the Internet with an XP machine. I shouldn't complain - it's a hack of several machines cobbled together. I should check the RAM too as it's mismatched.
I also had a scare with one of my Ethernet hubs. It's the oldest one of the bunch and every few years it needs to be rebooted once or twice by unplugging it. My home network is a bit of a Rube Goldberg with several hubs daisy chained together but most of the time it works well enough and it covers a lot of the house.
Then my media rig started beeping at me instead of booting. Four beeps on a Dell system means there's a memory issue. Scary. Re-seating the memory sticks seemed to fix that. I'll have to keep on eye on that because it's done this once before.
I've been gifted another unwanted system which I may use as my *next* media rig. Although I don't like that Ubuntu Studio went from XFCE (light weight and clean) to KDE Plasma (shiny and more of a resource hog) as the desktop, it mostly does everything I need to do right out of the box. Graphics? GIMP. Video? KDEnLIVE. Audio? Audacity for simple stuff, QTracker (which is just okay) and Ardour (which I don't like they layout of). Reaper is 'experimental' but I have run it. It's only 60 bucks so I might go for it.
I have to use the version of LMMS - my main music composing software - from the main website as the version in Ubuntu Studio doesn't support VSTs. I'm not sure why they don't use the main version. You need do WINE and it only handles 32 bit VSTs but there are still a fair number that can be used. WINE doesn't come preinstalled so that may be an issue.
I'm babbling. Sorry.
