That’s great advice, thank you. If I just copy my home directory I can replace it if things go south? What about other distros?

Good point, I just needed to vent I think. Honestly after bricking it after day 1 ( I made a user the owner and had no sudo privileges so I was in a login loop), day 2 was a lot easier so I guess I’m learning haha

Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol’ LINUX OS right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it.”

Shotgun mic into Behringer UV1 into Scarlett 4i4. I went from Adobe Audition to Reaper and it’s been a fucking challenge. Adobe is a garbage company, but I didn’t pay for it:) I love FOSS so much but Ardour was a bitch and a half. ALSA is frustrating as well as you can’t use more than one program at a time and JACK and PulseAudio don’t seem to recognize the Scarlett so those are out. I’ve got things working, but it dumbs down to like 3 clicks per 1 on Audition. Takes more time overall.

OK, you’re right on the money haha. I am on 24.04 (though not sure about LTS) and have been running Wayland, not X11, and it was the first version on the site. Big question is am I wiping everything to update? That seems silly but I’m super cautious now and don’t remember when I installed 24.04 if there was an option to do the ol’ Windows “update and keep everything” option. Do I just make another USB install and I can update while keeping settings or is this a full restart?

Not much of a gamer, I went with Ubuntu Studio because I’m a voice actor so audio was my primary (which was and is still a bitch to deal with haha). My system can handle games, and I wondered why something as non-intensive as Civ VII was clipping in the intro video.

I really appreciate you taking the time…again haha. I get that it’s a learning curve, my biggest issue is pretty user specific. I’m a freelance voice actor, which is why I chose Ubuntu Studio.

My concern for distro hopping is audio issues, more than I’ve already experienced. Ubuntu Studio was “built for creatives” so it seemed like the best option and based on my experience, it probably is haha. I can’t imagine trying to make this work from scratch.

The obvious answer is to go back to Windows, it really is WAY better for precise audio recording the easy way. Though I’ve matched (and even bettered) my audio output with Linux, it takes a lot more time and effort which won’t get better. Linux takes more steps for NY work flow and there’s no way around that.

That said, I made the switch for personal reasons, and I’ve fully committed even though it’s created many hurdles. I needed to vent, and really appreciate you and everyone else taking the time. Thank you.

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Nailed it. I’m really fucking frustrated and needed to vent. I have no regrets, in fact moving my PC to Linux (my work PC so it was a whole panic thing for a day or two) was the last piece to cut ties with big tech and every company who’s CEO was at Trump’s inauguration or has since “bent the knee”. Its been a long, stressful process, the last of which turned out to be the biggest effort. Thanks for the kind words.

I get what your trying to say, and the analogy works between Windows and Mac, just a different GUI and keyboard commands. Linux is like wearing someone else’s shoes and learning to run in them. It’s similar, but not the same.

Literally every day something breaks. I’m at a point I have things working enough that I’m scared of experimenting because it’s so fragile.

Appreciate it. I’ve decided to stick with Ubuntu Studio as long as I can duplicate my workflow before I make the switch. Think I got into my own head and indecision took over haha.

This helps a lot, thank you. I’ve been feeling overwhelmed about making sure I pick the best distro and there’s a lot of info bombardment. Additionally, I love this stuff so I know in a couple months there’s a good chance I’ll want to use another distro and I don’t want to wipe everything again haha.

I use my PC for work, freelance audio production, voiceover, music, etc. I’ve been testing Ubuntu Studio on my laptop and it seems to be going ok so far (learning curve and lack of software aside) but I keep seeing people shoot down Ubuntu. Everyone seems to be talking about Bazzite and CachyOS but honestly I’m getting the impression they don’t use Linux for much more than just gaming.

It all feels a little gate-keepy in ways and I got overwhelmed haha. Think I’ll just keep chipping away with Ubuntu Studio and see if it’ll do the trick for my main PC. Thanks again.

Really? I thought Ubuntu was one of the main distros?

Not an ai guy but appreciate you taking the time!

He didn’t just “study” he has a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and received a Fulbright Scholoarship at MIT. Pretty spot-on casting honestly.

Holy shit, so you can pretty much do anything? Like, if I wanted to clone a drive and have it monitored I could learn bash and write a script to, for example, at 2am every day copy all files created yesterday from here to here?

I’ll add it to look into. Thanks!

That’s awesome thanks. Sounds like a not-too-hard problem I can start learning with!

Server. It’s great for automation. SCRU is great because you can set the files by extension and will also auto extract rars. Set it and forget it.

Appreciate it!