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Have been thinking strongly about switching from Ubuntu to Manjaro because it seems like my ideal distro in so many ways. Anyone here use it? Any reason that it wouldn't be equally compatible with u-he plugins?

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totheatom wrote: Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:55 pm Have been thinking strongly about switching from Ubuntu to Manjaro because it seems like my ideal distro in so many ways. Anyone here use it? Any reason that it wouldn't be equally compatible with u-he plugins?
Pretty much any modern distro should work fine.

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totheatom wrote: Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:55 pm Have been thinking strongly about switching from Ubuntu to Manjaro because it seems like my ideal distro in so many ways. Anyone here use it? Any reason that it wouldn't be equally compatible with u-he plugins?
Really better to have both, installed on separate drives.
Some ubuntu or spinoff for long-term compatability
and the short-term availability of new things,

Then keep one or more distros for specialties of preference.
You won't regret it. A small partition on a big back-up drive
makes sense. Or slip an SSD in the computer,
or in an external case etc etc
Cheers

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skottish wrote: Thu Jan 03, 2019 5:33 pm Pretty much any modern distro should work fine.
True, but the userbase of a given distro should also be a factor.
Some have a very small number of veteran audio users,
and most won't be on call. Debian/Ubuntu in 1st place,
though haggling too much over differences at times :hihi:

Arch has a smaller but very robust user group, and usually
happy sharing the campfire. The whiskey... not so much.

I suspect there are more Fedora/Redhat and Suse users
than meets the eye, like Fernando, who got in before the first
Ubuntu Studio dreamed of getting out (V 8.06 or so :party: )
and don't want hand-holding very often :uhuhuh:
Especially the throngs north of the arctic circle,
for whom a roast penguin or a pot of stewed walrus blubber
:love: cheers :love: the long lllonnnngggggg winter nights,
sunny as they may be :ud:
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agree with glokraw: best option is using manjaro and linux mint (or some other ubuntu style LTS...)

manjaro is great for everything and on my laptop runs considerably faster than other distros. Linux mint is also great , especially with the kxstudio repos for audio etc..

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Thanks again for the feedback, everyone.

For the two of you recommending that I keep a separate partition with Ubuntu (or similar) for additional support/functionality, just curious about the following:

1) Can you provide a practical example or two of when thisight be useful for my circumstances?

2) I'm about to build a new PC with two SSDs. One SSD will have Manjaro installed and all of the software/applications that I use and the other drive was going to be used for file storage. Which drive would you suggest placing that separate partition on? If I have all of the software installed on the main drive with Manjaro, would that partition still be able to use it or would it need its own software installed in that partition - like, say, if I wanted to use Reaper? Hope that makes sense. Just a little confused about this concept still.

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Hi. Three examples: security, availability, and productivity.
Productivity is jeopardized or limited by problems with
security and availability. Having a distro that historically
is first to have new or updated apps makes sense. You'll be quick
to know what they offer you. From there, it only makes sense
to install them on fastest and most stable system you can obtain.
Which could be Manjaro, or whatever distros you choose
to deeply configure for speed/stability. CCRMA was an early provider
of fast stable realtime Redhat (Centos/Fedora) audio systems.
Then DyneBolic/Dhoruba followed with bootable live CD distros.
Many users still opt for installing low-latency or realtime kernels,
once their software selection gets well settled.

Security must include hard-disk longevity. I would go with
at least one external bootable drive, and on any drives inside
a computer case, use multiple partitions, and leave enough
unused space, that you could format that for a rescue partition setup.
A separate /home/you partition need not be formatted, should
you do a fresh install of the same linux: your settings and
eye-candy will in place and ready. Might save you hours of
config time, and there is no guarantee that major system updates
will work as hoped for. SSDs will obviate some of risk
that cheap and crummy moving parts provide.

Security must also be measured by ones desire and/or ability
to learn linux beyond a few basics. The more one dreads
the thought of hearing the predawn birds chirping while
glaring at search engine results, the more one will appreciate
not having to rely on a single drive with one OS, and a uniform set
system configurations.

With linux apps that are not commercial, there will be those times
where a system that is heavy built for graphics and video, may not be
happy with demands made by audio software. This is another area
where you can divide and conquer, using linuxi on different
drives or partitions, to customize your productivity. You may need
a firebreathing graphics card on a visual-arts/video system,
and a fanless or quietized system for audio work.

Even with fast internet, I suggest having your package manager
save all downloaded packages, and keeping them backed up
along with all the family jewels. Software made by people
might have regressions, gaps in updates, be fully implemented,
or come to termination. If software is open-source,
a popular app may be forked, or the
maintenance picked up by a new dev/team, but it pays
to keep personal access to things you rely on day to day.

I had an external backup drive that failed early in life,
and the local expert had the recovery operation chugging away
for 9 days. It was the largest of my backup drives, and even with
six smaller drives holding triplicates, I was getting antsy, and when it
was ready, I re-checked everything, and found an important lapse,
since corrected.

....good grief, do I hear the birds chirping? :dog:

:wink: :wink:

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ahhh, some coffee helped :party:

For example, if two 500 gig SSDs, a root partition of 100 gig,
and a /home/you partition of 350 gig.
leave 50 gig unalocated for the SSD to do it's
file maneuvers (even if it claims to have such space set aside
at the factory. The 100 gig could hold default install locations
in /opt which are used by Harrison Mixbus, Bitwig, Wine-Staging,
perhaps Reaper at some point.

The second SSD, 450 gig, with 50 gig unallocated.
Consider having some ntfs formatted space if you'll be
interracting with msoft folks or hardware.
Santa says nothing good ever happens on a filesystem that is
70% or more full.
Please don't ask Santa how that one was figured out. :( :dog:

I'd want a bootable external drive also, or put the second SSD
in an external case in the interim, it will still be fast on recent usb ports.
Don't forget a good dvd burner and blanks to preserve your
popular creations :clap:
Cheers

edit: if you're in a high-crime area like me :evil: :x :evil:
there are extra physical provisions and protections needed.
If in bad weather or earthquake zones, you don't want
to be slow-dancing with Mother-Nature :scared:

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Great stuff. Provides much food for thought. Thank you. :)

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