I’ve been searching around for the right linux raft I need to jump off of the sinking microsoft ship, and I am currently considering giving Ubuntu Studio a go. My primary activities are music production and gaming, so the massive number of creative tools that are available seem like it would really level up my music production game, and possibly inspire me to try out some other creative avenues as well. It’s kind of amazing to see the possibilities with all the free software out there these days.
So, does anyone use Ubuntu Studio, and do you have any tips or any things to watch out for as far as quirks? Would this be a good option as a first install, or should I go with something else?
I have used multiple brands of audio interface with between one and over fifty mono inputs to record, loop and analyze signals in real time on windows, linux and macos. I have used amd, intel, nvidia and arm/apple gpus to play games on linux, windows and macOS.
If you can tolerate the old man gaming experience of fiddling with some settings, maybe editing a text file or something then you’ll have a better time gaming on linux than on windows.
If you understand what your daw is doing under the hood then you will do fine using linux for production. If you need to use a specific daw or you need to be able to use its plugins on an alternate platform without much effort you won’t have an easy time.
Ubuntu studio is probably a bad choice. You’re likely better off starting from the ground up with a non-Ubuntu distribution. Especially if you have a paid copy of reaper then you’ll have no problem finding support for whatever you wanna do.