Kubuntu Studio

Holy smokes.  This is a long story.

I’ll shorten it.

Almost a month ago, I destroyed my music room.  I took everything apart, spread the various bits of my life around my house, and rebuilt it from scratch.  New paint on the walls.  A new wooden floor.  A completely new arrangement.

Then, not content with that bit of chaos, I destroyed my computer system.  I saved all the good bits, backed everything up into crosschecked archives, and wiped both hard drives for a completely new install.

See, I had been running Debian.  It worked well for many years, but some of the new Linux features I needed for making music were . . . let’s say “difficult to figure out“, especially in the limited amount of time that I have each evening.

I went with Ubuntu.  I had heard the install process was like magic — choosing the correct drivers, detecting all the hardware, setting up the system.

It was!

Now, one of the features that made me shift was the need for realtime audio recording on the computer.  This was difficult to get perfected with my ancient Debian system.  But when I did some research, I found there was a version of Ubuntu that was perfect for audiovisual work — Ubuntu Studio.

However, about this time, I’d been working with a new music program called Rosegarden.  (MIDI and keyboard work feature a lot more prominently in my new music, for example, La vie sous la mer.)  Rosegarden introduced me to KDE.  I figured I’d give KDE a try.

And I liked it far, far better than anything I’d seen before.

Therefore, I actually installed my system as Kubuntu (KDE + Ubuntu), but with the Ubuntu Studio packages . . .

Making my system, I guess — Kubuntu Studio!

(And of course, my computer’s name is “bermuda-depths”, in case you couldn’t have guessed.)

Anyway, I’d like to welcome to my page anyone who has wandered here from my new homes at the Ubuntu or Kubuntu forums.   In case you’re new to this page, yes, I’m a musician.  When I’m not formatting hard drives and installing wood floors