Taking a seat in a full class to fuck around on your phone could fit that bill. Someone else might have wanted to be in your seat. In this scenario, your actions in that class could have repercussions beyond just the classroom.

Good to hear someone say it’s a good distro. I’m totally fine learning as I go, just didn’t realize how different they can be. Kinda thought it was Arch for the pros and everything else was accessible easily. I’m loving learning it, and happy to hear I picked a bit of a harder one to start, it’s how I learn best. I was just frustrated.

Unfortunately the only audio I’ve been able to get to work right for my use case is Alsa, I can’t route anything through my mic interfaces with Pipewire or JACK.

I’m getting the hang of it, but it doesn’t help that my PC is also my media server so that was another layer to figure out. It’s been a journey.

Could be. I’m getting the hang of it but the first bit was literally “this doesn’t work”, found a fix, which made something else not work, etc. Drive permissions were a big hassle, I’ve got things going but it’s been a huge learning curve.

Yeah, now that I’m getting used to it I’m probably gonna test some others on my laptop. Ubuntu seems finicky with my hardware. I REALLY don’t want to start over though, I’ve spent a lot of time this week setting things up and starting from scratch with another distro seems like a pain in the ass and a risk if I can’t get things (audio recording) to work right.

Yeah, I chose it because it’s built for creatives. I do audio work, voice acting, music, etc and I was scared I wouldn’t be able to do my work. Studio seemed safest.

I’m a freelance voice actor and musician. I was concerned I wouldn’t be able to do what I need to do and Ubuntu Studio seemed safest as it’s “designed” for this stuff.

Awesome thanks. I’m still trying to get the iso on a usb haha. Ventoy didn’t work for me, nor Etcher or Startup. Getting the live iso now to see if that’ll work… Always something!

I might give that a go. I’m throwing Bazzite on it right now to test it out. I really don’t want to start from scratch again with my main PC but if Bazzite does what I need I might be better off. I’m guessing since it’s based on Fedora backing up my home directory probably won’t work but I’ll look onto it if I go that route.

Good thing I tested, going from 24.04 to 25.04 completely borked my laptop. Currently reinstalling 24.04 and gonna see if I can go to 24.10. Can’t seem to find a way so far, only option I have is 25.04.

I just installed and ran update-manager and it says there’s an upgrade to 25.04, no mention of 24.10. I’m assuming this should be ok?

Edit: I’m an idiot with too much Linux on the brain. I have Studio installed on my laptop as well. I’m gonna jump straight to 25.04 on there and test. Thanks.

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.