And if waving a dead chicken over the laptop would have been empirically proven before my own eyes to get better performance, I would have done that too.
I don't remember how exactly I arrived at my choice of distro, kernel flags, window manager or decision to run all critical audio apps as root. Bad geek that I am. But I can say I spent a year (back when I was a good geek and cared about this stuff) researching how to get the best I could out of PD + Linux on my own hardware and for my own purposes, and these are the things I learned. Laugh if you like. d. ydegoyon wrote: > Derek Holzer wrote: >> I run PD as root (not sudo, but real root) > > do you think there is a difference? > ok we enter mysticism, > do you burn some incent too before starting your machine_? > > well, hey > > sevy > -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ---Oblique Strategy # 45: "Disciplined self-indulgence" _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
