What problem? ;-)
I think it's a great gift that we have a special flavour of Ubuntu
packed with all sorts of media tools. Heading towards free choice of DE
and metas it will only get better.
While I don't know or understand or bother to find out how to use most
of the programs available, I appreciate that they're there. When finding
solutions on the internet, sometimes it turns out the program I need is
already installed, while if not, it's likely to be found in the
repositories.
Unless running rather ancient hardware space shouldn't be an issue,
either. The only complaint I would agree with is that program
descriptions are sometimes unhelpful, at least to us beginners. "LV2
plugins host for JACK" can sound pretty cryptic...
Also a bit confusing is the libav / ffmpeg schism. I had some trouble
creating dvd iso's. To solve the problem I tried to use ffmpeg instead
of ffmpeg (a bit tongue-in-cheek, yes) and I'm still not sure if I
succeeded.
But basically I think Ubuntu Studio is a great project and that folks
like Kaj who spend countless hours on it... Well, I hope you hear as
often as you deserve that your work is appreciated!
Al F
On 06. okt. 2013 20:10, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
The solution to this problem will be fixed for 14.04, namely, the
user will have the choice which metas to install. Maybe it might even
be worth thinking about per package selection, but this remains to be
seen.
In your case it sounds to me that what you want to do is not install
any metas, and add individual packages afterwards, am I correct?
The whole point of the metas is to provide all possible workflows,
and at the same time work as a showcase for new users. It's a way to
show what is available. There's no way we can make the metas suite
every individuals particular needs. And if someone wants to see a
wider range of metas, I'd like to see compelling reasons for doing
so. Currently, the ISO is quite small, about 2.5 GB. The menu is not
cluttered, thanks to our custom categorization. From my POV, it's
pretty well organized in that sense.
Ardour is not more advanced than it needs to be for what it is
designed for. It's the only decent recording/mixing application for
Linux, if you ask me. Audacity is not a recording tool at all. It's
an audio wave editor. All though you can use it to both do multitrack
recording and mixing, that is not what it was designed for, and it's
quite poor at it as well.
There's no getting around it. If you need to perform a task, you need
to learn how to do it. Sometimes, what you need is to code stuff
yourself, which is what I've found and which is why I use puredata.
But, granted, not everyone will want to do that. Not everyone will
want to use LMMS either. And some people will only want to use
supercollider.
Making applications easier to use is not something we can change in
Ubuntu Studio, other than providing documentation and doing
tutorials. If you need smarter applications, you need to either code
them yourself, or help develop existing ones. We just provide them on
our ISO.
There's been talk about providing an abstraction, in the form of an
application or by using existing tools for sessions management, to
make it easier for new users to find how to use the existing
applications in the system. But, someone will need to develop that..
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