Personally what I like best about Ubuntustudio is the obvious dedication of the team to making a great collection of tools "for creative humans" of all types. Visual artists ought to feel at home here; certainly I do (writer,film-maker, and photographer).
Tied for first place is the group of users I get a glimpse of on this and other lists such as LAU and GIMP. Heartfelt regards to all. Pete On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Mike Holstein <mikeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Gord L Williams > <i...@gordlwilliams.com>wrote: > >> Dear list, >> >> I have had reaction to some comments I have made, and I have to say >> everyone has acted in a very gentile manner. Its good when we have >> manners and can express our thought. Perhaps thats why we are hear rather >> than opening the box and dancing with the latest iPhone or Windows device. >> >> My comments where about not being able to move freely (FOSS) between >> desktops and choice your poison - yes including imperfect bloatware. Unity >> anyone? Gnome? - I actually like Gnome 3 because it presents those I >> will call, dancing people, with a desktop that has a beat, for them. >> "Its cool and I can dance to it." to get American Bandstand about it. >> >> I was in no way attempting to take a swipe at anyone. I think most of >> you got that, but apparently some people read things sideways. You can >> expect that, if you make statements. Probably why I will never be in >> politics. >> >> If it was a perfect world, any distribution would be the same in intent, >> regardless of desktop, meaning menus and software would be the same. In >> my crazy world I envision ubuntu - astronomy, which of course you can say >> the prospects are looking up for. Wait the big jokes come later.... >> >> I see this as an advantage over dancing peoples devices and os's. Tell >> us what you are and we have something for you already. Perhaps its as easy >> as having interest groups modify based on available software, they choose >> semi pro stuff like Ardour which seems to be tin-cup ware now, and truly >> FOSS. But that may not be the desire. >> >> Ubuntustudio does a great job of being a studio. No knocks at all. I >> do not record at a studio professionally for a number of reasons. The >> setups and the bookings take time, and your a number is one reason. I >> have recorded in a professional hardware based studio and I managed the >> talent for that, so my reasoning isn't superfluous. Sitting on the stool >> talking into a $3000 microphone is a kick, but doesn't bring it home >> economically. Studio time like that costs and has to be rolled into the >> price. >> >> I have alway been about bringing that cost down, and very Ubuntu about >> what I do. "If a traveler wanders into a village, the village will see to >> his needs without a thought as to what they need." I believe Nelson >> Mandella close enough. >> >> My point is if you can encourage more people to explore their talent as a >> photographer, graphic artist, and media producer, the world will be >> better. If the distribution fits more people, if they can make sense of >> it without a huge learning curve and yes, if they can dance around the >> open box, so to speak, as humans tend to do then maybe we have something. >> We have something, not just the geeks that watch their machine >> efficiently eat up compute cycles for bragging rights. Thats already >> there, enjoy your command line. >> >> Often there is great resistance to the paradigm shifting, and there are >> reasons and excuses not to move forward on it. It is a good deal of work >> for everyone involved in a distribution to make a change, any change, >> even a small one. A radical change in thinking even more so, it can be >> disruptive or worse. So, I do not propose that and I never will. >> Ubuntustudio is a great distribution and has been a great distribution and >> probably will continue to be so for years to come. >> >> That as they say is the bottom line, thank you Ubuntustudio. Period. > > > > ubuntustudio either fits your needs or it doesnt. it is what it is, and > cant be what its not. one thing ubuntustudio does well is make sure that > multimedia packages and meta packages are available and maintained in the > default ubuntu repos. these are used by the ubuntustudio distro, but they > can always (and usually quite easily) be added into whatever desktop anyone > chooses to use, as well as in the spin-offs such as mint. if a user wants > unity, they can install the main vanilla ubuntu and add what they want from > the ubuntustudio pacakges. users are able to and encouraged to do so, and > also, able to and encouraged to test, and make sure that things are working > in other environments and report (constructively and properly) bugs and > issues. there has been some great efforts made to make sure that > ubuntustudio could be installed with several different desktops as well as > many workflows. > > as a user, its important to keep what is opinion separated from the facts. > is ubuntustudio the best? i think it is, because i prefer it and it fits my > needs well, but there are many other opensource options that utilize and > provide the same tools, and well as many commercial offerings that offer > ways to get the same work done... its really up to the individual to > determine what is the best fit.. we all know that ubuntustudio is quite > capable. > > cheers and i hope you enjoy! > > > >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-studio-users mailing list >> ubuntu-studio-users@lists.**ubuntu.com<ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** >> mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-**studio-users<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users> >> > > > > -- > MH > > mikeholstein.info <http://www.mikeholstein.info/> > > > -- > ubuntu-studio-users mailing list > ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > >
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