is there linux distro focused on music production?

idk why people downvote... maybe they are all too deep into their bubble.. but you are correct that non-it inclinded people don't want to put the effort in to make something happen that is not supposed to happen

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victoryismind@reddit

Yes OP sounds like they mainly want to focus on doing music.

Telling them that any distro would work equally is useless at best and misleading at worse.

IDK why people are like this, I've seen such behavior many times and the best I can do really is try to stay calm and to move on.

It doesn't seem that they are motivated by making accurate statements or by contributing anything useful. They seem to be motivated by something else.

I guess if its just limited to having stupid opinions on Reddit and downvoting others then it's fine to let it be.

Thank you for understanding.

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BrunkerQueen@reddit

Containers, LD_PRELOAD, patchelf and friends disagree.

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sai_ismyname@reddit

mr.nonitperson disagrees

even as a it-professional i don't find it worth to tinker with elf patching and ld preload for a buggy mess that does not run stable... or does not run at all

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victoryismind@reddit

Honestly I think mr musician here wants to produce music not tinker with binaries and containers.

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Mister_Magister@reddit

that's wrong

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victoryismind@reddit

I said "practically impossible" because even if it is theoretically possible to get any software to run with any distro, not everyone has the time, skill and will to do it.

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Mister_Magister@reddit

almost no software is built and packaged specifically for one distro, there are exceptions, but most are available on all distros or have "compile yourself" instructions

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JJ3qnkpK@reddit

And quite often, people will repackage software from one distro to another. Takes a bit of work but that's like, a huge part of Arch's AUR.

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SirGlass@reddit

They all can run the same software.

This is why I hate when distros market themselves as "gaming distros" or multi media distros , or programming distros

All those distros do is pre-load a few packages , any distro can be a gaming distro if you install wine/proton/steam ect

Any distro can be a music distro a music distro if you install Audacity, Ocenaudio, gwave or what ever .

it confuses too many people were they think if they want to play a game they have to use some gaming distro or they won't be able to game or will have a sub par experience.

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Mister_Magister@reddit

same as all the difference versions of ubudububuntu when like opensuse can install every de, no need for separate images

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mofomeat@reddit

Maybe I'm out of the loop but I'm pretty sure you can install any and every de on just about any and every distribution of Linux. Most of it is EZPZ via package manager, and if not, you can always just build everything from source.

I'm not saying that building a whole desktop environment from source will be quick and painless, but it can be done.

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Mister_Magister@reddit

Yes what I'm saying, because of what you said, there's 0 point in making each DE different distribution like ubudubuntu does it

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SirGlass@reddit

Yea kind of dumb to create a gnome spin , KDE spin , XFCE spin

Just have an option "What DE do you want to install?"

I guess including all of them may make the install media a bit bigger but usually not an issue with USB drives unless you have a painfully slow internet or something

Or you can do a net install where you download a minimal install image then download the needed packages

I guess somewhat problematic if you have a painfully slow internet as well

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FunManufacturer723@reddit

Ubuntu Studio or Fedora Jam if you wish to try it out.

One of the very best distros for music production laptops are Arch, or something Arch-based like CachyOS. The package repositories have a pro audio group that is massive - including nonfree DAWS like Reaper and Bitwig, as well as a rich collection of plugins.

Arch have been my goto for music production for many years because of this.

It is not a beginner friendly distro, though.

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Compux72@reddit

Something like EndeavorOS with the calamares installer + ZFS is definetly user friendly

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Anonymo@reddit

Does this exist?

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Compux72@reddit

https://endeavouros.com/

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__rituraj@reddit

whats the gist of linux kernel with realtime support? is that something we must run for running DAWs

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

No you don’t need a real time kernel for daws. I personally would t use a real time kernel for music production. It’s not worth the down sides and if the computer is so low spec you need it you are far better off upgrading .

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FunManufacturer723@reddit

IIRC the realtime kernel patchset was merged in 6.12.

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__rituraj@reddit

oh so its mainline now. great

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brodoyouevenscript@reddit

Gosh I love the Linux community and seeing a good niche question get a good niche answer.

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

If some one is asking I wouldn’t want to point them Towards arch over Ubuntu studio etc. lol

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lordfairhair@reddit

How else will they know about me using arch?

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nix-solves-that-2317@reddit

ubuntu studio is what came to mind for me also
it also has a minimal install option if i remember correctly

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modified_tiger@reddit

Ubuntu Studio is a common one.

I personally have an Ubuntu Distrobox with the KXStudio repo added. Then I can use yabridge for my Windows VSTs, my Linux VSTs, KXStudio's apps, Renoise and Bitwig without installing it to my main system.

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5ee5-@reddit

Gentoo Studio

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Revolutionary-Yak371@reddit

Yes, you have an excellent AV Linux. AV Linux is based on MX Linux. While MX Linux is based on Antix Linux. Antix Linux is based on Debian without systemd.

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SirGlass@reddit

Here is a hint, there is no such thing as a distro focused on Gaming , Music , Programming

Its all marketing

Ubuntu studio is 100% the same as any ubuntu release , it just pre-installs some music software thats it

You can run any distro and take about 30 seconds after the install and install that. This is why I hate marketing for distros like this

People think if they want to game, they need a "gaming distro" , any distro can be turned into a gaming distro in 30 seconds if you install wine/proton/steam

All these dsitros do is pre-install some software in the base install , you can use literally about any distro you want and just install that software.

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

Ubuntu studio depending how you go about installing it you can gear it towards the work you want todo .

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SithLordRising@reddit

LMMS

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Big-Equivalent1053@reddit

Ubuntu studio

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dotnetdotcom@reddit

AVLinux www.bandshed.net/avlinux Comes with low-latency custom kernels. Though, I think it's supported by 1 guy.

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mikechant@reddit

Another recommendation for Ubuntu Studio.

It means you can just get stuck in straight away.

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MasterGeekMX@reddit

The distro does not matter, as what does the trick is having the adequate software. The same distro can be used for gaming, music production, coding, and digital drawing.

Distros that claim to be for a given use case simply pre-install programs for that task so you can start working as soon as posible. Ubuntu Studio is such, as it comes pre-loaded of programs for all kinds of creative work.

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victoryismind@reddit

Well you could look at the linux production software that you want, and see which distros they support.

For example, when it comes to video production, Davinci Studio supports Rocky Linux. They provide packages for that distro and it's tested. You'd have a hard time getting it to work with another distro.

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KnowZeroX@reddit

Distrobox can let you run Davinci on any linux with no issue.

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FattyDrake@reddit

Resolve is actually pretty easy to get working on other distros. More easily with RPM-based ones admittedly. Usually involves removing a few files and adding an environment variable.

It's not officially supported tho, you're right.

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Embarrassed-Ad-7500@reddit

You might want to spend some time in https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxaudio/. There is a lot of good feedback there.

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cgoldberg@reddit

Ubuntu Studio https://ubuntustudio.org

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Embarrassed-Ad-7500@reddit

AV Linux seems to have low latency. Has worked for me in the past,

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bruschghorn@reddit

You may have a look at Debian pure blends, specifically https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia

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youlikemoneytoo@reddit

I use Void Linux and recently installed Ubuntu Studio on another laptop.

also check in r/linuxaudio

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FattyDrake@reddit

It honestly doesn't matter what distro you use. I use Fedora and Reaper and it works fine.

What you might need to do is enable realtime parameters in the kernel. You need to be on kernel 6.13 or higher for that to properly work. Basically setting PREEMPT=FULL in your boot parameters.

Although Fedora has it set to "lazy" in current updates which might mean you don't encounter latency issues at all.

Also read up on pipewire (Linux's audio) and setting latency there too. You'll probably want to adjust that regardless.

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MarsDrums@reddit

I do music videos with multiple cameras and I have a professional Mixer (Tascam Model 24) for the job to record audio from my mics. I'm using the Cinnamon Desktop on Arch (BTW :) ) and it all works really well. I just recorded a cover of a song today. I recorded like 6 videos (attempts because I kept messing up the parts) and I'm going to go through those here shortly and see what's keep-able and what's not. Hoping to have A video to post on Facebook for a friend here this evening. If not I'll have to do it over again either this evening or tomorrow.

But anyway, Arch with Cinnamon is working pretty well actually. I like it because it has that Windows feel to it and I can move around rather easily with my left hand (I'm a righty but everything computer wise is to my left so I need to use my left hand mostly for computer stuff).

But yeah I think that no matter what you're playing, finding what you need to record with in Linux is pretty easy to do I think. If you know what you need to use in order to record yourself, then after you've installed it and set it up you should be good to go.

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