[PD] New on ubuntu: where to go now

[Yvan Vander Sanden]

João Miguel Pais wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm, again, going to try to step into linux world, and see if I can do  
> something more useful with it than visiting webforums this time.
>   
Great!  
> How to get -1ms latency? Does  
> Ubuntu studio makes a difference? 
Ubuntu studio has more audio packages to choose from. More-over, it has 
a realtime kernel. (For the next version, they're also working on a 
tickless kernel. That should give you lower latency.

> Why is jack so complicated to start? 
It's not :-) Seriously, Jack is hard to setup, but once you've figured 
that out, you can use the jack control panel, which is quite easy. If 
you have trouble with that, just ask. (I'll be away until the end of the 
week though.)

> Is  
> ardour already working? (last time I saw it in the school's studio, the  
> only way to have a session open for a long time was not to touch it) ...  
>
>   
Ardour is working really good these days, it's said. Have not used it 
myself yet.
> I'm not a beginner with computers, but I'm not yet very at ease in unix  
> console, because quite soon it gets very frustrating - although I would  
> like to learn, but don't have time to be spending on man pages. And I  
> don't do emacs, or won't go straight to debian.
>   
Open configuration files in gedit. If you start it with sudo, you can 
save changes to your system configuration.


Regards and good luck,

yvan