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Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu
Adam Wrzeski notes a piece up at Create Digital Music by musician Kim Cascone (artist's bio) on switching from Apple to Linux for audio production: "The [Apple] computer functioned as both sound design studio and stage instrument. I worked this way for ten years, faithfully following the upgrade path set forth by Apple and the various developers of the software I used. Continually upgrading required a substantial financial commitment on my part. ... I loaded up my Dell with a selection of Linux audio applications and brought it with me on tour as an emergency backup to my tottering PowerBook. The Mini 9 could play back four tracks of 24-bit/96 kHz audio with effects — not bad for a netbook. The solution to my financial constraint became clear, and I bought a refurbished Dell Studio 15, installed Ubuntu on it, and set it up for sound production and business administration. The total cost was around $600 for the laptop plus a donation to a software developer — a far cry from the $3000 price tag and weeks of my time it would have cost me to stay locked-in to Apple. After a couple of months of solid use, I have had no problems with my laptop or Ubuntu. Both have performed flawlessly, remaining stable and reliable."
figures. Don't bother to refute what I said, just call it "troll" and be done with it. Typical.
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Will this chink away at the myth that you need an Mac for anything creative?
Apple gives/sells cheaper Macs to school
School teaches students on Macs
Teacher knows only Macs
Students go to workplace and find Macs
Only Macs can do audio/video/image editing.
The same is true of MS, but for office applications. It's true because it's true.... i think in the world of Mac users, there seems to be a mindset of NO NO NO! PCs CAN'T EDIT VIDEO! LA LA LA LA!
i've done all three on both OSes. Having a right click is reason enough for me to use a PC. YMMV.
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Apple has always been this way. There were always some major releases that at least some programs had backport support to. A lot of OS 9 apps would run on 8.6, but not 7.5, or it would run on 7.5 but not System 7.0 due to networking improvements along the way. A lot of basic OS 9 programs would run on System 6 but not earlier. Windows hasn't changed a terrible lot since Win 2000. The Kernel went from 5.0 to 5.1 with XP, Vista was kernel version 6.0 (really, 5.2 or 5.5) and Win 7 is kernel 6.1 (really, 5.3 or 5.6)... so it's sort of assumed that backwards compatibility should be high with this version of Windows. It should be noted that most software written for 10.1 still runs just fine on x86 in 10.5.
BTW System 6 is still the fastest OS I've ever used, even being based off a floppy drive. Written in assembly, it just screams for internet (well, "internet"), word processing, etc. Boot time is less than 10 seconds.
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