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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by just_testing on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:14AM (#16932040)
Yesterday, I finished converting a bike shop to Ubuntu Linux only.

They are ridiculously happy because: - device drivers actually work - they don't have to worry anymore about viruses - they can use old machines without trouble

So yeah, zero customization - but a way better experience than Windows.

So, your crowd not only exists, but got me a new bicycle!

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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by emptyfile on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:42AM (#16932259)
Funny, device drivers are the precise reason I switched to Windows 10.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by MadcapJake on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:04AM (#16932511)
Unfortunately in the music production world, Windows or OSX are the only options if you want to customize your hardware (sequencers, synthesizers, etc) or import patches/presets. I think this is largely because no major DAW has Linux support.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by lists on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:42PM (#16933471)
So thank you, Bitwig Studio https://www.bitwig.com/
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by wilsonnb on Thursday April 26, 2018 @02:04PM (#16934101)
Bitwig Studio is great for the Linux audio world but the real problem is plug-in compatibility on Linux.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by rkangel on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:46AM (#16932302)
In general, if you want AMD or Nvidia graphics drivers then Windows is easier. If you want anything else (including Intel graphics drivers) then Linux is easier.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by hsivonen on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:16AM (#16932628)
Like Intel graphics, AMD graphics now work with Free drivers. The kernel just needs to be new enough to contain new-enough version of the driver, so in the case of Ubuntu 16.04, it was necessary to use the "hwe" package variants.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by ben-schaaf on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:04AM (#16932516)
I always find it funny how hardware manufacturers most of the time ship a bunch of drivers with their components. Windows drivers for wireless cards, motherboards, graphics cards, etc. Never needed any of those for Linux (The open source AMDGPU driver is good enough).
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by stubish on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:29PM (#16937745)
To be fair, I don't recall the last time I needed them with Windows, either. I think the CDs are for old versions of Windows, running on old machines that still have a CD drive.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by bovermyer on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:21AM (#16932103)
That's awesome. Was that a barter deal? Fix-our-computers-get-a-bike?
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by just_testing on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:36AM (#16941563)
At first, it wasn't.

Buuut so many great bikes (and I ride to work every single day) and it was hard to accept the money.

I joke to people telling I am an addicted doing work for the drug dealer - of course I would receive in drugs, not money!

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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by bfranklyn on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:38AM (#16932830)
"they don't have to worry anymore about viruses " lol!
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by just_testing on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:37AM (#16941576)
A Local Bike Shop without any huge internet operation? They aren't exactly the target for most high-profile linux rootkits.
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