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Originally Posted by gpunk_w
Just read this thread, there is twelve billion distros of Linux and even the one that is supposedly boot and go is a mess for new users (AVLinux)
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Of all the distros available, why the insistence on AVLinux? It's maintained by one person and has a pretty small user base, so expecting it to be a perfectly smooth installation on whatever random hardware user X has seems overly optimistic.
Other distros also have the real-time kernel.
Other distros also cut down on bloat.
Other distros are also pretty straightforward to install and get running.
YMMV, but Ubuntu Studio was no more difficult to set up than Windows here, aside from things like my mouse that don't have Linux support and need a bit of hacking. The installer lets you choose which bundles (video, audio, photo, web design, etc) to include, and the software manager lets you remove whatever you don't want (other DAWs, say) with ease. Reaper installed fine, worked with PulseAudio out of the box, and worked directly with ALSA for the few minutes I fiddled with it.