It’s been a week. Ubuntu Studio, and every day it’s something. I swear Linux is the OS version of owning a boat, it’s constant maintenance. Am I dumb, or doing something wrong?

After many issues, today I thought I had shit figured out, then played a game for the first time. All good, but the intro had some artifacts. I got curious, I have an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and thought that was weird. Looked it up, turns out Linux was using lvmpipe. Found a fix. Now it’s using my card, no more clipping, great!. But now my screen flickers. Narrowed it down to Vivaldi browser. Had to uninstall, which sucks and took a long time to figure out. Now I’m on Librewolf which I liked on windows but it’s a cpu hungry bitch on Linux (eating 3.2g of memory as I type this). Every goddamned time I fix something, it breaks something else.

This is just one of many, every day, issues.

I’m tired. I want to love Linux. I really do, but what the hell? Windows just worked.

I’ve resigned myself to “the boat life” but is there a better way? Am I missing something and it doesn’t have to be this hard, or is this what Linux is? If that’s it’s just like this I’m still sticking cause fuck Microsoft but you guys talk like Linux should be everyone’s first choice. I’d never recommend Linux to anyone I know, it doesn’t “just work”.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    No prob, always happy to help another user if I can, especially the newbies. I was you once, I remember many nights of wanting to rip my hair out and toss my computer out a window lol.

    Audio issues can be a bear. What is your current setup? DAC, Microphone, DAW of choice, etc?

    • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caOP
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      2 months ago

      Shotgun mic into Behringer UV1 into Scarlett 4i4. I went from Adobe Audition to Reaper and it’s been a fucking challenge. Adobe is a garbage company, but I didn’t pay for it:) I love FOSS so much but Ardour was a bitch and a half. ALSA is frustrating as well as you can’t use more than one program at a time and JACK and PulseAudio don’t seem to recognize the Scarlett so those are out. I’ve got things working, but it dumbs down to like 3 clicks per 1 on Audition. Takes more time overall.