Posts Tagged ‘kde neon’
A New Computer
I probably set up and configure (or reconfigure) at least ~5 computers a year for professional audio. A few years back I started configuring some machines to use Arch while continuing to mainly setup and use/support KDE Neon. The two Linux OSes share a lot (and can be functionally equivalent), but differ quite a bit…
Read MoreBad Pipewire! Bad KDE Linux!
It’s the end of May, Spring is slowly giving way to Summer as the bees buzz around flowering trees and Pipewire is broken on KDE Linux again. It’s a poetic tale as old as time, well, at least as old as Pipewire. Or KDE Neon. Or both. (or maybe it’s just my janky old system…
Read MoreA Flawless Linux Audio Experience…
I’m not just an emissary for Linux Audio, like everyone else who relies on it and extols its (few) virtues, I’m also its biggest detractor. So when you read “a flawless linux audio experience” you might think I’m trolling you, and in the distant past (say several months ago) you would definitely be correct. But…
Read MoreRunning A University Linux-based Audio Lab: Part 4 — Updates and Brokenness
Part 1: Hosing Down your Computers In an earlier post about setting up and maintaining a Linux audio lab I wrote: Above I mentioned that cron-apt is used to check package status (daily) and use the email packages to email package status to the system admin (me). This, however, is not configured to auto update…
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