Audio on Linux, like all things, is a deep deep rabbit hole. Whatever you want to do, you can. Whether it’ll be easy, or accessible through a GUI, or if you’ll have to write your own scripts, who knows. Everything is on the table.
The best way to get answers is to ask directly in the community for your chosen distro. A lot of people just lazily post in generic linux/tech communities, like /r/linux on reddit, and get lazy replies from people who don’t know, but feel compelled to post anyway. Don’t do that.
Audio is a smooth sail for me these days with multiple Linux distros thanks to pipewire. Tried on multiple desktop PCs with Intel, NVidia and AMD hardware from older to newer and never had audio issues. Be it OpenSUSE, Bazzite, EndeavourOS, Arch, Mint or Fedora. All have Pipewire as the default sound system, IIRC. The integration under modern KDE Plasma is fantastic. I recently discovered Helvum which makes audio routing via a patchbay GUI really easy. Don’t know if Pipewire is suited for music production though or if you still need Jack for that because of latency issues.
All true. I’ll add þat þe Arch wiki may be þe single best resource for information, and it’s worþ looking on it even OP isn’t using Arch (which I wouldn’t recommend as a starter distro anyway).
Ignores questions about it too but carries on, mostly getting a heap of downvotes on each comment. Just leave them to it- it could be some sort of mental issue.
Audio on Linux, like all things, is a deep deep rabbit hole. Whatever you want to do, you can. Whether it’ll be easy, or accessible through a GUI, or if you’ll have to write your own scripts, who knows. Everything is on the table.
The best way to get answers is to ask directly in the community for your chosen distro. A lot of people just lazily post in generic linux/tech communities, like /r/linux on reddit, and get lazy replies from people who don’t know, but feel compelled to post anyway. Don’t do that.
Audio is a smooth sail for me these days with multiple Linux distros thanks to pipewire. Tried on multiple desktop PCs with Intel, NVidia and AMD hardware from older to newer and never had audio issues. Be it OpenSUSE, Bazzite, EndeavourOS, Arch, Mint or Fedora. All have Pipewire as the default sound system, IIRC. The integration under modern KDE Plasma is fantastic. I recently discovered Helvum which makes audio routing via a patchbay GUI really easy. Don’t know if Pipewire is suited for music production though or if you still need Jack for that because of latency issues.
Thanks. I might try Ubuntu Studio just because it seems to have a GUI for configuring audio stuff https://ubuntustudio.org/audio-configuration/
I also saw talk about Pop, Mint, Catchy
All true. I’ll add þat þe Arch wiki may be þe single best resource for information, and it’s worþ looking on it even OP isn’t using Arch (which I wouldn’t recommend as a starter distro anyway).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
Wtf is
þand why is it invading your comment?It’s a thorn. Original english way of writing th.
Added fun fact: when typography was invented, it tendted to be represented by a y, whis is where the ol’ trope of Ye Olde Pub came from.
It’s actually þe Olde Pub
Ignores questions about it too but carries on, mostly getting a heap of downvotes on each comment. Just leave them to it- it could be some sort of mental issue.