• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    For audio specifically you might find FreeBSD easier to set up. As a DAW, not as a desktop in general.

    ALSA+PulseAudio\Pipewire+JACK are kinda messy compared to newpcm+JACK .

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      16 days ago

      Well, the PC isn’t used only as a DAW, so I might still need Linux as opposed to FreeBSD. I’ve been running some form of Linux for a long time, now. I’ve never tried FreeBSD. Don’t even know what it is, actually.

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        16 days ago

        Well, the PC isn’t used only as a DAW, so I might still need Linux as opposed to FreeBSD. I’ve been running some form of Linux for a long time, now.

        If you’re of the “advanced user” kind, you might find it easier to use than Linux - cleaner, much better documentation, ports collection, ZFS without pain or any combination of GEOM classes with UFS (which has snapshots here btw). It’s a different OS, but a very pleasant one. Same X (or Wayland), same applications, etc.

        One can also use Linux emulation with CentOS 7 or Rocky Linux 9 environment for Linux binaries.

        Don’t even know what it is, actually.

        It’s a descendant of BSD, and things like Ultrix and SunOS 4 were BSD, so one can say it’s the most commonly used thing of what feels like Unix today (after Linux).

        OK, I think this reads like sales text.