You are right about the spices. Martin doesn’t like it just for that reason, but then again, to each their own taste-buds, right?

room temperature is best to get all of the rich tastes..

Now I do get breakage from time to time on my Windows PC at the office, sometimes catastrophic, but I do agree, there ought to be a better way to protect the Linux from this plight.

One thing I think could be considered is either an update safety level like in Linux Mint could be adopted – you set your level of update – updates are rated in terms of risk to stability and you choose your risk level. Core packages crucial to the operation of the distro are pinned so that they aren’t updated unless its from the KX repo – I think he does this to some degree already. But the big killer for me is the kernel updates – they always bust the wifi on my laptop – that’s a big annoyance for me (broadcom). Perhaps KX should not update the kernel unless its a bad security breach. Slackware is quite pragmatic in its kernel updates, they don’t happen unless its a total showstopper.

Right now falktx is actually working on getting the KX experience ported over to non KDE environments. I think this when done is going to be a huge gift to the community that other distros can pickup and this will broaden the KX experience to all the GNOME users which should be an interesting development. Someone needs to hire this guy!! Canonical – get on it!.

My only beef, and this is with all Linix distros and not exclusive to KX, is that updates can ruin configurations and getting things all back to full operation after upgrades can be daunting and even cause for reinstallation, once I make that call that I’ve wasted enough time trying. There is also an issue with blocked packages, where I’m offered an update but it won’t install for “legal” reasons, etc. Again, these are Linux and not KX issues, which I have with Ubuntu, Suse, etc. too. Often it’s just easier and more efficient to download the latest installation DVD iso, and do the install from scratch. I’ve even gone to maintaining a separate data partition to make this easier when necessary.

Bottom line, for me, KSstudio is the best audio-supporting Linux OS I’ve found in about 5 years of Linux use. Kudos to Ubuntu Studio for effort, but Falk has done great things with KX and US should pay attention and adopt some of Falk’s better concepts where it makes sense. I see a lot of “mine is bettering” in the various Linux camps, so I hope Ubuntu can swallow some pride and work together for a better user experience, rather than succumbing to the popular stubborn pride driven oneupmanship that a lot of camps exhibit when something better comes along. Uforums moderators did let me post a comparison of the two, in which I tried to be objective. To me, the real test is whether a distro’s devs actually read and consider what us mortals post there. I would qualify myself as only a power user at best, definitely not a programmer, and therefore mortal. But if Linux is to ever beat Big Brothers Inc in user satisfaction, it has to be manageable by us mortals or it will remain “just another elitist OS”. This is what is so cool about Android (I love Android) and even iPod/Pad/Phone (oops, did I just praise Apple?), that mortals can use such software without any real technical ability because it just plain works (for the most part). The elegant simplicity is the key.

Falk’s work with KXstudio is helping to make Linux, and especially Linux audio, mortal friendly! Kudos Falk! It’s not yet click-n-go, but it’s a huge improvement and very much a move in the right direction for Linux in general.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

I’m glad you like it!