Comment by mmjaa | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mmjaa | Hacker News Reader

I run both Ubuntu and MacOS systems in my studio, each functioning as DAW's in various capacities, and I find myself feeling very relieved, more and more, whenever I sit in front of the Ubuntu Studio DAW to work .. everything just works, and with every update the system is more and more of a joy to work with.

I just suffered through an automatic update on MacOS to Catalina - this has been the most painful, idiotic thing to happen in my studio in a long time, and I now feel about Apple the way I did about Microsoft last century, when I abandoned them .. just utterly disappointed, and more the point I feel exploited just so that Apple can update its OS and force us to move onto their next big thing.

More and more, I'll replace the Mac with an Ubuntu Studio-oriented DAW, and then I'll phase out using Macs entirely. Linux is catching up in a big way, especially for use as Audio/Media workstation. Its not 100%, but its certainly better than having arbitrary decisions forced on me by the OS masters in Cuppertino.

(And yes, I've disabled auto-update. Shouldn't have been on in the first place, on this production system...)

> and more the point I feel exploited just so that Apple can update its OS and force us to move onto their next big thing.

> its certainly better than having arbitrary decisions forced on me by the OS masters in Cuppertino.

This is a rather curious stance, as "force" is a hyperbolic word indeed to describe a default setting that you can permanently turn off in literally four clicks (System Preferences > Software Update > Uncheck the box for automatic updates, and accept the warning)

I'm confused, there was an automatic update that took you from Mojave to Catalina without your permission?

(Not sure why you got downvoted btw)

Yes - The update was downloaded automatically, when the machine was shut down for the night, it installed the update automatically on bootup. This caused days of frustration and lost productivity.

This can't happen unless you approve it. You can sit on old versions of MacOS for years.

If you don't mind me asking, which software have you been using, especially regarding audio? I'm thinking about making the move to Linux but the lack of audio and music pro software always make me stay on macOS.

I'm wondering what interfaces are you using. Are you using DSPs?

For Audio? Presonus, as it is first-rate under Linux - it just plain works (at least in Ubuntu Studio). Also have other ADDA's too, such as RME .. same result: just works under Linux. Best latency stats of any DAW setup.

Thanks! That's great to hear. When I was working with audio, I had a good experience with the E-Mu devices, but everything else what iffy, e.g. TC Electronic or Focusrite that I otherwise love.

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