On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 14:50 +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Debian is great but If you don't want to get deeper with it and your > purpose is movie making... then you should give up with debian and > switch to multimedia oriented distros, eg. AVLinux (is debian based > and far better than ubuntu).
I experienced Ubuntu Studio as more reliable than AVLinux. It certainly differs from release to release. Beyond that, AVLinux is (at least was) only available in 32-bit architecture. I've given up to do serious video work with Linux, but I'm experienced with audio productions on Linux. I'll encourage the OP to install and test several distros by a Linux multi-boot. All the pre-build media distros are easy to install, beside such distros I can recommend to test something as Arch Linux or Geentoo for multi-media. Sometimes it's easier to install and set up needed stuff, then to remove stuff that is a no-go for multi-media usage. Btw. AVLinux ships (at least shipped) with compiz by default, IMO not a smart choice for a multi-media distro. Don't get me wrong, just test several distros and then maintain just one or two distros. I experienced that for multi-media it's stupid to insist on "distro A is better than distro B". Be flexible and switch distros when ever it's needed. If you need a tool, chose the tool that fit to your workflow. If you want pledge allegiance to something, IMO don't do it for a distro, perhaps join a religion instead. I started with a RPM distro 10 years ago, but today I usually switch only between DEB distros and Arch, since it's to hard to keep on track with all packages managements for me. 2 Cents, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1355840123.3193.78.camel@q
