Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 6
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Pros:
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Software for every purpose
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Cons:
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but some’s a bit buggy or poorly selected
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ArtistX is based on Ubuntu, with a low-latency kernel, the Gnome desktop, and many multimedia applications.
This is a huge collection of software, needing 20GB of hard drive to install. All the usual multimedia tools are present, but there’s also a lot of duplication: do we really need Calligra and Gnome Office, and wouldn’t LibreOffice have been better? Some of the software is quite unexpected, like a yacht sail designer! A list of the main programs can be found at http://artistx.org/blog/software.
Of the programs I tested, some left warnings in the CLI; VLC was the version that gives trouble with some video chips, while Totem, Gnome-mplayer, and Dragon were unusably slow; and Epiphany crashed with an illegal instruction, leaving Konqueror as the only browser. I was unable to test the installer, since my guest partition is too small.
The bugs didn’t inspire confidence, and its sheer size makes this a little difficult to get to grips with — Ubuntu Studio is a much better option.
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