Greetings Everyone,

Hello, I'm a little bit frustrated with linux right now. I do have a centos 7 server with univention running on it for file sharing. However, I can't seem to get the right distro for making music. I've tried out Centos 7 as a workstation because of its stability, but installing anything like ardour or jack or Qjack always ends up with errors. I've also tried it in Fedora 31. I'm sure there's some tweaks there I'm missing, as I tried Rosegarden in Fedora, but could not get the midi keyboard to translate into Rosegarden, and then something crashed, following a thread forcing a re-install.

Fast Forward to, today. I've just finished a hardware upgrade:

Specs:

Ryzen 5 3600x
32GB DDR4
GTX 760 (2GB) - Proprietary drivers installed (440.40 (i think)).

sda = 120GB SSD
/boot
/boot/efi
/swap
/

sdb && sdc (raid 1) 2x 500GB SSD
/home
/everything else

I have an external USB midi-keyboard - P105 (Yamaha)
I have a external USB Sound controller (UR12)
I have independently powered JBL LSR305 Monitor Speakers

Does anyone have a step by step start to finish to tutorial on how to get Ardour or Rosegarden or even LMMS up and running on ANY distribution (except ubuntu)

Currently running Fedora 31 (Kernel > 5.3.16-300.fc31.x86_64)
and XFCE version 4.14 (as I can't stand Gnome's layout.

I've looked up fedora docs and I follow it through, google it, and follow threads, and I seem to be getting more errors.

I've cleaned the repo and rebuilt it, still getting same errors (trying to install ardour).

So I'm fresh out of ideas, and more than a little bit frustrated.

Hoping someone can point me to a super stable distro (fedora / centos / others) that makes music (midi playback and so on), just a little bit easier. I know alot of dependencies need to be installed, and it needs tweaking, but error after error, gets..uh frustrating.

Thanks for reading...

Look forward to your suggestions.

Best ...and Happy New Year

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So, CentOS is not really meant to be a desktop without adding third party repositories. It has no multimedia capability without doing that. Pretty much any of the mainstream distros can be used to create music: Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc. The "easiest" will be Ubuntu or Mint. I think Ubuntu even has a studio version but not sure if it is for making music - not sure what their use of the word "studio" means.

Fedora is extreme bleeding edge and has a short lifespan so I personally wouldn't recommend that but others may disagree.

I have asked for this to be moved to a more appropiate forum

okey dokey....just hoping for some answers

Some were given already: don't use CentOS for this unless you know 100% what you're doing.
Beyond that...
https://linuxmusicians.com/
https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/start
http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/

You may find that this is what you want:
https://ubuntustudio.org/

Firstly, I'd definitely recommend this: https://kx.studio/

So you install Ubuntu Studio (kernel patched for low latency -- important stuff ), slap KXStudio repos on it and it should work wonderfully.

Secondly: https://linuxmusicians.com/ This forum is a must if you want to dive deep into audio production on Linux.

hth

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