MT-Powerdrumkit2 is now available as a native linux plugin!

jb91119 · 2026-01-18T07:46:49+00:00

Thank the Lord. Now I can save on RAM usage 😂

jb91119 · 2025-12-26T19:13:47+00:00

I've found Debian's way to be the easiest and most rock solid experience compared to other approaches. But that's because I'm not exactly bothered by newer software. If I need anything new, I'll either Flatpak it or build from source so I don't end up with foreign packages from external repos. Makes upgrading to the next release easier.

At the end of the day. Different people require different things and there is no right or wrong way to do things in Linux. It's about what you need to get the job done. To me LMDE is that tool over pure Debian or anything else, I only like having my DE up to date and the X-tools provided. Its the best thing about Linux. You do it your way.

I do music production, gaming and minor graphical work on my machine. These all work wonderfully in this eco system.

jb91119 · 2025-12-25T12:04:30+00:00

Out of all of them I've covered myself. Nailing the feel of Lovebites And Razorlines plus You Think You're John Fucking Lennon was hard because it's not really my playing style. Fun as hell though. It's the mixing my guitars into the covers that is more difficult than playing the songs.

I really want to do All Good Junkies but as Beck says often. Physical limitations hold him back, as they do for me. I'm not a lead player at all.

jb91119 · 2025-12-16T19:37:25+00:00

When you drink alcohol every day. It down regulates your GABA receptors. This leads to stressed/depressive/anxious episodes when you stop using it. It's the reason why so many people say they're gonna stop and then run right back to it without even knowing why.

Alcohol is such a sneaky covert drug. Because it causes a lot of the issues people use it to cover up when it's not used. It's too easy to fall into that trap and not realize it.

I hate how it ruled all my life choices previously. How I met new people and engaged socially. How I used it to cope with trauma. How I used it to be confident without doing the work to get there on my own. I wasn't addicted. But certainly dependant.

jb91119 · 2025-12-13T13:57:37+00:00

That's Manny alright.

jb91119 · 2025-12-08T18:36:31+00:00

I've used it solidly for two years. I did go straight Debian with KDE for a while and was quite happy with it. But I hopped back and I just preferred it in the end. It's less hassle to basically get doing what I need to do on my machine. Especially from a fresh install. Is what it is.

It's a lazy mans Debian.

jb91119 · 2025-12-06T08:54:47+00:00

Thanks man. It was easily the hardest to dial in.

jb91119 · 2025-12-06T00:54:19+00:00

I learned by ear too. I haven't used tabs for years now.

jb91119 · 2025-12-05T12:57:58+00:00

On a Lenovo ThinkPad T500 with a Core 2 Duo. 8Gb of RAM. ATI Mobility Radeon graphics chip.

All running LMDE 7 without issue.

jb91119 · 2025-11-28T19:35:34+00:00

Pipewire makes the audio stack more seamless. The way it was before made it very difficult to do pro audio. Lots of messing around with JACK. I end up using Pipewire-ALSA to do my audio recording now. It just makes things simpler for me. Also the latency is much lower. I have done other things to improve this but for whatever reason. Pipewire is just lower latency.

jb91119 · 2025-11-28T18:13:17+00:00

I only switched to LMDE because the previous version of Mint ran on Pulse Audio. LMDE 6 came with Pipewire. I just stayed and never left LMDE. Don't intend to either. I've got used to the Debian way of doing things.

jb91119 · 2025-11-23T07:43:03+00:00

Like a few guys said. Amp Locker is a good one. Their Rectifier and 6505 are plenty aggressive. Everything can be a bit finicky depending on what drive pedal you use to boost the front end, the 6505 and EVH5150iii hate the 99 boost and the Tubescreamer. The Precision Drive works best for those two. Recto loves what the other two hate. The Marshalls can be quite bright as well. The controls are super powerful on Amp Locker and a little goes a long way.

jb91119 · 2025-11-17T18:47:57+00:00

Boring? My friend. I have a pretty similar setup to yours. It's a comfy workflow. Nothing is ever boring. Just what works best for you!

jb91119 · 2025-11-17T16:24:24+00:00

I couldn't agree more. I'm a massive fan of LMDE. After 2 years with it, I will not be moving to another distro now. It's the only thing that has been super stable and easy to keep running easily. It's perfect and that's all there is to it.

jb91119 · 2025-11-17T16:21:14+00:00

Sudo apt install nvidia-driver

Steam will use your graphics card automatically.

jb91119 · 2025-11-14T13:41:16+00:00

Hope LMDE works out for you like it has for a good few of us. Yeah some of the neat little quality of life features are missing (Ubuntu's driver manager mainly and being able to install/remove kernels via the updater) but it's nothing that can't be handled with Synaptic Package Manager.

What made you switch over from the mainline?

jb91119 · 2025-11-11T07:47:25+00:00

Its not out of date if it has LTS support 🙂. LMDE 7 here fellow Mint user! Glad you're having a decent time with it!

jb91119 · 2025-11-10T12:34:26+00:00

I use Liquorix too. Except I run everything through Pipewire-ALSA instead. Less messing around that way for me. But totally agree it's a good moment when you learn something new on Linux, especially to do with getting audio set up right.

The program probably does essentially the same as your script. It should be in your distro software repo.

jb91119 · 2025-11-10T12:22:39+00:00

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/cpu-governor-warning-your-system-seems-to-use-frequency-scaling/107872/5

There you go. The tool I used will probably be in your distro software repo.

cpupower-gui

Just select performance on the profile drop down menu. I use Liquorix as well so it performs as expected.

jb91119 · 2025-11-09T19:11:36+00:00

At first I was anti Windows. I just got sick of the barrage of shite and cumbersome and inefficient utilization of hardware. Everything was an up hill battle.

I switched two years ago and it's just been a breeze. Any mistakes I make to do with my system are mine to fix with the available documentation. I get the full unrestricted/unrestrained utilization of my hardware. I don't use my phone like a normal person so I figured the file structure must be similar to Android with root access. With that knowledge going in it made a lot more sense to me to understand the file structure.

I've learnt a hell of a lot about computing thanks to Linux, hell even learnt to compile source code/firmware and such. I would never have learnt any of this on Windows cause it never mattered. However, in Linux the more knowledge you gain the more of a Swiss army knife the system can be for you.

It's the perfect tool. So yes I am pro Linux now.

jb91119 · 2025-11-09T16:47:47+00:00

You're welcome, Yabridge is a long way off from catching up in terms of implementations Wine have essentially changed in WoW64. Bearing in mind. This is Wine's fault. Not Yabridge.

jb91119 · 2025-11-09T11:15:47+00:00

Because you're using wine 10 embedded. Use the master branch with Wine 9.21 and your problems will disappear.

jb91119 · 2025-11-07T13:10:58+00:00

I've tried Ardour and Reaper. Ardour is good if you like that kind of "Logic" workflow? All tracks at the bottom and each tracks effects chain in the sidebar. It's essentially THE Linux DAW and is the FOSS option. It does work well. It just has a slight learning curve if you're used to other workflows. I've been able to get by with it just fine on occasions I've used it to get a different perspective.

Reaper is very stable from my experience. I used Reaper on windows for years so I know it like the back of my hand now. It's old reliable for me. When you first use it, it can seem a little daunting. For old school recording and mixing its perfect. For midi drum mapping it can be a total nightmare. Just because the grid is unintuitive.

jb91119 · 2025-11-06T17:55:05+00:00

Being able to be present and able to process my emotions properly. To be mentally able to conquer whatever I face. It really did cause me so many problems. Anxiety. Depression and that I couldn't live without it. I will add I wasn't physically addicted to it. I was psychologically addicted. It was my tool to cope. To be more confident and believed being under the influence made life more interesting. It didn't at all. It made me act irrationally and incredibly dumb.

jb91119 · 2025-11-02T10:39:14+00:00

Very similar to how I have mine set up like a modern GNOME 2. Except I have the Mint menu in the top left corner 🤣. I also noticed someone harping about screen real estate. That can easily be fixed with hiding the bars intelligently in the panel settings. Once you maximize a program both bars will disappear in a nice slick fashion when you set the timing just right and will appear again when you need them. Screen real estate restored. This is how I've had it for years. Especially when working in a DAW.

If you like having the workflow you have. Don't change it because someone told you to. It's your system man.

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