On 10/13/18 1:56 AM, Mask The Truth God wrote:
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On Saturday, October 13, 2018 4:48 AM, Mask The Truth God
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To anyone with an exceptional understanding of the debian OS (mainly directed
to Developers)
I am quite upset with the performance I have been getting from my debian system
since I have downloaded it. I will try to explain in as much detail as I can so
if it is possible someone might be able to change my mind and make me keep
debian as my daily driver then it might happen.
I just got done doing a fresh install of debian 9.5 stable, I enjoyed it at
first and then followed instructions from long time debian users and installed
all of the necessary drivers and firmware ect.... after i got everything
installed it seemed to be working great untill I started up firefox. This was
one of the first major performance problems that came about. Every time i would
watch a youtube video or view a twitch stream it would work for a second but
then the video would glitch and skip around along with audio glitching from
seconds ago repeating itself. (more with the live streams on twitch than the
youtube videos but they still are glitchy too but not as much as the twtich)
Also in firefox every time i scroll firefox would be laggy and choppy. I then
installed Opera to check and see if it was possibly caused by a corrupted
firefox and opera behaved the exact same. The same choppy scrolling also
happened when I installed discord to the system when i would scroll in the
discord chats. To rule out the obvious here I have a well tested eithernet
cable that works great with all my other systems so that is not the isssue.
The second biggest problem with debian is the audio control. I have written
about this before about a week ago when i was still trying to have hope and
configure everything and since ive installed AMD firmware and the drivers it
has gone down a lot but it still will make the awful hissing noise i complained
about before (i will put this description at the bottom of this email for
anyone who did not see my email a week ago about that problem)
as I work a lot with music production and video streaming These problems are
major for me and are making me think of just giving up and switching to Manjaro.
I still think Debian is a solid OS but from what I am witnessing it seems If i
am very concerned with perfect audio for music recording and streaming videos
with no glitching then maybe debian is not meant for what I need and i should
switch to something more modern and aimed at being used as an every day system
like Manjaro?
Here is the USB audio problem I am having:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/terrible-audio-problems-4175640263/
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!!!!!!!!! update forgot to add:
My hardware is:
Gigabyte 970a-ud3p
500 GB 72000 RPM drive
Amd r9 380 graphics card
8 gb RAM
amd fx 63000 processor
I have been building my own desktop/ workstation computers for 20+
years. The ones with Intel motherboards have had the fewest hardware
and software failures under Windows, Linux, and BSD. (Unfortunately,
Intel does not make desktop boards any more, so my future builds will
need to use Intel server boards.)
For laptops, I've had good luck with Dell; both for software
compatibility and for hardware documentation/ service manuals.
Building a Linux multimedia workstation is an uncertain proposition. If
you start with Debian stable and add just a few packages, it should
work. I watch YouTube videos daily on Debian Stable, Xfce, and Firefox
Quantum; all is well. But, whenever I've tried to build a multimedia
workstation with many packages on Debian Stable using official Debian
Stable packages, I have found both that the multimedia tools are dated,
lacking features, and buggy and that the system becomes unstable.
"Planet CCRMA at home" appears to offer more recent packages and more
extensive integration testing:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
I seem to recall that the last time I tried it on a ~2007 Dell laptop,
the hardware was inadequate.
All of the above assumes you are willing to invest countless hours
building and maintaining a Linux multimedia workstation.
But, to be blunt, if you would rather spend your time *using* a
multimedia workstation, the obvious solution is to buy Windows (or a
Mac) and the commercial packages for whatever niches you want to work in.
David
