Linux On A Mac!

Remember that iMac that I found at a yardsale for $30? Well, I decided to install Linux on it. Specifically, Ubuntu Studio.

Since I had this Mac in the office and was running it for photography and music work, I decided to check out the Ubuntu Studio that I’ve seen pop up a few times, and since MacOS Monterey doesn’t have audio driver support for my M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R it was a little useless for the studio. I was surprised how well it ran for video applications like Kdenlive.

I even tried some photo editing and DAM software to see if I could replace Capture One and Affinity Photo. RawTherapee and digiKam combined were the go to for RAW image editing and management. RawTherapee was nice, but a bit different in how it operates from both Capture One and Lightroom. I didn’t really dig into digiKam as much as I wanted to before I realized that the new learning curve of switching to a new RAW image editor after the years I’ve been using Capture One wouldn’t be too beneficial to the workflow that I’ve developed, so decided to keep doing photography work on Windows.

Finding out that Presonus now has a beta version of Studio One was excited. So I installed that alongside Reaper. I didn’t get the chance to really dig into either because of the time it took me to try to figure out how Linux audio drivers worked. So I decided to revert those back to Windows as well. I may come back to Linux for audio production in the future. But for now those will remain Windows tasks.