A while back I started learning audio production, this was done on an old MacBook Pro (Intel Generation) with Ableton Lite. But when I found out about Bitwig, I realized I could do this on Linux. First time I was using PopOS, but experienced frequent xruns, even when the CPU wasn’t fully utilized. This led me to try a number of things, like setting the appropriate pipewire quantum settings and bitrate, also tried JACK and I thought my laptop was broken, but I tried Project Bluefin (an OS based on Universal Blue, a bootc image), and the problem went away, I still got audio pops and stutters when the CPU was taxed, but that is from when say trying to compile something while the music is playing. I have read that fedora is better than Ubuntu for realtime audio, so it is worth considering if you would like to do the same, but a lot of audio software on linux targets Ubuntu. I haven’t tried using Arch for it, but there are a lot of packages on the AUR (Arch User Repository) including a Bitwig package.
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