[ubuntu-studio-users] A moment of peace and clarity.

[Gord L Williams]

Dear list,

I have had reaction to some comments I have made,  and I have to say 
everyone has acted in a very gentile manner.   Its good when we have 
manners and can express our thought.   Perhaps thats why we are hear 
rather than opening the box and dancing with the latest iPhone or 
Windows device.

My comments where about not being able to move freely (FOSS) between 
desktops and choice your poison - yes including imperfect bloatware.  
Unity anyone?  Gnome?   -  I actually like Gnome 3 because it presents 
those I will call,  dancing people,  with a desktop that has a beat,  
for them.  "Its cool and I can dance to it."  to get American Bandstand 
about it.

I was in no way attempting to take a swipe at anyone.  I think most of 
you got that,  but apparently some people read things sideways. You can 
expect that, if you make statements.  Probably why I will never be in 
politics.

If it was a perfect world,  any distribution would be the same in 
intent,  regardless of desktop,  meaning menus and software would be the 
same.  In my crazy world I envision ubuntu - astronomy,  which of course 
you can say the prospects are looking up for.   Wait the big jokes come 
later....

I see this as an advantage over  dancing peoples devices and os's. Tell 
us what you are and we have something for you already. Perhaps its as 
easy as having interest groups modify based on available software,   
they choose semi pro stuff like Ardour which seems to be tin-cup ware 
now,   and truly FOSS. But that may not be the desire.

Ubuntustudio does a great job of being a studio.  No knocks at all.   I 
do not record at a studio professionally for a number of reasons.  The 
setups and the bookings take time,  and your a number is one reason.  I 
have recorded in a professional hardware based studio and I managed the 
talent for that, so my reasoning isn't superfluous.  Sitting on the 
stool talking into a $3000 microphone is a kick,  but doesn't bring it 
home economically.   Studio time like that costs and has to be rolled 
into the price.

I have alway been about bringing that cost down,  and very Ubuntu about 
what I do.  "If a traveler wanders into a village,  the village will see 
to his needs without a thought as to what they need."   I believe Nelson 
Mandella close enough.

My point is if you can encourage more people to explore their talent as 
a photographer,  graphic artist, and media producer,  the world will be 
better.  If the distribution fits more people,  if they can make sense 
of it without a huge learning curve and yes,  if they can dance around 
the open box,  so to speak,  as humans tend to do then maybe we have 
something.   We have something,  not just the geeks that watch their 
machine efficiently eat up compute cycles for bragging rights.  Thats 
already there,  enjoy your command line.

Often there is great resistance to the paradigm shifting,  and there are 
reasons and excuses not to move forward on it.   It is a good deal of 
work for everyone involved in a distribution to make a change,  any 
change,  even a small one.  A radical change in thinking even more so,  
it can be disruptive or worse.   So,  I do not propose that and I never 
will.   Ubuntustudio is a great distribution and has been a great 
distribution and probably will continue to be so for years to come.

That as they say is the bottom line,  thank you Ubuntustudio. Period.