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Making an appeal again to musicians that use

. I've been fighting audio on NixOS for years now. Perhaps it's small community, but I know I'm not the only one. Can we come together and compare notes?

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Hey just a quick note: I am in the (slow) process of moving my audio setup to NixOS and the approach I'm using is to pin everything: set it up once, never change it. This fits with my usage pattern (pretty much only Jack, Ardour and Pure Data + my own code).

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I was doing something like that. But it requires that the box be dedicated to that purpose. It also means you practically lose access to improvements and new pkgs. I use quite a lot of other things. I think it would go better for everyone if we could collaborate on this.

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I'm proposing a channel on the discord server. I'd also like to see a health matrix of the various functions and utilities.

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Collab sounds good. I probably pick this up again in a month or so when I'm back home.

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Still, easy pinning is the main reason why I use NixOS: ability to mix old and new code. Many cases when I need to choose I need my daily driver to not change. Typically things break due to desktop stuff etc that has little to do with my music software.

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Whoa that doesn't parse :) I mean when I need to choose between stability and new features, stability is becoming more important.

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But sometimes the new thing isn't a feature but a fix or a pkg I need. Even the pin I was using never *quite* gave me what I needed. I even adopted a few legacy apps that weren't available.

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Another working constraint for me is that I no longer have a dedicated music space. I currently have to use a general purpose box. I hope that changes before too long, though.

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Back home. Let's sync. My setup: dedicated studio box currently running Debian + single user mode Nix, and some general purpose boxes running NixOS The studio box runs jackdmp version 1.9.11 compiled from source 2017/04/05 to work around an issue in the Debian version