Currently, Ubuntu is available in 8 flavors. Personally, I think they all make sense, but there is one that yo I find less necessary: Ubuntu Studio. It is a version of Canonical's system that basically has multimedia editing packages installed by default, which can come in handy for content creators but can also be considered "bloatware" if there is something you don't use. The doubts about whether this flavor should remain official or not are not new and, from what was published in this post, they rethink their future.
Almost just a year ago they gave us the news: after a time of reflection and seeing that the user community supported them, Ubuntu Studio would remain the official flavor of the Canonical family. What was published yesterday is a little more worrying: they no longer only need to know the opinion of the users; now they mention development and maintenance related issues. They also ask us to be more participatory, or for more advanced users to be, answering questions from the less expert in the different channels that they make available to us (such as IRC chats).
Déjà vu: Ubuntu Studio could disappear
This has to do with something that the community (this means you) should be currently doing, but is not doing it. This is an area that developers cannot do, otherwise they would be working on Ubuntu Studio full time. Currently, there are NO paid Ubuntu Studio staff. Therefore, to avoid exhausting the development team, they will not take care of support requests, but will be happy to provide guidance to those who do.
Ubuntu Studio explains that they will disappear if the latter does not happen, something understandable: there is no one to charge, at least directly, for the work they are doing to keep the distribution afloat. Yes waste time answering technical questions from usersThey cannot pay all the necessary attention to development, they will not improve, the system will be worse and they will end up disappearing.
Do you think Ubuntu Studio should continue to exist? Do you think it is a dispensable flavor because we can install its software manually? If you are one of those who thinks it should exist and you have knowledge, help them. They need you.
I don't know if it should disappear or not, I used Ubuntu studio about 5 years ago and I liked the part to create and reproduce ... then I changed the machine and put it aside using Windows.
Time passed and for reasons that are not relevant I returned to Linux, and remembering that good experience I installed it again, but I noticed it abandoned, as it had not evolved at that time, the same packages,
I noticed it unattended, and using xfce (I think it was, I'm not sure, correct me if not) as a desktop interface I was not convinced at all.
One thing is real, if the Ubuntu studio project does not have funding it is destined to die, there comes a point where no matter how much the community collaborates, the people who do it also have to live and pay their bills and that is not done from the air.
Rather than asking the community for help (which is good), I think they should rethink their scheme and their way of subsisting in the future
I find this comment so pathetically subjective “Personally, I think they all make sense, but there is one that I find less necessary: Ubuntu Studio. »Drawn by an author who believes that he writes for himself and his peers. I think Pablinux should realize that he does not write for himself, that there are other people with different needs than his.
Now regarding Ubuntu Studio I will say that it is a flavor that I have used for six years and I use it because, indeed, I edit videos, images and sound. Ubuntu Studio is stable, comfortable and efficient for me, and I would be very sorry if Canonical made the poor decision to cancel the project.
Ubuntu Studio was one of the first versions of Linux that I tried when I switched from mac to Linux. I never supported XFCE, so I tried other distros. I work mainly photo and video, with some sound editing. After a few years now and trying from Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Manjaro in various flavors, Opensuse and some more, in the end I am left with just Ubuntu. 19.10 today. I have a dual boot with Ubuntu Studio 18.04, exclusively for use with Davinci Resolve Studio since it uses a kernel compatible with AMD drivers. Resolve does not work on 19.10. For the rest I always use Ubuntu Gnome 19.10. The people who are supposed to use Ubuntu Studio have certain aesthetic and usability demands that XFCE does not give anywhere near. I think that if Ubuntu Studio were "good looking" it would have many more users