Multimedia Workstation Setup

What i usually do to setup my Workstation:

🐁Starting with a clean Install of Xubuntu LTS (currently 24.04).  Why? - Cause thats the Desktop i'm used to. I regullary try alternatives but for now i'm sticking to XFCE. Reasons being:

• slim and fast (like really fast) and responsive
• thunar is not pretty but does everything best
• X11 not wayland

So after installing and update & upgrade i do the following things:

❇️ adding Drivers PPA and install the latest stable e.g. nvidia-drivers-580 - then reboot.

📽 To have Color accurate Output while Editing i use an old Blackmagic Design Decklink Card - the drivers (Desktopvideo) come as .deb files and need regular manual updating or else they may breake when i keep updating my Kernel.

🔊 My Soundcard is an ancient RME HDSP PCI Card. It needs  alsa-firmware alsa-utils alsa-firmware-loaders alsa-tools-gui

🥃 get the liquorix kernel: https://liquorix.net/

🚀 I like xfce but its missing a good launcher so i add Ulauncher PPA and install it.

🍷 It's handy to have a wine version thats NOT older than Friedrich Merz, so i add WinHQ PPA and install wine-staging.

👨‍🔧 Also install pipewire-jack while i am on it.

🌉 To bridge some Windows-VST's i use Yabridge.

🌈 To stop my fancy logitech keyboard from puking rainbows i use solaar and or logilight.

💐 All the love to falktx and his kxstudio PPA that is full off beautiful software made by beautiful people. So add it to your system.

🔧 I install ubuntustudio-installer to run ubuntustudio-audio-config to set pipewire quantum and Samplerate.

🧪 i then test the system with Milliseconds based on rtcqs and apply changes to the configuration as i am told there. E.g. i create a udev rule to allow latency meassuring for the audio group.

💾 Flathub missing from ubuntu - so we install it.

🗑Also remove the abomination that is snap-store (or remove snap alltogether).

sudo snap remove snap-store

✂️install Davinci resolve via Daniel Tufvesson's makeresolvedeb

♦️install ardour from the official binary.

💿Install some more nice Software..

Quirks:

• Darkmode is bumpy - has to be set via multiple configs.. but i forget to document the solutions..
• Nextcloud-Client: menus are unreadable when in dark mode
• HDSP firmware missing
  • ln -s /lib/firmware/hdsploader/multiface_firmware_rev11.bin /lib/firmware/multiface_firmware_rev11.bin
ln -s /lib/firmware/hdsploader/multiface_firmware.bin /lib/firmware/multiface_firmware.bin
• Steam Installation was bumpy