This is done using BTRFS snapshots, which means that your root partition is BTRFS. I use XFS for my home partition.
Pipewire will probably handle anything nowadays as long as he installs the necessary translations such as pipewire-pulse, pipewire-jack, etc. Even software built exclusively for Jack will work perfectly in pipewire. It has matured a lot
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Alright. Time to write an updateā¦ I have installed Ubuntu Studio 24.04 with X11 on my Asus GR8, specs here: And oh boyNo problems whatsoever as far as color management is concerned. XNView MP, digiKam and darktable all work just as desired. Nvidia 750Ti (ā¦reported as 860M for some reason? Who knows whatās inside, but itās almost the same GPU, so whateverā¦) works out of the box apparently
Iāll be honest I was not expecting thatā¦ well, at least System Monitoring Centerā¦
this will be relevant here too.
For now, thank you everyone for tips, Iāll play around in Ubuntu Studio and see how it goes.
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If there was something like āUbuntu Photography Studioā or āUbuntu Design Suiteā Iād probably use that.
Personally I found Ubuntu Studio somewhat bloated with lots of guitar tuning / virtual drum machines / software sound synthesizers /music recording applications which really arenāt a requirement for my needs
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Yeaaah, I noticed that too, as if it installed all the available open-source audio software 
Although, if I happen to like music production, I might find these tools useful in the futureā¦ who knows.
Iām using siduction, which in the end is Debian Sid. So itās a Rolling release and therefore quite up to date. In the past I used different Ubuntu based distros as well as some Arch based one. I always preferred the Debian based ones. I donāt like flatpaks and I hate snaps. that was the reason to leave Ubuntu based systems and switched to Debian. Iām on siduction now for nearly four years and I still feel at home. I use timeshift if something goes wrong with an update. But with the new solver in apt (which i use since some time) it is very unlikely.
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I essentially have the same question as OP, but with the qualification that Iām clueless about Linux. Itās all part of a gradual process of simplifying which includes shedding subscriptions and payments for things I donāt want or need. Lifelong Windows user but not a superuser. Itās good because the wife is a Mac and it keeps her away from my stuff. I quit the PC games a few years ago, and find I can do virtually everything else I like in the Linux environment. My two obstacles are Epson Print Layout for printing and Palette Master Ultimate for a hardware calibrated monitor. The workarounds are less than ideal. I can probably get over that. My initial intent was the latest version of Ubuntu, but I could not get it to install. Maybe it was my NVMEx3 SSD setup? Or dual non-identical monitors (both are 4K60Hz). I could not find a solution. So I went with Fedora 41 KDE Plasma which has worked fine, except for color management which is what Iām currently stuck on. So I guess Iām asking should I try something else, like Mint or might Fedora Workstation be better? Iām okay learning as I go, but I would rather know sooner if Iām going to hit a dead end. I donāt need the cutting edge. Iām currently dual booting with Windows 10 on a separate SSD and a third SSD for onboard storage while most of my files are stored externally. I use a RTX 3090 for GPU. Sorry for the long sad story and grateful for any feedback.
Should be fine. Plasma is defaulting to wayland, but you should install the necessary bits to use X11. You can use DisplayCal for monitor calibration, its a nice package.
Not sure about Epson Print Layout, but maybe it runs in wine? What sort of print layouts are you doing?
Epson Print Layout is slick for custom templates, such as printing multiple images of different sizes or aspect ratios on the same page. Itās the only thing it really does whereas most photo software is for editing with printing as an afterthought, since most users donāt print. Iām not that discerning; it just works well at the one thing it does.
I got the X11 bits installed with Nvidia drivers. Darktable needs colord to recognize the system display profile, which should install with DisplayCal or without, and thatās where I am hung up. DisplayCal installs but is missing something upon execute. Iāll try again another day. I have also read elsewhere in this forum that only the BenQ software takes advantage of the native gamut of the display. Practically itās probably not that important.
Or xiicd.
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Ubuntu Studio comes with KDE Plasma and X11 seems to be enabled by default. Color management worked nicely, although installing the display profile couldnāt be done through system settings (it didnāt recognize .icm files), but through DisplayCal.
I canāt help since DisplayCal is pre-installed and in my first attempt it worked well
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I have tried getting EPL working in linux (I use a debian based distro) to no avail. I can install + run, but it never connects to the printer itself. Even with the epson driver. If you ever get it up and running and printing well, please tell us what you did.
In terms of DisplayCal, you may need to install xiicd (as @paperdigits said). I know I needed to on my machine.
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Much appreciated. I was not aware that I had to additionally select the x11 workspace at login.
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Tell me, if I should take this to another thread more on the topic of DisplayCAL or display calibration. Iām in a bit over my head. I also apologize for contributing to Play Raw without color management. Itās still bad, but now I know they look like swill. I also became annoyed by my monitor, more on that another time.
DisplayCAL. It can be installed from Flathub, but that version is 3.8.9.3 from back in the day. The Fedora Linux version is 3.9.12 which requires Python component (I think) called āpipes,ā which has been deprecated and no longer available. The latest on Github is 3.9.15 which I believe is failing to build wxWidgets or something like that. Iām out of time for tonight.
Most of my contributions to playraw (and editing in general) were made on a 56% sRGB uncalibrated monitor and here I am 
I donāt think thatās something that you would need to apologize for.
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