For the record, the Zorin Linux experiment didn’t quite work out. Not because of the software exactly, but because of the laptop. This old Acer Inspire I’m using has a dual core 1.5GHz CPU. The documentation for Mixxx says you need at least a 2GHz CPU. I was hoping they were overstating the requirements like many other software distributors do, but NOPE. I was getting frequent blips while both decks were playing, or when one deck was playing and the other was analyzing. You can’t have blips. I ran the monitor utility and both CPU’s were pegged at 100%. Not good! So this laptop is not gonna work with Mixxx.
As it so happens, I was refurbing another laptop. This one had Windows 10 Pro on it, but it did have a dual core 2.3GHz i3 processor. I loaded Mixxx on it and ran the same test with copies of the same tracks, and the CPU NEVER ran more than 24%, and I never heard any blips. Unfortunately, it’s WINDOWS 10, which I was trying to do without. I already have DJ computers running Microsoft or Apple operating systems, but was trying to find a viable alternative. The Linux/Mixxx setup may be a winner; just not on my Acer laptop.
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