Naah, let them. People use Ubuntu Studio with success to run their audio software. What is more important: you disliking Canonical, or them being able to run the software they need?

Let him use whatever he wants. He will naturally distrohop some time in the future.

Sometimes you lose the battle to win the war. Not a big deal big deal in the grand scheme of things anyways.

What practices? I don’t care for Ubuntu because I don’t particularly like the distro. I’m an old Debian fart.

I think it’ll be fine. I use bitwig in kde neon, and it works fine. I can’t imagine Ubuntu studio is going to be that crazy different.

Whatever distro they go with, be sure that it has pipewire out of the box rather than pulseaudio. Pulse is garbage and unusable for anything requiring low latency. Also make sure they know that they need to become incredibly familiar with their DAWs built in tools, since native VST compatibility with Linux is not very common.

Then don’t use Ubuntu yourself. You can’t control what your friend does.

Most you can do is tell them why you don’t use it if they’re willing to listen, but if they don’t mind the reasons you give, let them be.

I don’t like Ubuntu for similar reasons, but if that what it takes for someone to dip their toes into the Linux pool, then so be it. It’s still Debian under the hood.

leave em alone. but be around when/if they decide theyre tired of ubuntu.

honestly ubuntu studio is an incredible way for first timers to try out a ton of software

i use arch btw