Audacity, get_iplayer & Windows 10

[michael norman]

On 18/11/15 18:44, roadcone wrote:
> On 17/11/15 18:21, CJB wrote:
>> Audacity is the music editing app. that I am most familiar with. I
>> like it. It works.
>>
>> I also use it to process downloads from get_iplayer.
>>
>> However with Microsoft's increasingly aggressive stance in forcing
>> upgrades to Windows 10 I am concerned. I have heard that Audacity does
>> not work with Win 10.
>>
>> Is this correct? What are possible work-arounds? Is there an
>> alternative Audacity-like app.?
>>
>> And does get_iplayer work with Win 10?
>>
>> Thanks - Chris B.
>  >
> I use get_iplayer and Audacity on Windows 10 64 bit with no problems.
>
> I endorse what Colin Law said, though, change to Linux. My main computer
> is an eight year old laptop running Linux Mint 17.2 and it runs like a
> train. I use the terminal version of get_iplayer installed from the
> repositories and also Audacity with not a single problem.
>
> Install unetbootin on your Windows machine and use that to download and
> install a version of Linux on to a USB stick as a boot disk. You can
> then boot into Linux from the memory stick without affecting the Windows
> install and that will allow you try it out with no risk.
>
> I would recommend Mint as it presents things in a way that a Windows
> user would find somewhat familiar. It is built on Ubuntu stock so runs
> all (?) Ubuntu applications, dunno, but all that I have tried to install.
>
> Clive
>
>
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A simple +1 in the sense that Linux Mint is the distro I would recommend 
a Windows user to try.  Certainly GIP and audacity work as they should.

M