Installed Ubuntu 20.04 Workstation on a Mac Mini 2012 (Otherwise OS X have no support for native DSD with my SMSL M500)
Roon extension was still running on my raspberry PI 3B+ because DENON/MARANTZ volume does not work resuming form sleep and my Raspberry stay always on.
The system is really stable and I am able to wake it from sleep without issues
Been running Roon Core and Roon Bridge on Mac mini for the last year or so. Switched 2 minis actually due to upgrade from i3 to i7. As long as you use Ethernet over the WiFi, you should be fine. As Iāve seen other Mac users have pretty much the same set up, I would say that it might be your machine issue, though any standalone server always will be better than other multiple tasks-machine machined computer.
From my perspective, in order to get the best result, you should stay away from WiFi and NAS as a main storage. Even though absolute majority here uses it, itās still gives you slower speeds and other library issues.
Running Roon Core Server on Ubuntu 20.04. Run the bridge on a separate Ubuntu 20.04 laptop. Bulletproof. The BEST. Solid as a rock. If you have the hardware, no need to even consider Windows. bleh.
Hi Fernando and others Linux experts, I am trying Roon on Ubuntu 22.04 like dual boot, everything is working, but when I added folder with music in Roon(internal disks, Windows, format ntfs) Ubuntu freezes and I need use hard button for restart.
Disk with Ubuntu instalation ext4 works, music folder is added to Roon.
Thanks for help!
I am using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS as Roon Server OS with a Synology NAS and its rock solid but I am using smb as mount file system with the NAS. I am not using dual boot - this is an exclusively Linux machine
Why dualboot when you can run the Roon server as a virtual machine inside Windows. Not that i know much about Windows, but it should be straight forward. You can then share you music disk/dir either as an internal drive or as a smb drive from Windwos to the virtual Debian.
I run my roon server on e virtual Debian Bookworm on my proxmox server. It has been running without faults for 3 years.I used this link as to how to install:
Thanks to all! I know more nowš
I tried Roon on Linux for quality of sound! It is more analog likeā¦ I can mount system disk ext4 and NAS Synology. It is enough, with TIDAL active I stream to psaudio AirLens and Chord DAC, nice result!!!
There is a trend in audio circles that regard all information that represents audio in the digital domain as audio or sound.
Eg. switches that give better sound, operatingsystems that sound more analogue, this is food for the āaudiotweak industryā (read snakeoil pushers).
For whom it may concearn, feel free to believe that packets, frames and files are audio.
On topic again, i believe that linux as a server OS is exceptionaly stable and versitile in use.
As a Roon server it just works, although i hope that Roon will be more robust when using dual stack IP (IPv4 and IPv6).
And that is even before you take them through the process of building all of the required packages from source so that they can run Roon.
After they (and you) have spent a week or more putting all of that effort in, then they will, of course, become complete evangelists and swear by your original contention - even though it was a joke! After all, if you put that much resource into making something then it must be better mustnāt it?
