I have recently been spending most of my time on Debian and Fedora and have been running into issues with (particularly) Debian's lack of control over repositories. Especially in the area of audio production, things get a bit iffy, as users are forced to use third party repositories, if the user wants to install program packages. In a thread on the Linux Musicians group on Facebook, I was told that this isn't the case with Mageia, being one of the few Linux distributions that have full control over your repositories. That, plus the fact that Mageia 8 has reached release candidate (RC1), has piqued my interest in Mageia again. However, when searching on the net, there are very few references to Mageia and audio production, despite having a SIG for the area. Is it possible to get some (particularly) first hand information about audio production on Mageia? My needs are not huge, and I don't need something like Ubuntu Studio or Fedora Jam, but I do need the basics, such as amsynth, audacity, carla, catia, cadence, guitarix, qsynth, sonic-visualiser, tuxguitar, vkeybd, jack-audio-connection-kit, qjackctl, and preferably a way to get a low latency or real time kernel without having to compile and upgrade manually.
Any responses are appreciated.