On 2017-07-24, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
>> My advice to new Linux folks is always to start with a 'mainstream'
>> distribution. I.e., start with Ubuntu.
> The distribution is not the question.
It is, as with Debian or Ubuntu, you would have had a working LyX out of the
box.
> The point is that users start LyX and get a cryptic error message
> instead of a PDF document. The vast majority of users don't care about
> what is going on in the background, they want programs to just work out
> of the box. I mean with LibreOffice under Linux one can just begin to
> write, with LyX one cannot.
Not under all Linuxes, but under your distribution.
> That is why I spent so much time to get everything to work on Windows
> by just clicking OK a few time in the installer. And my thought is that
> when it works on Windows, it must work on Linux too.
However, the work you did for Windows is done by the "packagers" from the
various distributions under Linux. Hence your mileage regarding LyX may vary
from distro to distro and you should report to the distro the startup
problems you had with LyX (or switch the distro).
Günter
