On Thu 29 Dec 2016 at 22:03:32 (+0000), Wols Lists wrote: > On 29/12/16 03:51, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > > My concern with "easy" distros - and maybe I'm wrong here - is that if > > something goes wrong (and it invariably will) you will need the ability > > to fix it, which will require digging into the file system, editing > > configuration files, etc. > > > > I don't know what the happy medium is, though! > > Start with something easy? Ubuntu or Kubuntu sounds a good choice BUT. I > just cannot get on with Debian-based distros or Gnome.
Could you explain that a bit? I can't see why the OP would take note of I like A but not B without any explanation of what you base you views on. > So openSUSE is > also a good distro to try, seeing as it's rpm and KDE. I don't understand. 36 hours ago you wrote "I've had a fair bit of trouble with SuSE and lilypond" and "I could not get the then latest lilypond to install on the then latest SuSE". (Also I notice that another post here contained "OpenSuse Leap 42.1 [...] did have oddities in relation to lilypond.") What are the advantages to LilyPond of rpm over deb, for example? Or KDE on openSUSE as opposed to KDE on a Debian-based distribution? > The difficulty, of course, is that telling a noob to try several distros > could be off-putting, even if it is good advice. Yes. Fortunately the OP seems happy to "take the plunge", which is encouraging. We haven't yet heard back on whether a DE is essential or not. I do wonder about some other posts in this thread that start talking about LilyDev, checking out guile-v2-work, and compiling LP. Perhaps the people writing such posts have had some off-list communication from the OP. OTOH I agree that the Arch wikis are excellent and clearly written; very useful whatever distribution one runs. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
