On 03/02/2018 10:05 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
Which one is recommendable for the beginner: texlive or miktech? It
should contain texlive-extra and/or texlive-publishers
Wolfgang
Contrary to Ehud's opinion, I'd go with MiKTeX on Windows (probably
TeXLive on Linux). For background, I was on Windows for a (painfully)
long time, and I've been using almost exclusively Linux for about a
decade. I strongly prefer the MiKTeX package manager to the
corresponding program in TeXLive when it comes to installing individual
packages (and thus just what you need).
At one time I tried out a Linux port of MiKTeX. I'm not sure if it still
exists or not, and I don't recall why I decided to go with TeXLive on
Linux. Bottom line, though: if I had to use Windows most of the time but
occasionally switch to Linux, I think I would use MiKTeX. If it were the
other way around (only occasional Windows use), I would probably use
TeXLive. If I were exclusively on Windows, I would use MiKTeX.
Paul
