my 0.2 cents here: i like puredyne because i know it's going to work -- i use it mainly for puredata and supercollider.
there's not another plug-n-play distro with supercollider with almost all quarks/ugens - i decide to use puredyne to try supercollider, and got really happy everything is there. i don't have a mac and the quarks/ugens for windows are too complicated to install, and not all the quarks/ugens work yet on windows. i am slowly learning to interact supercollider with another apps for image control -- puredata and fluxus are my main focus here, since they both work great with 3D/OpenGL, but i always have used pd-extended for externals on the video side, just remembering pd-pidip here... since puredyne is made for easy setup (i run mine from usb, always work in a lot of different computers) and with installations on mind i suggest to keep pd-extended with more externals. a more complete set of tools will take more time to ajust, but also can make some people to try different possibilities on patches. trying others' people patches can expand ideas on how to work also -- a great teaching/learning tool. thx all devs that makes this distro possible!
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