Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

[David Wright]

On Fri 30 Dec 2016 at 21:04:23 (+0000), Wols Lists wrote:
> On 30/12/16 04:49, David Wright wrote:
> >>> 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?
> > 
> That the OP "just feels comfortable", maybe?

I'm none the wiser, sorry. I couldn't understand why you favoured rpm
over deb, you haven't said why you prefer KDE to Gnome, you seem
to imply that Debian doesn't run KDE, and you seem to be recommending
an OS that you've found difficult to install LP on.

> I started computers using Pr1mos, went to Sintran, learnt DOS and
> Windows 3.1, and on and on. And I don't know why, but I personally just
> do NOT get on with Debian and Gnome.
> 
> My wife's "computer" (a VirtualBox instance, actually) is still stuck on
> WinXP - not because I can't upgrade the virtual box, but because I can't
> upgrade my wife :-) Windows has just changed too radically for her.
> 
> Thing is, a lot of people do not like change. The OP may find he gets on
> great with plain Ubuntu. Or he may not. Linux gives people *choice* and
> I would hate to see someone walk away from linux because they didn't
> like something that was easy to change, if only they'd known they could.
> That's the point of comparing Ubuntu with SUSE - they are opposite ends
> of the spectrum - if you don't like one, you may well like the other.
> And there's plenty (too much? :-) choice inbetween, too.

I don't know whether the OP likes change or not, except that they are
certainly making a big change going from <unknown OS> to linux.
It just seemed to me that your posts were expressing negative prejudices
about OSes you don't get on with. I guess I couldn't see that perhaps
you were just trying to indicate the spectrum that is available in
OSes, DEs, WMs, etc.

Cheers,
David.