Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

[David Wright]

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.