Hi Glen, Debian or Ubuntu are both fine choices. The one thing to be aware of is that modern Ubuntu turns on Wayland by default, and Wayland has issues that cause KiCad bugs / certain features to not work properly. In both cases, you will need to use a newer version of wxWidgets (3.2, the newer the patch release the better) than the stable version packages. For Ubuntu we provide these (including development packages) in our PPA. For Debian, you can get these from the unstable repos.
You can still use and develop KiCad on Wayland, but just be aware that some things don't work. -Jon On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 3:54 AM Levente <leventel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm a KiCad user and a software dev. I recommend Debian stable. You can > install all dependencies very easy. And you can use vscode for developement. > > > BR, > Lev > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 04:34 Glen English <glenenglish1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> HI KICAD devs >> >> What is your suggested dev platform for Kicad ? >> >> I have read : https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/build/linux/ >> >> I will put it in a VM for my Kicad work >> >> I have no preference, so please suggest what is likely to be the least >> difficult to get all dependencies satisfied and code built etc >> >> I am most at home with Debian Linux. But Ubuntu is fine also. For me >> Debian tends to get out of date and have mixes of stable, release, testing >> branches all in at once to make things work . >> >> I'm familiar with wxWidgets (from a Python aspect) and C++, and Linux, >> Codelite. I am not a strong GIT user, but I will learn to be.... >> >> regards >> >> glen english >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "KiCad Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/88e893d8-8b75-4cd9-96bc-c1631d9393f6n%40kicad.org >> <https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/88e893d8-8b75-4cd9-96bc-c1631d9393f6n%40kicad.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CACwWb3Bknb8Zv8BfsGK4-RTbzcEE1aY-s_gVUvqf0k4PzPibCg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CACwWb3Bknb8Zv8BfsGK4-RTbzcEE1aY-s_gVUvqf0k4PzPibCg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CA%2BqGbCAuGM%2BM2%3D0oYikRHi-Wtqdd%3DfMDpx_SnuqqxArsyfQK7g%40mail.gmail.com.
