On 24/12/16 09:11, Knut Petersen wrote: > Am 24.12.2016 um 04:06 schrieb Craig Dabelstein: >> Hi Lilyponders, >> >> Just a quick question. I'm taking the plunge and moving to Linux. >> Which distro would you recommend for running Lilypond and Frescobaldi? > > OpenSuSE, I'd recommend to use the Tumbleweed variant. It's a good > distribution, and a nice feature for > developers is that it allows easy parallel installation of guile 1 and 2. > Unfortunately, as always, there are trade-offs. I'm a SuSE guy myself (back from SuSE 5.4 days iirc the version correctly!), but I've had a fair bit of trouble with SuSE and lilypond.
I need VirtualBox, which Tumbleweed explicitly does NOT support, and my systems now run gentoo - precisely because I could not get the then latest lilypond to install on the then latest SuSE :-( (Plus 42.2 doesn't seem to like my laptop that much :-( That said, I would not recommend gentoo to a linux noob - not unless they're a masochist or desperate for punishment. It's a great distro, and a great teaching distro, but you hardly have time to get started before you start hitting cliffs in the learning curve! Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
