[PD] Linux - which distribution to use?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Unfortuntaely, Pd on ubuntu isn't quite that easy to install yet.   
But we are close.

.hc

On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:34 AM, Thomas Jeppesen wrote:

> I think I know where you are comming from ;)
>
> Thanks for the good and quick feedback I've gotten through the day.  
> It has
> helped me a lot.
> I installed Ubuntu today and it worked like a charm. I follow the  
> advice to
> stick with it, at least for a few months :)
>
> Cheers all!
> Thomas
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roman Haefeli" <reduzierer at yahoo.de>
> To: "Frank Barknecht" <fbar at footils.org>
> Cc: <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Linux - which distribution to use?
>
>
>> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:06 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>> Hallo,
>>> Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:01 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>>>> Me, too. Debian rules. Other than that pure:dyne rules as well.
>>>>
>>>> i agree, though ubuntu is also a debian derivative, but  
>>>> sometimes much
>>>> easier to use than debian and from my experience comes with better
>>>> maintained repos. as a beginner, i'd still vote for ubuntu.
>>>
>>> Most of the packages in Ubuntu come directly from Debian. When I was
>>> running Ubuntu on my laptop, I found, that I wasn't using the stuff,
>>> that's not in Debian, at all, so I reverted this system from  
>>> Ubuntu to
>>> Debian again. OTOH packages from Ubuntu often flow back to  
>>> Debian. In
>>> the end, it's a matter of taste.
>>
>> i don't want to be an ass and please don't get me wrong, when i hook
>> into it again. i fully agree with you. i started doing linux with
>> debian, too. though in the end, all problems i had turned out to be
>> manageable (and based on my lack of knowledge), i wish i had started
>> with ubuntu first retrospectively, just because you have to make less
>> decisions in order to get a working box, that 'just works' in  
>> everyday
>> life. i dare say, that ubuntu is the most easy os to install at  
>> all, not
>> only the easiest linux.
>> when starting with linux, i had to realize that i hardly know  
>> anything
>> about computers. i didn't even know, what a window manager is  
>> (least of
>> all, that also windows uses a window manager, but the fact that  
>> windows
>> tries to hide essential stuff from the user, so that he/she stays
>> unaware about computers is anothe story) and that i was supposed to
>> choose and install one, if i want to have a graphical interface.  
>> quite
>> many steps were involved, until i had a running pd.
>> i believe, in ubuntu much lesser steps are needed until pd runs.  
>> for a
>> sligthly more advanced user, many steps seem to be obvious and are  
>> done
>> fast, but for an innocent, naked, virgin noob (sorry for the strange
>> wording), like i was two and a half years ago, each step can be a  
>> real
>> pain.
>> of course, at the end you don't have more or less possibilities in  
>> one
>> or the other.
>>
>> just my 4cents (now, i'm broke  :-)
>>
>> roman
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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