On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:19:04 -0300 Federico Galland <federicogalland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As this will be a clean install, I'm wondering what people might suggest as > > for best distro to make full use of it - all my other machines have had a > > progression of debian upgrades so are probably full of crud. > > I've used arch linux on my laptop for 5 years, and while I loved it as a general purpose OS, the AUR was just more problematic with audio software than building on my own. > In the end, I dumped it in favor of debian (a 6 years old install, still on its feet) because of the convenience of the kxstudio repos. I just feared having to update my system, and didn't really like to fill my bandwidth with large updates. > > If I were you I'd stick with debian. > > Of course there is the downside of packages being compiled without optimizations, and you do miss the PKGBUILD system, which is the best I've seen on linux land. > > Cheers. Thanks everyone for you comments. I'm inclined to give Arch a try, if it doesn't work I'll fall back to debian. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
