Re: [LAU] Noo 'pooter :)

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:19:04 -0300
Federico Galland <federicogalland@email-addr-hidden> 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@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user