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Simplest version for PC that plays well with JRiver MC ?
kstuart:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on June 02, 2016, 04:27:36 pm ---Ubuntu or Mint might be a little easier than Debian Stable, IMO. Less steps involved. :P
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Less steps involved in the MC21 part of the install ?
kstuart:
What about "Linux Mint Debian Edition 2" that is based on Debian Jessie ? Perhaps that would be "best of both worlds"?
Awesome Donkey:
Well, if you look at these tutorials;
Debian: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=99333.0
Ubuntu: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=99334.0
There's a pre-step with Debian - you have to add yourself to sudo and audio groups, so technically one less step.
Linux Mint Debian Edition may or may not work fine, I tried it in the past and it did work fine however I haven't tried it again in a good while now. Ultimately it doesn't matter between Debian and Ubuntu/Mint, it just depends if you want one less step and your preference. Overall ease of use wise (and coming from Windows especially), Mint would probably be my choice. :P
kstuart:
After doing a little reading, for the purpose of just running MC21, I am leaning towards "Linux Lite" - their 3.0 Final (stable) has just been released. It uses xfce, as suggested above, and is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/release-announcements/linux-lite-3-0-final-released/
Any problems installing MC21 on that ?
mwillems:
--- Quote from: kstuart on June 02, 2016, 06:15:34 pm ---After doing a little reading, for the purpose of just running MC21, I am leaning towards "Linux Lite" - their 3.0 Final (stable) has just been released. It uses xfce, as suggested above, and is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/release-announcements/linux-lite-3-0-final-released/
Any problems installing MC21 on that ?
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The only problem is that I'm not aware of anyone here running it (and in fact haven't heard of it before). So if you run into issues you are potentially on your own because it's not actually a supported distro and none of us will know exactly how to help. My experience has been that smaller "boutique" distros often make inexplicable changes to the functioning of various packages that are poorly documented (if documented at all). And the communitites are tiny, so invariably folks wind up on the forums of the parent distro (in this case ubuntu) with problems that no one can reproduce because someone downstream tweaked a compile flag and didn't tell anyone (this happens all the time with Arch derivatives).
So I'd advise you stick with a "well travelled" distro like Debian, Mint or Ubuntu. The latter two are still debian-based so have the high likelihood of working easily with MC which only officially supports debian. All three are well-maintained, and well represented on the forums here (so you stand a good a chance of getting help even with an unsupported distro). My personal advice is still Debian, especailly if this machine will be an "appliance" for playing music as it's more minimal out of the box, and its much less likely that a stray update will bust everything down the road. If you plan on using the machine as a general purpose computer (i.e. a workstation) ubuntu or mint may be better than vanilla debian, but I'd advise installing Xubuntu (the xfce ubuntu flavor) or Linux Mint Mate edition (rather than the Cinnamon edition). Linux Mint Debian Edition is not the main focus of the mint maintainers; if you want to stay closer to debian, just stick with debian.
My two cents
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