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Title: Which Linux Distro to Use?
Post by: iPanini on April 24, 2025, 12:53:38 pm

Edit: Split from https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,140758.msg976216.html#msg976216

Congratulations on the very nice write up! You've got yourself a very beautifull setup!

Question:
Seeing that you have plenty of Linux background, I'm starting out with JRiver  and have a Master License and am looking into setting up JRiver on a NUC. (I have a couple laying around, so might as well try)
I've limited experience with e.g. Proxmox, when I need to do something I tend to default to Ubuntu since it is so omnivalent around everywhere, but have no particular preference. In the past I have worked quite a bit on LinuxMCE, kind of a (dead) competitor of JRiver, but at the time (2009 ~ 2014) it was a brilliant and very capable system, with features like whole house and follow me (video / audio would follow you if you move from system to system).

What distro would you recommend as a base install to set up JRiver?
(I've just got JRiver setup on macOS, running fine but still a whole lot to discover)

One other thing I have in mind:
- Use dual monitors; One smaller one as a control system, the other would go to a TV via HDMI.
Is that a feasible thing with Linux distros these days?

Thanks for helping out!

Title: Re: Which Linux Distro to Use?
Post by: JimH on April 25, 2025, 01:08:09 am

Debian or Ubuntu

Title: Re: Which Linux Distro to Use?
Post by: iPanini on April 25, 2025, 03:47:27 pm

Thanks!

And what "X-server" or whatever fullfils its job does JRiver recommend?
Mostly thinking in terms of dual monitor, one of these being "the" TV and the other being the "control" machine. (Might even be a wireless laptop)

Thanks for helping out!

Title: Re: Which Linux Distro to Use?
Post by: Awesome Donkey on April 25, 2025, 04:35:07 pm

Unless you have specific problems which require a X11 session, you should be able to use a Wayland session just fine thanks to XWayland. Personally, I'd recommend Ubuntu.

Title: Re: Which Linux Distro to Use?
Post by: antenna on April 25, 2025, 09:25:35 pm

Quote from: JimH on April 25, 2025, 01:08:09 am

Debian or Ubuntu

In my experience, I agree.

 
Though, if I may add, the Cinnamon window manager seems to have stability issues which resulted, for me, in a very frustrating evening.

So I moved from Linux Mint using Cinnamon to Linux Mint using MATE.

Since that move, it's been nothing but blue skies and sunshine for me in my (admittedly, limited) Media Center client  experience.

Though, there is one thing I'd like to see...

In Theater view, a menu pick to Shutdown the PC.

That is currently stopping me from moving my Windows 10 MC client to Linus.