I'm inclined to agree.  Since every setup with gear is a bit different, it's easier to us a distro that doesn't fight you, if you need to do something nonstandard to your distro.  (Recompile kernel, use an alternate sound system, use JACK, etc.) You can get just about any distro to do what you need.  The real question is how long are you willing to put in to make that happen?  

Oh, and Slackware, btw. :) 

Jen

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Hi,

I am on openSuse Leap 42.1 (really satisfied), have set up all audio and 
Csound realated stuff easily but in the the past if I needed to install 
everything necessary on a not-mine computer (for example for an installation), 
I have used UbuntuStudio and I was happy that almost everything was already 
there -  so it went just much quicker.

That brings into mind , once Steven brought it up -  would be nice to have a 
Csound Live image easy to start from CD, USB flash or as an embedded system. 
Who can take it up to investigate it and make it happen?

Best!
tarmo

On Sunday 25 September 2016 00:32:52 you wrote:
> I'm inclined to agree.  Since every setup with gear is a bit different, it's
> easier to us a distro that doesn't fight you, if you need to do something
> nonstandard to your distro.  (Recompile kernel, use an alternate sound
> system, use JACK, etc.) You can get just about any distro to do what you
> need.  The real question is how long are you willing to put in to make that
> happen?
> 
> Oh, and Slackware, btw. :)
> 
> Jen
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I've never bothered installing the full KXStudio desktop. I just cherry pick the features I want and install them over my chosen distribution. Never had any issues.