[mythtv-users] A plea for some consideration for the poor suffering MythTV users

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/12/2012 07:41 AM, Richard Morton wrote:
> As a relative linux noob; I tried fedora & ubuntu when I just started 
> with Linux. I liked the concept of sudo and I didnt like that so many 
> commands were different between the two distributions so I 
> standardised on *buntu (or debian derivatives if you prefer).
>
> I still subscribe to the thinking of making life easy for yourself and 
> learning a single distribution is enough work for a hobby; learning 
> redhat and debian and slackware and gentoo, just to work out which is 
> the best is just too big a barrier of entry for most newbies... no 
> wonder they get frustrated and go back to windoze. which brings me 
> back to a comment about the original question above...
>
> In my view I am willing to have something which is only 99% optimised 
> for myth in order to have similar distributions for desktop&server 
> i.e. the *buntu/debian/mint family, the *dora/centos/redhat family. etc.

Yes, and I think that's a /very/ good approach.  If you like 
Debian-based systems, use *buntu or Mint with Mythbuntu repos for your 
MythTV box.  If you like Red-Hat-based systems, use Fedora or whatever 
works with RPM Fusion for your MythTV box.  If you like Arch-based 
systems, use LinHES.

> Anyway; Micheal; would you mind sharing your top 3 myth distributions?

I'm happy to share my opinion on the *top* 3 MythTV distributions.  
(Bottom 3 still withheld.)

In no particular order, the top 3 distributions to use for MythTV are:  
Mythbuntu or any Ubuntu-derivative with which you can use the Mythbuntu 
repos (so, includes Mint); LinHES; Fedora or any Red-Hat-based distro 
with which you can use the RPM Fusion repos.

Mike