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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There are too many different versions of Linux. A lot that aren't up to the task. And then there are the versions of Calibre in the repositories that are either old versions ar hey don't work properly. Windows 10 is a free upgrade to Windows 7 so you can upgrade Windows 7 and be able to run Calibre 4.x.
Linux is the smallest base for Calibre users with the most issues.
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Too many linux distros? Yeah
A lot that aren't up to the task? Not my experience if the task is run calibre. Latest binary installer of calibre works fine in all major distros. They just need non-legacy versions of gnu libc and gcc g++ runtime.
I think issues are different between distros based on the package maintainer. FWIW the arch package maintainer does a incredible work both keeping calibre updated and contributing upstream. The windows package maintainer does a better job, because it is Kovid himself.
So, yeah. Both Arch and Windows10 are good options to run calibre. I will never recommend arch to a windows user and you probably won't recommend windows to an arch user. Happily we won't need to recommend anything to any of these users, because they don't have problems with the package, because it is well maintained
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