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Originally Posted by pazos
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  . |
The problem is with setups like the OP has where his Linux is not up to the task. So he either has to move to a better distro or move to Windows 10. Those are his only choices if he wants to run Calibre 4.9.1 now.
I do agree that a one of the major Linux distros will run Calibre. But don't download from the repository and get Calibre from Kovid directly
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