[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu or other distro?

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt <acstadt at stadt.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not looking to start a distro war here, just some concise advise.
>>
>> Long term Linux user, played with multiple distros over the years.
>> Mid term MythTV user, first around 0.17 then came back to it about 0.19.
>> Over the past several years, I've generally tracked just behind master,
>> compiling from source.  However I'm finding less and less and time available
>> to maintain my systems to the level I would like.
>>
>> I have one dedicated MBE, one dedicated FE, and a few multi-purpose
>> machines on the network. While I've used Gentoo primarily in the past, at
>> the moment most of my machines are running some form Debian (SID).
>>
>> So, I'm looking for a packaged version of myth, one that tracks the latest
>> *release* (not looking for something tracking master here) fairly closely,
>> and is reasonably stable. I do have one machine in my house which will
>> continue to run Gentoo, but I'm more then willing to determine which git
>> version the packaged version is running and manually build on that one
>> machine, in truth I don't run myth much on that machine anyways.
>
>
> I've used Mythbuntu for several years now and I've been happy with it.
> It's all the standard ubuntu stuff, and really streamlines the process for
> setting up mythtv, mysql, remote controls, etc.   Basically, it mostly lets
> you ignore it as a Linux box and treat it as an appliance -- very little
> Linux tweaking is necessary.
>
> My one complaint with mythbuntu is the inability to easily stop popup
> messages overtaking the mythfrontend.  The update manager has a habit of
> popping up despite all the settings telling it not to.   I eventually
> bludgeoned it into submission, but it was much harder than it should have
> been.

Oh man please tell me how! I have been battling this for ages.