Hello Κοτοπούλης,

I am currently thinking of turning to Linux so that using the Einstein Toolkit becomes easier. Which Linux version should I prefer?

We test the Einstein Toolkit on a number of Linux distributions before each release and it should work on any of them. You can see the list here: http://einsteintoolkit.org/testsuite_results/index.php and currently it includes: debian (stable and testing release), Fedora Core (29), Linux Mint (19.1), OpenSuSE (Tumbleweed), Ubuntu (18.04 long-term-support and 18.10), CentOS (7).

Any of the Desktop distributions should work without problems. CentOS (since it targets servers) can be a bit more tricky since the default installation may not install any GUI.

If you have not used Linux before you are probably best off using a common distribution like Ubuntu.

Yours, Roland