# Beginner: Distros and system setup for MRtrix **URL:** https://community.mrtrix.org/t/beginner-distros-and-system-setup-for-mrtrix/726 **Category:** Uncategorized **Tags:** installation **Created:** [February 16, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/beginner-distros-and-system-setup-for-mrtrix/726 "2017-02-16T20:43:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![rsmith](https://community.mrtrix.org/user_avatar/community.mrtrix.org/rsmith/32/2672_2.png) [@rsmith](https://community.mrtrix.org/u/rsmith) #### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/beginner-distros-and-system-setup-for-mrtrix/726/2 "2017-02-21T02:27:04Z")
Hi @jramend, Myself and @jdtournier are both Arch Linux users 🤓, and I’d hazard a guess that any other Linux machines used by developers are probably Ubuntu. Personally I’m using xfce as my WM, kernel 4.4.48-1-lts on a single GTS 250 (LTS kernel required to keep the older 340.xx video drivers working). Are you attempting to use bumblebee or similar to deal with the multiple GPUs? I believe @Dave has some experience with that. It might be worth copy&pasting your configure script log (make sure you [format it](http://community.mrtrix.org/t/formatting-tricks-for-increased-readability/34) so it doesn’t clog everybody’s screens!) just in case it contains any hints. > That, or skipping Linux altogether and perhaps choosing to run MRtrix through a Linux subsystem on Windows. That works for console commands; but as far as I know, nobody has managed to get `mrview` working through WSL. The [Windows installation instructions](http://mrtrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/windows_install.html) therefore remain using MSYS2. I use this on my laptop; I still have an annoying recurring issue where the icons in `mrview` don’t appear, but it works, and the NVidia drivers can be set up to utilise the dedicated graphics card whenever `mrview` is executed. Unfortunately it does mean that _MRtrix3_ scripts that depend on FSL commands cannot be used natively. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/beginner-distros-and-system-setup-for-mrtrix/726)._