[Tex/LaTex] Installing MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows 8

Question

I'm about to have my students use LaTeX. I'm a Mac user, so a simple install of MacTeX is very straightforward.

I'm concerned about students installing MiKTeX on Windows 8 as the system requirements on miktex.org say:

MiKTeX 2.9 requires one of the following Windows operating systems:

Windows 7

Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 (all editions except Starter Edition)

Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (all editions except Starter Edition)

So, OK to install on Windows 8? Any Windows 8 users out there using MiKTeX 2.9 successfully? If so, any installation suggestions I can share with my students?

Answer 1

As a number of users report, there are no problems with installing MiKTeX 2.9 in Windows 8.

Let me by the way point to some notorious caveats not related to Windows 8:

• Upon installation one has to choose, if the installation should be done in administrative mode or not, see therefore Difference between administrative and user mode of MiKTeX (This is has nothing to do with the user “Administrator”! Also as this user you can install in user mode.)

• There’s a different philosophy with local texmf trees (TeX directory structure) compared with TeX Live/MacTeX, see Create a local texmf tree in MiKTeX. Also it does not make use of these variables like TEXMFLOCAL or TEXMFHOME, see e.g. MikTeX does not use TEXMFLOCAL environment variable.