There is currently no alternative reliable enough to run Stellarium360 aside Linux.
MAGEIA with KDE is perfect for what we want to do and offers advantages over other distributions. For instance, forcing stellarium360 being fullscreen and launching videos with mplayer without any flickering or disturbance on screen. 

You will need a decent computer with a Nvidia graphic card >GT400 or any graphic card compatible with OpenGL4.3 or up.
Intel i5 and GTX750 or up preferred.
Now SpaceCrafter can run on recent ATI and Intel graphic chipsets.

How to install it on Xubuntu 18.4 LTS ?

Unzip the folder into /home/planetarium/ (or ~/ if you have defined an other user)
CTRL+ALT+T
cd spacecrafter-pro-master (or the folder that you have created)
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j8
sudo su
(type your root password)
make install


Xunbuntu installation and "planetarium" environment including SpaceCrafter :

Download Xubuntu 18.04 LTS 64 bits  ISO file here for french users :
http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.xubuntu.com/releases/18.04/release/xubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
Or find your best link here:
https://xubuntu.org/release/18-04/

Burn it into a DVD and boot using it.

The following snapshots are from the 17.04 release but it works the same way...

















Reboot the machine after having extracted the DVD.

The environment installation is possible if you download install.zip.

Uncompress it into /home/test/ with the file explorer (Thunar).
Open a console : (CTRL+ALT+T).
And write into...



cd install
sh install.sh

Follow the instructions...

At the end...

ALT+F2
xfce4-settings-manager

Go into "additional Drivers"



And after the reboot:

Uncompress again install.zip and...
Open a console : (CTRL+ALT+T).
cd install
sh spacecrafter-install.sh

SpaceCrafter should launch automatically after a reboot or press ALT+F1.