Anyone using Linux?

[pacman]

Wow, I didn't know Richard Stallman had an account on these forums! Looks like we have a celebrity here.

HAHA, I'm not Stallman, lol. I typically use the term GNU/Linux, but I don't really care if people call it Linux.

Having said that it is harder to do a lot of things on there, for me anyway. It's harder to find software with a gui (or at all). Then there are the compatibility issues between versions. Then there's the fact that whenever I try to find a guide I end up with 2-5 year old instructions that are no longer relevant - or can't find a solution at all. I'm not that interested in using the terminal. Sure, I have had to do it many times but it shouldn't be necessary, I mean, if you want more people to use linux.

I'm sure you've heard of this, but you should try some version of Ubuntu, since the documentation for it is very well up to date and it is a distribution designed to be "user-friendly" and it shouldn't require a terminal. Plus, most instructions out there assume someone is using Ubuntu. Now, if you do want to use the terminal, then instructions being old shouldn't really be much of an issue, because wild changes in shell commands would break a lot of scripts.

 

[apt-get]

I use Debian GNU/Linux.

 

[Ravkrat]

i usually keep a copy of slitaz distro on my 2 gig flashdrive, just incase i need to work on a computer but not logging onto it from an account.

 

[tridianprime]

I use debian 7. I mostly write java and c++ as well as play some games that I port by contributing to the GIT wine files. It means I get double the fun when trying to play a windows game.

 

[The Penguin]

I'm using Linux for web servers as VM's using vSphere

 

[StephF]

I have used Linux since 96 so thats about 18 years now. I love being in charge of my system,.
In Windows I can login as an Admin and still be told "You cant do that, you need to be an Admin"

Linux gives you the availibility of granular control. There is less bloat and faster operation at least
from my perspective. I run the latest Debian and love it although I understand the comment about
Slackware being tricky to get the hang of in the beginning. My first experience was with Slackware !

 

[113]

I've been using GNU/Linux for about 10 years. It's great.

I'm currently using Ubuntu with xmonad, but I want to get away from Ubuntu, since I don't like the company any more. I was a very active supporter of Ubuntu until they added the Amazon spyware and Unity, which I felt was a huge betrayal of the community.

Maybe Debian or Arch will be next.

 

[The Penguin]

I've been using GNU/Linux for about 10 years. It's great.

I'm currently using Ubuntu with xmonad, but I want to get away from Ubuntu, since I don't like the company any more. I was a very active supporter of Ubuntu until they added the Amazon spyware and Unity.

Maybe Debian or Arch will be next.

Yeah I been reading a lot lately people not liking Ubuntu. I think my web server using Debian

 

[balder]

I agree that Ubuntu + Amazon stuff is not a good idea, but I understand that the guys want to get some profit after all. And as long as there's a way to turn all that off, I think this is not a big problem.

I don't know, I always try to make other distributions beautiful to my eyes, but Ubuntu's still the one with the most beautiful interface. I agree that Unity is very bad, but overall it's easy to improve its performance.

For those worried about privacy on Ubuntu, there's this site: Fix Ubuntu

 

[StephF]

Debian is nice, thats what I dual boot too

 

[AsheSkyler]

I adore Linux and generally anything open source. My laptop is running whatever is the most recent flavor of Ubuntu. I had Fedora on my desktop for the longest dual-booting with Windows (since my games and art programs don't generally work on Linux), and I have Live CDs for PCLinuxOS and quite a few Fedora systems. I'm probably going to get some Live CDs for other kinds of Linux too, a lot of them look pretty interesting! What drove me off of Fedora was when they upgraded to Gnome 3 and I couldn't get it back to 2. Did NOT like 3!

 

[StephF]

Kali is great for me, its based of Debian but lots of nice tools to work with.

 

[apt-get]

Currently on Arch for my laptop. The machines that I use for my research use either Debian or Ubuntu.

 

[TallyMan]

I've recently switched to using Kubuntu and find it quite good. I want to start developing software for Linux but still haven't figured out the best way to go with this. I'm considering Qt - anyone have any experience with this?

 

[CSCoder4ever]

I've been using Linux for a few years, started out with an Ubuntu 10.10 VM, then downloaded the 11.04/11.10s for other VMs. But it wasn't until 2 years ago I decided to try Linux mint 13 on my laptop. From then on, I was able to transfer to more difficult distros with little to no hassle.

Well skipping ahead another year and half, here I am now using either Crunchbang, Arch ( vanilla arch, I don't do derivatives! ), and Slackware. Although I'm starting to look into the BSDs... since the whole Systemd and Lennart thing going on. OpenBSD is my current favorite BSD right now for those curious

 

[StephF]

I guess it kinda depends what you are into. I love security and networking stuff.
The Kali distribution has a lot of tools to analyze and fuzz stuff.
I taught myself everything I know as regards Linux. The learning curve may be a little steep but it can be outrageously addictive.

 

[dragonwolf]

I've been running Linux full time since around 2007, after Windows Vista failed hard on my computer (lost network card every other reboot, had to reinstall card drivers and reboot to get it to see it).

I switched to Ubuntu and pretty much stayed there until around 2011. The early versions of Unity were horribly hostile to dual monitors, so switched to Fedora and was running a dual-boot Fedora and Windows 7 for a time. Over the next year or two, I bounced a couple of times between Fedora and Ubuntu, but I didn't like the Amazon search stuff and eventually the entire paradigm that came with it (seriously, if I want to search the Internet, I'll search the Internet, not my computer; it was an interesting idea, but quickly got out of hand for my taste) and the need to disable all that in a fresh desktop install, so I settled on Fedora until this past summer.

I'd always been a Gnome fan, and especially liked Gnome 3 (I know, it sounds weird that I didn't like Unity, but love Gnome 3; there are differences between the two), but workflow issues with the notification system forced me to change environments. I had friends who were Arch converts and raved about it, but my past attempts to install it "the Arch way" generally resulted in failure, so I was sticking to Fedora for work, dual-boot with Windows 8.1 for gaming (a couple of bleeding-edge games didn't have Linux support yet, so I took it as a good opportunity to keep the Linux side clean for work). Then, a friend introduced me to Antergos, which is Arch with a nice installer and extra repository (not that it's particularly needed, since the Arch and AUR repositories are available by default, as well). I used it to install and switched to KDE (since it has finally stopped looking like something from a toy store), and have been on it since.

I love it, because I'm a web developer and Linux is the most friendly environment for the things I do. I also don't have to fight with virus software, and things like software updates are handled centrally, through the package manager (so I don't get a hundred annoying popups of "there's a new update available, download it now?"). I just in general find it nicer to work with on a regular basis than either Windows or Mac.

 

[The Penguin]

I've been running Linux full time since around 2007, after Windows Vista failed hard on my computer (lost network card every other reboot, had to reinstall card drivers and reboot to get it to see it).

Oh gosh, Vista was as much as a nightmare as ME.

 

[Judge]

Oh gosh, Vista was as much as a nightmare as ME.

Yep, both were in between much better operating systems. I liken most of Microsoft's operating systems to Star Trek movies. That every other one is likely to be either very good or very bad.

But this may change with Windows 8 to Windows 10. This latest version doesn't seem to be impressing anyone when Microsoft badly needs to impress everyone.

Next stop Linux....

 

[The Penguin]

Yep, both were in between much better operating systems. I liken most of Microsoft's operating systems to Star Trek movies. That every other one is likely to be either very good or very bad.

But this may change with Windows 8 to Windows 10. This latest version doesn't seem to be impressing anyone when Microsoft badly needs to impress everyone.

Next stop Linux....

The new Metro theme for Win 8 I can't stand and the fact they removed the start menu. Though I know there add on to get the start menu back which I have, people should't have to go to this trouble. I'm not happy with the next laptop I buy I will be stuck with Win 8 when I want 7. It can also be hard to install Win 7 on the new laptop as there could be odds there no driver support. Well I guess it part of life.