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Which Linux distro do you roll with?

linuxrich

linuxrich

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I did a bit of a search and can't see that this has been discussed before. So, as there seems to be a few Linux users here...

What distro(s) do you use and why, briefly.

Me, mainly Mepis. I saw a mention of it a few years ago (Around the time of Mepis 3.3.1.) and thought I'd give it a go dual booting with Win 98. It's remained a firm favourite and is now our family default operating system pretty much.

I have a secondary PC that has openSUSE on it. I wanted to play around with a non Debian distro and chose openSUSE because the first Linux I ever tried was SuSE 7.1. I can't see changing to another distro on my backp machine in the near future at all! openSUSE is pretty solid.

I have dabbled with the likes of Ubuntu and PC Linux OS but for some reason they don't do it for me... :cool:
 
I'm in a state of flux atm.

Mint was my goto linux for versions 9, 10 and 11. Mint 12 is out due to wireless issues and intermediate lockups. Ubuntu 11.* seems to work better on my current laptop. I'm also a huge fan of Trisquel which is one of the very few distros which follow GNU licencing to a T, ie; no proprietary software or drivers.

In another post I mentioned I'm using ChromeOS which is nice and fast however, limiting. I'm not a cloud fan for my personal data and keep all my data locally. I'm going to try Trisquel this afternoon to see if it loads on this netbook, HP 210-2170.
 
I hop around. Currently I'm running Bodhi 1.3.0. Setting up all my Android stuff in there and moving it away from my Windows 7 partition, which is going to be for work only.
 
I have been rolling with Ubuntu for almost 4 years. I have Windows on one hard drive and Ubuntu on another in case one of them goes out. Most of the time I am in Ubuntu. Windows is used at least twice a month.
 
i'm kinda the same as NightHawk-i'm in Ubuntu 95% of the time. i tried the newer versions but always went back to 10.04 LTS because it works so flawlessly on my Acer Aspire 5336. i have Windows for Netflix, and that's about it... Ubuntu seems so much faster, and i really like the UI. and 10.04 seems to be a great choice for compiling Android.
 
I've got the biggies in one form or fashion on a couple of machines. Ubuntu is the one I go to more often, but only because I am more familiar with it, but I also have Mint, Fedora SuSE and (for servers) CentOS.

Just like to your average user, Android is more about the launcher than the kernel, so Linux is more about the look and feel of the distro. They all work so you just have to find the one that works best with your hardware and your workflow.

FWIW, I hate Unity.
 
I love unity. Very much. I use gnome on ubuntu I run on my phone and just can't get past the fact its not unity. Yup, this from the guy who replaced his windows shell
 
I jump around. Now I'm on ubuntu 11.10 and arch linux, though I'm sticking mostly with ubuntu right now. Still trying to work out all the kinks with arch.

I enjoy fedora and linux mint as well. Plan to try out debian and cent os pretty soon.
 
I like Unity as well, just takes a short time to get use to then it becomes very intuitive. I still might install Fluxbox ;-)
 
I've used quite a bit of different distros and then started using Debian Testing & Sourcemage, which was my workhorses for along time, along with distro hopping.

As time went on, I started getting tired of tinkering with them, so around '08 I think I installed Mandriva 2008 and stuck with it up until recently. It seems they may be going bankrupt. Now the two I have installed on my home desktop is Mageia 1 and Salix, which is Slackware done easy.
 
I got three partitions on my harddrive. Ubuntu on one, Archbang on another, and pinguyOS on the last.

I mostly use Ubuntu. I adored pinguyOS, but now that they've switched to gnome3 I just can't use it. Archbang is recently installed, and I decided on installing KDE. I must say I like it, but I'm such a gnome guy it's taking a lot of adjustment.
At the moment Unity is what works best for me. I'm not 100% happy with it, but it beats gnome3 in my view.
 
baillou2 said:
I got three partitions on my harddrive. Ubuntu on one, Archbang on another, and pinguyOS on the last.

I mostly use Ubuntu. I adored pinguyOS, but now that they've switched to gnome3 I just can't use it. Archbang is recently installed, and I decided on installing KDE. I must say I like it, but I'm such a gnome guy it's taking a lot of adjustment.
At the moment Unity is what works best for me. I'm not 100% happy with it, but it beats gnome3 in my view.
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use xfce instead of kde imo its a nicer desktop and its built on gnome. I am getting more accustomed to gnome3 but prefer 2 have been thinking about using xfce myself.
 
Unsurprisingly, as I use Mepis and openSUSE (With a background going back to SuSE.) I'm a KDE guy. With a bit of LXDE thrown in.
 
9to5cynic said:
I've been trying out LXDE, which seems pretty nice. I'll have to try out xfce at some point...
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both are built on gnome. xfce was designed to be a lighter desktop than gnome and I believe lxde was designed originally for servers and minimalistic desktop but I'm not sure how much truth is in that. I never really researched the lxde thing.
 
linuxrich said:
Unsurprisingly, as I use Mepis and openSUSE (With a background going back to SuSE.) I'm a KDE guy. With a bit of LXDE thrown in.
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I started out with KDE but really thought it was way to heavy and almost MS'ish so I started using Gnome but now with 3 i'm really wishing they would go back to the look and feel of 2
 
I'd really like to try out KDE on a real screen, last time I used it, it was on a 10 in screen, and that interface is far too large and 'in your face' for a netbook. ;) Unity isn't too bad, but I really prefer the classic gnome 2. And I'm enjoying LXDE so far, from what I've used of it.
 
9to5cynic said:
I'd really like to try out KDE on a real screen, last time I used it, it was on a 10 in screen, and that interface is far too large and 'in your face' for a netbook. ;) Unity isn't too bad, but I really prefer the classic gnome 2. And I'm enjoying LXDE so far, from what I've used of it.
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I agree, netbooks, most anyway have 1024x600 which is quite dated to display the width of many web pages, etc. I shopped around and picked up the HP 210-2170, same 10" screen size but, 1366x768 and a stock 7200RPM drive as well. I doubled the RAM to 2GB and all is good. I had another HP with the new AMD E-450 in a similar notebook and find the Atom N550 to be just as good in every respect despite of the benchmarks out there.

Regardless, Ubuntu 11.10 running Fluxbox uses 168MB at boot, damn efficient and fast :)
 
That's a very impressive resolution for that display, I was looking at 14in lenovos that have that resolution, now, nearly all the reviews complain about that aspect of those computers though...

Anyway, I'm really, *really* digging debian. Thinking I'll completely remove ubuntu for it.... maybe. ;) We'll see how it goes, but right now I'm loving it.
 
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