Linux rocks

[ewe2]

I use linux daily but some may only use it in a server context. I'm interested to see who uses more than one OS too, since Linux can't do everything (yet). So I use Mac and Windows also. This is multiple choice, people, so rack up them votes!

[AntZ]

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I dual boot Linux and Windows, and whenever I don't need the net (I am using a winmodem at the moment) I mainly use Linux for all my day-to-day needs.

[wolfpac181]

yeah.....

I use linux, unix, windows, and macs.

Dig the linux. it's my work machine. Using ubuntu there, and it's doin the trick for me. anyway. that's that.

[fastandbulbous]

I dual boot XP and Suse 9.3

I've been using XP recently, but I'm just being lazy.

New to the linux thing, it seems really....configurable......and the satisfaction of getting a wireless lan card to work after hours of fecking around is unreal. Installing software is taking me a while to get used to, but while I'm trying to get used to all this I can see it's a powerful OS.

[Deimos]

I'm dual boot XP and SuSe 9.3 as well. Except I think the hdd that my SuSe installation is on is a bit dead because it won't acually load the OS anymore so until I get around to fixing it I am stuck with XP again.

[jambo]

I haven't got around to upgrading from DOS.

[FireHart]

DOS? It's already out?!

I use XP, linux scares me.

[Bifrost]

I run an XP gaming box with a fat graphics card and a SuSE 9.3 fileserver/everything else server.

I got sick of rebooting to play games, so I just stuck with single-OS boxes.

[eeefreak]

linux makes me cry with frustration. every couple of months i install it on one of my boxes, play with it for 2 days, then delete it before i hurl the box through the wall.

[Vardsy]

I dual boot Windows 3.1 and Linux 0.95

[wolfpac181]

wow. you are my awsomess hero.....linux 0.95? can you send me that?
all 4 5.25 Floppies???

[Uther Pendragon]

I use a linux desktop at home for everything. I use winex for gaming and most of the games I really really want to play either work through that or have a native client anyway.

There are bits and pieces that are a little quirkier to get running under linux but projects like hal, project utopia and hotplug are changing that very quickly.

Go install the latest and greatest ubuntu on any halfway modern machine and tell me that wouldn't suit most people fine.

[jambo]

I use a linux desktop at home for everything. I use winex for gaming and most of the games I really really want to play either work through that or have a native client anyway.

There are bits and pieces that are a little quirkier to get running under linux but projects like hal, project utopia and hotplug are changing that very quickly.

Go install the latest and greatest ubuntu on any halfway modern machine and tell me that wouldn't suit most people fine.

I fully endorse Ubuntu. I've got it on an old-school iMac that isn't up to running OSX. Great stuff.

[Uther Pendragon]

I actually run debian myself, but I recommend ubuntu to everybody I meet because it is far simpler to get running and behaving itself and will generally set up all the nice shiny things without much user interaction.

Then you get the added benefits of synaptic/apt installations and dist-upgrades

yum is a decent tool for redhat, but it always leaves me thinking it's just a piss poor imitation of apt.

I like the way debian works, it makes sense, it puts decent help files in all the right spots, it puts the config files in sane places and generally just works. Then you throw the extra installation goodness of ubuntu on there and you are starting to see something really good.

A couple more releases from now I think ubuntu will be absolutely fantastic.

[macgyver]

I look after alot of linux (read debian - the one the only :) )servers for our ISP side of business but mainly Windows stuff for customers - we got away from linux with customers cause we found it tended to attract the people who were on the cheaper side of the market. Generally those customers who used MS expected licensing costs and had very few problems when the questions of $ come up, and the fact we make profit on MS software cant hurt I guess.

Years ago I used to use Linux on my desktop but I have to say that since xp came out I just cant bring myself to go back again. Maybe its time for a linux desktop refresher.

[Siamhie]

linux DOES rock!!!!!

had a triple boot system (winxp/linux/openbsd) running for awhile, but when i upgraded slackware to 10.1, i went back to a dual boot and blew away the openbsd partition.

the last time i was booted into windose, i recieved a virtual memory error while editing videos.....wtf, isn't my 768mb of ram good enough. since then, i found a proggy called LiVES (http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/), so now i don't have any reason to boot into windows anymore.

[druid]

the last time i was booted into windose, i recieved a virtual memory error while editing videos.....wtf, isn't my 768mb of ram good enough.

You would help yourself and the whole society if you learned the difference between RAM and virtual memory. On top of that, editing videos can easily consume the entire 32-bit address space.

[Siamhie]

You would help yourself and the whole society if you learned the difference between RAM and virtual memory. On top of that, editing videos can easily consume the entire 32-bit address space.
i was trying to be sarcastic.....i have a 2g empty partition solely for virtual memory

[Vardsy]

Why has no-one mentioned Xandros - I have found it is the most compatible with all hardware straight out of the box.

Oh and Druid wins again

[Kezza]

Why has no-one mentioned Xandros - I have found it is the most compatible with all hardware straight out of the box.


Because it sucks :)

personally I would say the only choice of os if you are using linux on your desktop is ubuntu.. It seriously rocks.. and just keeps getting better with every release.

Kezza.

[jambo]

i was trying to be sarcastic.....

Don't give up the day job.

[Uther Pendragon]

Because it sucks :)

personally I would say the only choice of os if you are using linux on your desktop is ubuntu.. It seriously rocks.. and just keeps getting better with every release.

Kezza.

Speaking of which, they have just released v 5.10

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

[~vjay~]

As an Xp and Suse user, I shall say I like both of them, but I mainly use the Xp because I am lazy.
Next time I reboot I shall have to use Suse.

Dual boot systems rock.

[Guest.]

I dual boot XP and SuSe on my laptop.

I hold all data on my Netware box.

[1101]

Linux freaking rocks allright,

I use DSL all the time;
The whole OS is 50mb and it boots off anything, live-cd, businesscard-cd, network (in 2-3 diffrent methods), thumbdrive , SD card, it can boot INSIDE window$ from MP3 players not to mention good ol HDD. I have a USB key that can boot if you set usb-zip in your bios AND it will boot embedded within window$. Hell, you can boot the OS inside itself and have two instances running, one through a CPU emulator.

And if thats not got you to go and get it, it comes with three webbrowsers (including firefox), three text editors (but one of them is vi...), XMMS, XPaint, and can be upgraded by modules. Theres modules for all sorts of crap, like open office or bittorrent clients, MSN clients, other media players and other file browsers (only comes with emelfm and mc). Whats more it'll run on your shitty computer, or if you have a hotshit computer (with like 128+ ram) it can run entirely inside the ram.


Best distro ever...
( go get it: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org )
Best feature: DOOM.DSL module

[Kamikazee]

Duel boot.. but havnt booted into windows for about 6 months :P

Linux is my desktop of choice.

[wolfpac181]

I've been playin with SymphonyOS. really neat debian based system. has a nice desktop (not the runaround KDE or Gnome). It's even able to run OSX widgets!

linky goodness (www.symphonyos.com)

[astro]

I use windows XP as i'm more of a gamer than anything else. Currently running morphix (a debian branch) and suse9.2 under VMWare.

[sagit]

Because it sucks :)
..

agreed

[CrashMagic]

i used to dual boot winxp + slackware

but now i cbf to have dualboot anymore


however! get your slacks (http://www.slackware.com) on!

[jannon]

Use it daily at work, stopped using it as a desktop at home since I've upgraded to a 64 bit machine. Once my current XP becomes old (in two years) I'll upgrade it to Linux for speed :)

Before I've used Linux at home as a desktop for over two years, no cool games but it does the job pretty well. For example, you can convert long movies from one format to another and burn to cd at the same time without degradation in performance. It is far better in multitasking and buffering even from XP.

Drivers for it have mainly been rewritten; without too much rush and after the windows ones. I think this also plays a major factor. The only thing is to watch about is the hardware you buy, pick it from a wrong (cheap-windows-only) manufacturer and you'll stick with kissing Bill Gates hand (in a knee down position).

[Sutter]

I'd vote in this poll if the answers weren't so crap. I use windows, but Microsoft aren't my masters, I've never paid for it.

[jasebert]

I dislike linux. We have an openbsd firewall running squid and some mail stuff and everytime we have an issue with mail or internet, you can bet it is the OpenBSD box. The linux guy comes and fixes it up, and it works ok for a while, but then something happens and we ask him again to fix the issue. Or I could dislike the linux guy.....
I do not like how most drivers are a bitch to install, blah blah from a non-linux user :boohoo:

But...... saying that the reason I think I do not like it is because I do not know how to use it, and I would like to learn, but that is a new years resolution.

[Peach]

Sorry to be anal, OpenBSD is not Linux.

[jasebert]

Sorry to be anal, OpenBSD is not Linux.

That shows how much I know about Linux doesnt it?:stooge:

[Kamikazee]

duel boot XP pro and Mepis :)
use windows for programming (cant run visual studio on linux :/ ) ... but apart from that i use linux for day-to-day use.

[Uther Pendragon]

use windows for programming (cant run visual studio on linux :/ ) ... but apart from that i use linux for day-to-day use.

Since when was visual studio programming? Ever heard of gcc? Get a makefile up ya!

Give eclipse a go, drop that visual studio junk.

[Kamikazee]

lol uther, i'd love to get into programming for linux, but ive got to learn it first :) ... but the programming is for work.

[kré]

duel boot XP pro and Mepis :)
use windows for programming (cant run visual studio on linux :/ ) ... but apart from that i use linux for day-to-day use.
duel boot eh? xp pro and mepis at 30 paces?

[Kamikazee]

actually, its 40 paces because that requires more skill. ;) yes i know its spelt wrong and i dont care.

[Fred_Nerk]

I use XP on home home machine cause I'm a gamer, and World of Warcraft is a bit unstable under Linux with an ATI video card.

Still, if I want to do anything *useful* at home, I remote desktop into my linux fileserver and use that.. The benefits of both!

Also I use Ubuntu on my work laptop.
And my media PC.
And my home laptop.

[jannon]

But I'm curious to know why you think Linux lags behind on the 64bit platform when ubuntu has led 64bit distribution support for two years and overall 64bit support in several other non-Microsoft platforms has easily led XP by years.

Lagging behind windows? Far from it, 64bit linux came out two or three years before the windows beta that crashed and wasn't fully running their office suit.
I haven't tried ubuntu but for businesses I recommend SUSE with KDE. Novell did a lot of work/risk with Linux in the last five years. Last I heard of Suse was that the top developers for Linux left Novell, which is not good.

[jannon]

Programmers should also look at eclipse, its not just for Java. It's close to being the best multi-platform programming environment ever made, and its industry support is growing. Sure, if you only program Windows, you're going to prefer Visual Studio, but the world is bigger than that, and eclipse is starting to show up in job adverts. I'm biased because I'm an old vi+makefile, rinse and repeat guy, but eclipse is the first non-MS environment that seriously cuts it since the Borland IDE.


Yeap, Eclipse absolutely rules, it looks so good and free on Linux as well.
There is a C/C++ plugin/project for eclipse but I think it's still in its early stages.

[maxim]

I use Linux on my servers, Windows XP at work (only because I have to) and a Mac at home.

Add a couple of Xboxes and a PSP and you get all of the toys.

More toys/OSes/etc = goodness

[STallingU]

This is my first post using Ubuntu. Everything seems to be running fine at the moment. But havnt checked everything yet. This is my first time using Linux. I'm glad it set up my network automaticly because I would have no idea how to find any of that stuff first. So I now have a dual boot. Just having abit of trouble installing things. I don't know how. But will get there.