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Don't give me the bloated excuse when Ubuntu to me feels just as bloated as Windows. Sure others distros are not, but they are stripped down to there basic necessities.

Resources are not a problem in this day and age, even 16GBs is overkill even for Windows, and doesn't cost that much.

 

I installed Ubuntu on a computer with less than a Gig of RAM, and a Pentium D, it was atrocious in performance.

 

Maybe Ubuntu is as bloated as Windows... but it's still follows the same philosophy and you can strip it down to what you need, with Win.. not so much.

Uhm.. use software that is appropriate for the platform? Debian still works on PII with 64 megs. 

In regards of software.. Windows is an abomination.

I am sick of all those updates, horrendously outdated practice of "installers", lack of proper way to update apps and other hideous practices.

Which is just a GUI for Wine.

 

 

Not really, more like an extension of idea. 

It has gui, but that's not really the point. 

Wineprefixes is. 

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I just realized something, we're unixcorns!   Though my OC is actually an earth pony

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Just curious.   because I am a major Linux fanatic when I'm not watching ponies.

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Linux guy, reporting in!   I'm a pretty big fan of Linux myself. I haven't been using it long in comparison to other users (4 years), but I'm quite happy with manjaro at the moment. Might go back to

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Nope :P Pure apple :) Would like to use Linux sometime though.

If you go Linux, Go for Mint or for Ubunto.

 

I use two linux distros but due to this morning i am down one and im not saying its name cause i dont wanna give any Linux newbies or anyone ideas but what i can say is thats its custom and based off a non-standard distro

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If you go Linux, Go for Mint or for Ubunto.

 

I use two linux distros but due to this morning i am down one and im not saying its name cause i dont wanna give any Linux newbies or anyone ideas but what i can say is thats its custom and based off a non-standard distro

 

I'd suggest Debian or Crunchbang. Well, and my support with those ofc :) 

Actually one of my friends(a total newbie) ditched ubuntu after a couple of weeks and really enjoying #!  -_-

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I'd suggest Debian or Crunchbang. Well, and my support with those ofc :)

Actually one of my friends(a total newbie) ditched ubuntu after a couple of weeks and really enjoying #!  -_-

i started on Ubunto within windows and climbed the ranks and switched to many different ones until i got Pear OS 8 

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i started on Ubunto within windows and climbed the ranks and switched to many different ones until i got Pear OS 8 and then modded it 

 

I started from Ubuntu 7.something, absolutely disliked it and tried Mandriva 20** which I then killed on many occasions. then quick detour of various distros - debian, slack, gentoo, mint and.. well, in the end, nothing beats #! for me :)  

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i see you also have a secret distro like me :)

 

It's not secret, it's how it's called :P 

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Oh, i never heard of that/those ones

 

Havent heard about it until few months ago :)

It was first was based on Ubuntu, but they switched to Debian in the last 2 releases http://crunchbang.org/

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Do any of you use tiling windows managers? I'm using i3 in Mint 16 XFCE and it's pretty cool. Just starting to get use to it

 

 

Thought about using awesome but decided I'll just lose the flexibility. 

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Thought about using awesome but decided I'll just lose the flexibility. 

 

Yeah, I could see that. It is weird to get use to not having a desktop, and feels a bit unfriendly.  Plus it puts conky in it's own window and shit which is kind of annoying. I suppose it would be cool if you took the time to configure it properly. I'm considering just switching back to the native one and using the built in tiling functions since XFCE is pretty damn good looking and light. 

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Yeah, I could see that. It is weird to get use to not having a desktop, and feels a bit unfriendly.  Plus it puts conky in it's own window and shit which is kind of annoying. I suppose it would be cool if you took the time to configure it properly. I'm considering just switching back to the native one and using the built in tiling functions since XFCE is pretty damn good looking and light. 

 

After trying openbox+tint2+conky.. 

I dont think I can look with a straight face on XFCE or monsters like gnome/kde ever again  :umad:

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Tiling ftw.

 

Not really missing anything. Linux nerds will swear up and down it is amazing, and why it is better then Windows, blah blah blah. Linux is only useful as a server, or basic OS for businesses. Unless you use nothing but a web browser, linux is no good for home use.

 

Maybe for you.

I'll be on the #! forums if you want me.

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Fairly impressed with BSD unix myself.

 

So how is the BSD camp and what variant are you running? I've only had one experience with BSD and it lasted for a fairly short time. It was PCBSD with an early version of KDE 4 running on it and just seeing it was almost an instant turn-off. (It's gotten better...) I know about the jail system in FreeBSD as well and I think is a really cool idea.

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I used Ubuntu 10.04LTS forever! (until right before Christmas)....I hate the Unity interface, and I was so unhappy that it got to the point that I couldn't upgrade firefox because I needed packages that didn't exist for 10.04 (in other words, I was forced to update).

So...I played around with few other OS's, including Puppy, Mint, Lubuntu, Mandriva, Tiny Core, SliTaz, and Vector.....my computer is 7 years old, and at the time, the HDD was slowly going to crap (only 70 available gb storage out of 160), so I was trying out lighter weight systems.....and none really ever 'tasted' right....unti Fedora....

 

So yeah...now all my computers have Fedora. LOVE IT! Red Hat knows what it's doing...and yum....YUM....just the name makes it awesome! YUM CHEESE SANDWICH....someone make that!!!!

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I see, None of my machines run all the same distro.

 

Desktop runs Debian, HTPC runs eOS, secondary runs Slackware, my laptop and server run Arch, other server runs freeNAS, and another machine not really doing anything, might become the BSD box.

 

So how is the BSD camp and what variant are you running? I've only had one experience with BSD and it lasted for a fairly short time. It was PCBSD with an early version of KDE 4 running on it and just seeing it was almost an instant turn-off. (It's gotten better...) I know about the jail system in FreeBSD as well and I think is a really cool idea.

 

Right now I'm only using FreeNAS since I had a machine that I wasn't really doing anything with, for what it's doing I like it. I think I'll try FreeBSD on the box I'm not using, when college has calmed down a little bit.

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I'll be on the #! forums if you want me.

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I saw this topic and just wanted to say that I'm not using Linux.

 

 

 

See y'all around

 

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Well, a few months ago I finished my desktop build, and I've been running Arch + Openbox on my desktop and laptop for the past few months and I'm in love with it. Pacman is phenomenal.

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