technology Any Linux users?

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

I use LXLE on my laptop cause it's old as fuck but I have a separate hard drive on my gaming PC to boot Ubuntu or Chrome OS from.

[skylights 127]

Big fan of Slackware. I've used it exclusively for years and it's never let me down.

[Celtore 2,770]

Opensuse has really improved... I wanted to go back to KDE because it's honestly my favourite DE and I decided to give opensuse another chance. I tried it out a few years ago and it was really ugly; now, it looks really polished.

 

I had to do do some editing to get my network configuration going (had to go through their configuration tool a bit), but it's fine now. Network issue aside, I don't think I've ever had a smoother install and it figured out my weird partitioning scheme on its own. Top notch!

Edited December 11, 2013 by Celtore

[Tech Pony 64]

you know Suse is one that I should probably know better than I do, it's pretty much the only other one that has commercial applications. Everything else is a RedHat fork. 

[CMQuickfireTK 751]

I haven't really played with Suse tbh, I probably should eventually though.

 

... After I learn some Gentoo

Edited December 11, 2013 by z77

[uuunph 288]

Some other time, I guess.

Edited October 3, 2022 by uuunph

[Tech Pony 64]

Linux on the desktop is best suited for a VM. Just my two cents. 

[CMQuickfireTK 751]

One thing's for sure... I am trying to avoid laptops with touch-screens on them...

 

because lately touch-screen laptops have been more and more ubiquitous

Edited December 12, 2013 by z77

[A Blithering Div 247]

Yes, I use Linux. Good ol' Maemo on my N900 and Mint on my laptop. Over the break I'll probably go back to Manjaro but for now I need the Ronco Rotisserie of distros. I use that thar windowz on the desktop because AMD catalyst is absolute rubbish under Linux. I think come tax returns I'mma get a Nvidia card and roll either Arch, Manjaro or Open Suse on the tower.

[CMQuickfireTK 751]

I haven't had too much problem with AMD Catalyst on my Setup. having a 7950 and all.

[A Blithering Div 247]

I haven't had too much problem with AMD Catalyst on my Setup. having a 7950 and all.

 

7870 user here. Dropped from 240+ FPS on Windows to less than half in Linux playing TF2 and Serious Sam 3 is unplayable. Maybe they've gotten a bit better, but why settle for less when I don't have to?

[CMQuickfireTK 751]

Both are playable on my side... I'll actually see if I can play both with my 6770 in my testing machine.

 

still though, it's your machine, do what you like with it

[Tech Pony 64]

Linux still isn't ready for everyday desktop use other than office productivity. 

[CMQuickfireTK 751]

Linux still isn't ready for everyday desktop use other than office productivity. In my opinion.

ftfy

 

It's perfectly ready in my opinion.

[Gyro Zeppeli 120]

I remember, my sophomore year of high school, in my computer repair class, one of the seniors in the class kept interrupting the teacher asking if her could install Linux on the computer he was using. >.>

[Toaster Bot 183]

My laptop manages the impressive feat of being unable to support Linux, but I do sometimes use my other computer, which I have Linux Mint installed on.

[spoiler= Old Photo]

Yay for having a spare monitor.

 

 

Edited December 12, 2013 by Dr. Ivo Robotnik

[CMQuickfireTK 751]

 awesome!

 

I remember, my sophomore year of high school, in my computer repair class, one of the seniors in the class kept interrupting the teacher asking if her could install Linux on the computer he was using. >.>

 

if it was the computer he was using, and it was built by him, perfectly reasonable.

Edited December 12, 2013 by z77

[Tech Pony 64]

It's come a long ways, but as someone who makes a living off of being a Linux sysadmin and someone who's been an avid user of Linux since Redhat 7.3, I do believe that I'm quite knowledgeable on the subject. There's too much drama in the Linux desktop community. Got a problem with someone??? No worries... just fork it! Now you've got a two sets of people doing the exact same things! So much combined effort is wasted because of the forks.

 

Not only that, but Linux needs to get off this whole open source only kick. Sure... that's good and all for the hobbyist, but it's not what the consumer wants. They want the thing that is going to work the best with the least amount of hassle. Open source drivers collectively blow. Stop using them. 

 

Oh lets see... package manager wars are still an issue. As a developer, I wouldn't want to have to package my application for every single distro out there, and then every single version of every single distro out there.

 

I could go on if you'd like me to. Linux desktop is fine for the hobbyist. For the consumer, it's still far far away. 

 

The sad part is that what the hobbyist wants is not what the consumer wants, but the hobbyist needs the consumer to use Linux to drive better development for it. 

[Gyro Zeppeli 120]

 awesome!

 

 

if it was the computer he was using, and it was built by him, perfectly reasonable.

 

It was one of the shcool's computers. Im not hating on Linux or anything, thats just my only experience involving Linux. 

[CMQuickfireTK 751]

You're right. Consumers want something basically idiot-proof. Ubuntu is close to that, but not quite there.

[Surface 115]

@@Tech Pony, I use Ubuntu because I like it, I like the Unity desktop, I like the applications, I like the HUD...

[Tech Pony 64]

@, that's good for you, if you don't mind Mark Shuttleworth making a quick buck off of your personal information. That's also the choice that Linux gives people, but in the long run it's also the choice(s) that make Linux so unfriendly towards end users and drives development elsewhere. 
 

[CMQuickfireTK 751]

That's nice.

 

btw Tromino: fixubuntu.com

 

may want to bookmark it

Edited December 12, 2013 by z77

[SPLinux 380]

Oh look a Linux thread! As you can tell from my username i am kinda required to post something in a thread like this...

 

Been using Linux for over 5 years and have exclusively used it on my PC for 4 years. Been mostly a Ubuntu user (first distro i tried was Ubuntu 8.10 and first i used as my main OS was 9.10) I plan on moving to Arch Linux soon as my main OS and having Ubuntu on the side to keep an eye on the Ubuntu ecosystem. Everything i need to do on a PC works well with Linux, and i enjoy the freedom, the power and control that Linux provides me. I also find it a lot of fun to mess around with

[KikiTwilight 90]

*raises hoof*

 

I have both Linux Ubuntu and Windows XP on my system, and use Windows... very rarely. I tend to use Linux as much as possible, and even prefer using Wine or other emulators for running Win apps to running Win itself.

 

So, I'm kind of Linux fanatic. I think it's amazing and it goes on my nerves how people often ignore it when making some apps and plugins. Most of my friends laugh at me for it, though. They don't know anything. X)

 

Linux once, Linux forever!

Edited December 12, 2013 by KikiTwilight