Ever used Linux [Archive] - The Explosm Fora

miimii

08-11-2008, 6:28 AM

What distribution was it, and would you consider using it full time over Windows? Not a Dual-Boot, but completely switched over.

I have used Ubuntu and Gentoo. Ubuntu was feature packed and has so much support for it, Gentoo was nice and you have to do a lot of the work in setting it up yourself, while Ubuntu holds your hand.

Indoctrine

08-11-2008, 7:40 AM

I've used Ubuntu, compiling Gentoo perhaps this weekend, I have completely switched over once, all other times I've installed on a portable hard drive. :)

mohaas05

08-11-2008, 7:47 PM

Yes and it was hell.

scrapz

08-12-2008, 2:56 AM

I've used Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Ubuntu and BSD - along with a few other lesser known spinoffs.

Personally, I like Debian, because it Just Works, and the package management system is pretty pimp. I use it for all my server stuff. It was Slackware before that (and I swore by it), but I grew tired of the package management system (along with it's outdated trees) when I knew better. And while I've heard fantastic things about BSD, I could never really get the hang of it.

Ubuntu is pretty slick, and I've used it as a desktop replacement for awhile. But, being a gamer, had to keep Windows. The dual booting got to me and I just stuck with Windows.

Gentoo used to be cool because it was very much oriented towards the fine-tuning roll-your-own style of OS, tweaking every last ounce out of your system. Now it's full of wizards and prebuilt packages which kinda defeats the purpose. While you can still roll-your-own, to me, it's Just Another Distro.

Red Hat is Old Hat, and now they don't really care for the end user, aiming for the corporate market. And the unique package system left more than just a few headaches.

I don't think Linux would ever replace an entire Windows environment for me, there's just too much dependency (with work stuff too). But I will always recommend it for server applications.

ilovebrownies

08-12-2008, 5:53 AM

I've used Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Ubuntu and BSD - along with a few other lesser known spinoffs.

BSD isn't linux, it's a different kernel altogether.

Gentoo used to be cool because it was very much oriented towards the fine-tuning roll-your-own style of OS, tweaking every last ounce out of your system. Now it's full of wizards and prebuilt packages which kinda defeats the purpose. While you can still roll-your-own, to me, it's Just Another Distro.

Ever tried Arch Linux? It's pretty much exactly the way you described Gentoo, only it's still like that.

I'm currently on Ubuntu and, not being much of a gamer, have yet to turn back to Windows.

Chrono

08-12-2008, 10:08 AM

I dual boot Ubuntu, but i'm barely using it anymore, it doesn't make enough of a difference and i mainly just use my computer for browsing and iTunes

Nibbles

08-12-2008, 12:39 PM

My father worked for RedHat for a good long while, so I've played around mostly with RedHat and Fedora Core for years. Yes, I use them in day-to-day life for writing school papers, E-Mail, web browsing, etc. Sometimes it's a bitch to get linux to work with some hardware, but it's nothing a quick google search and a brain can't remedy. I've also tasted Kubuntu (mainly because everybody kept telling me "OMG YOU HAVE TO TRY UBUNTU!" but I absolutely refuse to use gnome), and for most people, I would certainly recommend it, especially if it's your first Linux.

Though no, I have never switched all the way over to linux, but I certainly wouldn't mind it. I have a bunch of computers and it makes no sense to me to switch them all over to one OS, I like the variety.

Though I must say, recently, Fedora Core has been pouring out updates a little too frequently. It seemed to me like Fedora 7 and 8 were available for like two months each before the next version was released. =/

mohaas05

08-14-2008, 1:47 PM

Why don't you like gnome?

Indoctrine

08-15-2008, 7:30 AM

I much prefer Gnome, 'tis much more stable than KDE. And if you like neither, you can always use xfce. But still, Gnome is the best I've used, KDE tends to crash alot in Kubuntu.

It's a bit of a disappointment... that's what you get for designing an environment to look like Windows.

Captiva

08-20-2008, 1:09 AM

I've been running Ubuntu for a couple years, and more recently dual-booted with XP for my game design class, only for necessity of needing the new Flash programme.

A lot of the games at Chuck E. Cheese's run on Linux boxes, too. Which always makes me smile when I see the prompt.

I prefer Linux over Windows, I'm a Linux fangirl really, although I know I have to have Windows for a lot of things to function.

I'm about to buy a new laptop, which sadly comes with Vista default. So I get to fiddle with partition reassignment without reformatting, which I've never tried before. Fun times ahead ...

HappySmileMan

08-27-2008, 2:18 PM

Kubuntu and Gentoo, I don't use Windows at all anymore because it won't recognise my sound card (even if it did I probably wouldn't use it).

I'm aware that Kubuntu is a terrible KDE distro, but it seems to be getting better, and it has a lot of good features that other KDE distros don't thanks to piggy-backing on Ubuntu.

I was also about to reply that KDE is in my experience more stable than Gnome... But while writing this I accidentally crashed my desktop trying to test my cyanide and happiness engine for the comics plasmoid... But I guess that's my fault and not KDEs?

Frutol

08-27-2008, 4:38 PM