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RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?

So Ubuntu (sirhomer?) has been crying bout how everybody is dissin' (lol) him because he's using linux..

Just to keep nuts like him from playing this card let's make a list of niners that prefer and/or use Linux daily that also think other niners don't ridicule or attack them because of their OS preference. I know this proves nothing to trolls like him, but we can just shove them this thread when they start crying how this is some kind of fanboi site conspiracy... bah...

Everybody using linux, raise your hands.. Smiley

spivonious

I try it every couple of years. It's 100x better than it was, but it still feels like using Windows 95.

That and none of my wireless cards have ever been supported out of the box.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

I run all of my experiments on clusters using Linux servers, and am quite adept with bash scripts and the likes.

On the desktop I still prefer Windows though.

figuerres
???

where to start... around 1995 i was getting slackware 1.xx from CD-ROM.Com ftp servers.

bakc then i worked for a retail store that i had the owner start carring the CD kits and I have no idea how many folks i showed Linux to back then....

while working for an ISP around 1998'ish I setup and helped maintain serveral servers including at least 3 Linux boxes and 2 Sun boxes.

we ran on one small cheap one a Linux Quake Server, others ran Sendmail and Apache.

at that time I wrote that ISP's first online signup system as Perl/CGI on the server.

I used Linux later at another job to build a multi-ethernet-card firewall router box to provide 3 internal networks with different rules on each to secure the office from the demo net and from the developer net.

in the last 4 years less Linux just due to what the jobs have asekd me to do, not due to any dislike of the OS.

SO I guess that makes me a MS fanboy Eh? Smiley

NOT!

AndyC

I've usually got a PuTTY window or two open onto some Linux servers, does that count?

littleguru
<3 Seattle

I used Linux machines quite often at university (through all the years as student) and in the lab during my work at my master thesis (until like 2 months ago). I also did a lot of programming course in Linux/Unix environments for different kind of assignments. It was fun! Smiley

ZippyV
Fired Up

I'm using Ubuntu on my home pc almost daily. When I have a question about how things are done in development I ask them on Launchpad, when I find bugs I report them on Launchpad and I may sign up to be a translator because I'm still seeing English text in the dutch version.

While I'm talking about Ubuntu here is my opinion about it:

Applications are out of date and don't get updated until the next upgrade of Ubuntu is available (Transmission for example)
Firefox is just as slow to startup: Firefox: 11 seconds, Opera: 5 seconds.
Still not fully translated
Too difficult to install an application from a new repository.
Still ugly theme and backgrounds

wkempf

I used it daily for quite a few years, running my own web and mail servers and doing cross platform development. I've used RedHat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Suse and Ubuntu. Got tired of the constant need to keep things running by tweaking after every update, the attitude of the Linux community and no longer having the need to do cross platform development means I've not installed a distribution in a couple of years for more than checking out the current state of the distros.

I'm most definitely not anti-Linux. I have a lot of bad to say about the Linux communities, that are anti-social, unhelpful and full of folks exactly like our Ubuntu. I also have no tolerance for the "free software" movement, that's as dictatorial and draconian as the commercial entities they rail against. As for the OS itself, it's often more complicated than it should be, but I like the power and flexibility one is afforded by it.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to wkempf

#Jun 22nd @ 8:00 AM

Every now and then I try the flavor of the day, but my Unix days finished sometimes in 1998, after a 10 years tenure with Apollo Domain, HP-UX and Solaris.

I think I miss the point of Linux today...

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Used it every day at my previous job.. Both on one of the development machines and for a webserver. Never use it anymore now though since everything here is IIS.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

My Router and Network Server / Storage is Linux. I also have a virtual machine or two that are Linux servers for testing bits and pieces.

This client is Windows and I have a Mac that I rarely use to test stuff.

Erisan

I'm using Linux as a desktop and development OS/environment at home (Fedora 11/Rawhide) and at work (Debian and Fedora with KVM). Currently all my embedded devices runs Linux (lots of ARM devices and some of SH4 and Blackfin devices). Well, many of those are just developement boards but still ...

Of course I find Linux really interesting from a learning perspective. There's tons of books, documents and source code where to learn from. Of course mailing lists, IRC and VOIP are very helpful also. Personally I found FOSS community very pleasant to work with.

My opinion about Windows? I like it and I think it's a nice environment for a entertainment like games.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

I have Suse in a VM for testing federation stuff.

But my router runs BSD! Hurrah Smiley

Ubuntu

In reply to AndyC

#Jun 22nd @ 7:24 AM

I've usually got a PuTTY window or two open onto some Linux servers, does that count?

It counts as long as you are using PuTTY and not the Windows built-in telnet Wink

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

In reply to Ubuntu

#Jun 22nd @ 9:26 AM

Windows built-in telnet is pretty useless as I use SSH exclusively. It's also not installed by default as of Vista.

harumscarum
out of memory

I installed redhat a few years ago and was pretty much, meh. At work (consultant) the only time I ever see linux is on a server farm. I don't dislike/hate linux its just I need to maintain and progress my skills in areas that will actually get me paid. I am sure that if I worked with enteprise software that ran on linux my experience would be flipped.

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In reply to harumscarum

#Jun 22nd @ 9:50 AM

I use Linux daily at work, connecting to our Linux-based dev boxes via SSH.

My computer's a Mac, though. It actually works better than the setup I'd be using if I were on Windows; X11 on Mac performs much better than X11 on Windows (via Cygwin)-- makes a difference when you've got multiple XTerms and at least one instance of a text editor open from the remote machine at any given point in the day.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

My CS dept's labs are mostly Linux boxes (CentOS, updated regularly) although they do have a lab full of Windows machines.

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

I have a virtual Ubuntu Server 9.04 running on my box at home that I occasionally SSH into from my laptop...

...but honestly? I set it up only to play with, and I find myself not actually doing anything with it. There's nothing I need to do that I can't do on my host Server 2008 box.

contextfree

I ran Linux (Debian, later Ubuntu) almost exclusively on my home desktops and laptops for seven-odd years, booting into Windows only very rarely to try the odd game etc. Lately I've mostly been using Windows although I've started booting into Ubuntu 9.04 to run PureData (an audio synthesis tool/language) because I can't get decent latency on Vista. Technically, I have mixed feelings about both systems and it would be hard to get me to pick one. I'm definitely a fan of the concept of open source/free software, but I don't think it's a criterion that trumps all others when assessing worth.

MasterPie
I'm white because I smelt an onion

In college, I ssh into my linux account where I store docs to be accessed anywhere on campus as well as off.

I use an OS X machine at work (had the option for a pc with XP but decided to force myself to use another OS) and ssh into a linux cluster. I haven't really felt the need to boot in to Linux, though.

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

In reply to MasterPie

#Jun 22nd @ 11:55 AM

My websites run on SUSE, Wordpress and Fantastico

My Oracle databases run on Red Hat but I use OEM to manage it, not OS tools.

I did run Ubuntu at home and hated it !!! ... I mean 'hate' is a strong word and I hated it. It started off with the Brown and Orange colour scheme, I give it 6 months, a fare go in anyones book. When I formatted it I enjoyed doing that very much! Face it Linux crowd the UI has someways to go!

Ubuntu

In reply to Sabot

#Jun 22nd @ 12:59 PM

Don't get me wrong - I'm not here to start a flame war or pretending that there is something wrong with people who gave Linux a shot and didn't like it. I just have a couple of questions and suggestions:

- which version was that (of the distro)?

- remember the themes back in Win98 - well in Gnome themes change the appearance of your UI a lot more than Windows themes. And you can always switch to KDE or some other desktop shell if funky looks are what you are after (and you can still run your KDE and Gnome software under a non-standard desktop shell)

- did you use Compiz? (I'm not a fan of the visual effects but many people are)

- what did you think of the user settings tools compared to the control panel in Windows?

- what Windows software did you miss the most?

bureX
Always a step ahead in stupidity.

Maintaining two CentOS servers and "using" Linux Mint on my notebook as a secondary OS (very, veeeery rarely though, since I installed it mostly because of the MadWiFi drivers for WiFi network analysis and probing).

Window manager of choice? Gnome or FluxBox.

Compiz? Sure, why not, but only limited to basic minmize effects + expose. Anything else is "cool" only for the first 15 seconds.

Why I rarely use it? The primary reason is the presence of s**tloads of driver problems - can't resume after stand by, sound driver sucks - I can barely hear anything at 90% volume, but 95% rocks my socks off from all the loudness, installing wireless drivers is a pain in the neck, shortened battery life, etc. There are other things that I hate about it, but still, LinuxMint is the best distro out there for the average Joe, since it actually takes a shot at depressing the dreaded console back behind the scenes, and succeeds in doing so in some parts of the OS. Would recommend.

May28th2018
May 28th, 2018

An OS is just a tool. It doesn't matter what you use as long as you are able to accomplish whatever it is you want to do. Whether it's free software, pirated software, or software you paid for, in the end it doesn't matter. It's not your job to be good, it's the manufacturer's job to make money. Don't forget that. You should use whatever's right for you regardless of ethics, or branding.