Ask HN: What Linux distro do you use for work, and why?

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Post by ethyl66 » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 1:18 AM UTC

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Post by veganarchocap » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 1:20 AM UTC

Elementary OS, just because it's Debian/Ubuntu based so it's nice and easy to use, but it's also fairly light-weight. I think because it's quite a nice looking distro as well, it just makes work a bit more of a pleasure. I feel sorry for the others still using Windows 7!

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Post by jameshk » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 1:49 AM UTC

Elementary OS is great! I use it on all of my machines, it's very polished!

Re: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you use for work, and why?

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Post by clasense4 » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 1:50 AM UTC

I work on my dev server, CentOS 6.5. Last year I choose Ubuntu 10.04 on my old laptop (Intel Dualcore), but now I still can't decide best linux distro for my laptop, last time I try L/X/K/Ubuntu 13.04, but it make my laptop battery drain faster and really hot (AMD quadcore) and some of those distro can't work properly like has buggy in graphics, I already install the driver too.

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Post by jonalmeida » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 1:52 AM UTC

jameshk wrote: post #3

Elementary OS is great! I use it on all of my machines, it's very polished!

Elementary here as well! I just wish they updated a bit faster, I need a newer version of glibc and I can only get it from Ubuntu 13.10.

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Post by lugg » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 2:10 AM UTC

crunchbang.org, simply because it gets out of the way while I work. I also use an arch/ob setup on my main laptop but that requires a fair amount of upkeep / fiddling and such isn't very suitable as a work horse.

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Post by quasimo » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 2:15 AM UTC

There is a Chinese distro : http://www.linuxdeepin.com/index.en.html not bad.

Re: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you use for work, and why?

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Post by dman » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 2:18 AM UTC

debian

a) It just keeps on working.

b) They are conservative with new technology. This means that by the time things hit debian theyre well thought through.

c) The community behind debian is principled.

d) The debian package repository is very exhaustive.

e) They offer a small net install iso which is ~180 megabytes. This makes a fantastic foundation for a minimalistic linux install with a tiling manager (without pulling in monstrosities like libre office).

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Post by dutchrapley » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 2:33 AM UTC

Wow, isn't this timely? I've been running Xubuntu. I've been feeling like it's a little overkill. It may be time to give Crunchbang a try.

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Post by dshep » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 2:34 AM UTC

dman wrote: post #8

debian a) It just keeps on working. b) They are conservative with new technology. This means that by the time things hit debian theyre well thought through. c) The community behind debian is principled. d) The debian package repository is very exhaustive. e) They offer a small net install iso which is ~180 megabytes. This makes a fantastic foundation for a minimalistic linux install with a tiling manager (without pul…

debian here too for most of these reasons