Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

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Post by w1ntermute » Sat, May 18, 2013, 10:51 PM UTC

Following up on the DE/WM poll[0], what distro are you using at the moment on your daily driver?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730142

Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

#2

Post by nathanpc » Sat, May 18, 2013, 11:21 PM UTC

This will be an interesting poll. I'm curious to know which distros the Hacker News Linux community use.

Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

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Post by krapp » Sat, May 18, 2013, 11:25 PM UTC

Ubuntu and Crunchbang

Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

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Post by gee_totes » Sat, May 18, 2013, 11:27 PM UTC

Is anyone's choice of distro influenced by the type of servers they find themselves working on?

For example, I find myself doing alot of work on REHL systems in the cloud, and thusly run Fedora (so I don't have to figure out where config files, etc. are kept in other distros).

Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

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Post by bsilvereagle » Sat, May 18, 2013, 11:29 PM UTC

Bedrock

Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

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Post by lukegb » Sat, May 18, 2013, 11:31 PM UTC

I use a combination of Arch on my main PC, and a combination of ChromeOS/Ubuntu-through-crouton on my Chromebook (it's the Samsung 5 550, not the Pixel, sadly)

Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

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Post by luisivan » Sat, May 18, 2013, 11:31 PM UTC

I use Asturix 4 in production environments and ElementaryOS for basic desktop use

Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

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Post by quanticle » Sat, May 18, 2013, 11:33 PM UTC

Do VMs count? My desktop is running Ubuntu natively, but I do a lot of my development on RHEL5 and RHEL6 VMs.

Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

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Post by dkuntz2 » Sat, May 18, 2013, 11:35 PM UTC

gee_totes wrote: post #4

Is anyone's choice of distro influenced by the type of servers they find themselves working on? For example, I find myself doing alot of work on REHL systems in the cloud, and thusly run Fedora (so I don't have to figure out where config files, etc. are kept in other distros).

Not really. I'm running Ubuntu on my server, but vastly prefer Arch.

Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?

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Post by tikhonj » Sat, May 18, 2013, 11:37 PM UTC

I'm currently running Fedora, but I'm really tempted to switch over to Arch or maybe even NixOS.

The latest version of Fedora was a bit of a mess compared to previous versions, including things like bugs with waking up from sleep. Moreover, I'm finding the release schedule a bit slow. Also, I've heard good things about Arch and NixOS in terms of Haskell support.