Started out on ubuntu around five or six years ago, then I switched to debian about 4 years ago. And now I've been running crunchbang waldorf on my laptop for about two years, mint on my desktop for one and angstrom on my openpandora and debian wheezy on my tablet for about six months to a year. So mainly debian based for my systems, but then again debian is easy to use, easy to configure and just fun to use.
Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
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#42I started out with Gentoo, maybe 10 years ago. It was the coolest thing, but later realized that I was spending a lot of time compiling everything and wanted these magical things called "binaries" instead. So I switched to Ubuntu - Warty Warthog! I loved it because it was a minimal distro that was very useful and fit on a single CD. (I neither had lots of internet nor CDs available to me at the time.) Also, I never k…
"I started out with Gentoo, maybe 10 years ago. It was the coolest thing, but later realized that I was spending a lot of time compiling everything and wanted these magical things called "binaries" instead." I'm using Gentoo and I don't really notice this, but that's probably because my needs are fairly minimal and I take the approach of "if it's working, don't change it". Unless I happen to upgrade to something that…
Ha. I felt like that's all I ever did was compile with Gentoo, and some how that was cool.
Now if Ubuntu would integrate systemd I'd stop considering fedora.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#43Is 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 for me. It actually keeps me on my toes a bit regarding differences in distros, especially since I have done well taking on project where server (mis)configuration was an issue as well other devs were struggling with.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#44Does anyone have a good alternative for Ubuntu's Unity. I like Ubuntu because of the community, but I just can't get over Unity. My normal keyboard shortcuts are all jacked up and it's just... impossible to deal with for me.
Use Cinnamon.
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#45I use CentOS a ton. Also whatever the amazon official AMIs are.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#46Fedora from f08 to f16, but switched to centos 6.4.
What it's like running CentOS on the desktop?
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#47Debian has been my home for 5+ years. It was the only distro I ever tried where the package manager didn't eventually (or immediately) fail on me and require me to fix either the package or my whole system manually.
I have tried my share of distros in the past [0], but haven't felt much need to go outside of Debian recently. Perhaps things have changed, but now I'm happy here :)
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#49Does anyone have a good alternative for Ubuntu's Unity. I like Ubuntu because of the community, but I just can't get over Unity. My normal keyboard shortcuts are all jacked up and it's just... impossible to deal with for me.
There is Xubuntu or Linux Mint (or of course tons of other Debian-based distros)
If you want to stick with Ubuntu and just remove unity, here are instructions for replacing it with Linux Mint's desktop interface (Cinnamon) and file manager (Nemo): http://askubuntu.com/questions/292394/how-to-completely-remo...
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#50Debian for me. Debian on everything.
I have a debian wheezy server running a bunch of disks with zfs (from an ubuntu zfs-on-linux PPA), a jessie/sid desktop that is just awesome, a NAS (Western Digital Sharespace) running debian I installed via debbootstrap and a kernel I hacked together for it. There's also a debian netbook which is mostly retired now, and I have ubuntu on my chromebook, mostly because I'm not sure there's a debian release for it yet.
--edit-- I also use ubuntu at work at the moment. Regardless of the platform I like the XFCE environment, and ubuntu has made that quite pretty lately. Thankfully with a bit of theme downloading through apt, XFCE on debian can be made to look the same.