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

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

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Post by Tarential »

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).

Actually, for me it was the other way around. It was only natural to use Debian for my servers when I used it already at home :)

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

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Post by jmhain »

saosebastiao wrote: post #32

Unfortunately, the distro whose philosophy I like the most has a package manager that I like the least. Therefore, instead of Arch, I use Ubuntu.

I know pacman doesn't do everything that apt/dpkg does, but for a personal machine I highly prefer it to any other. What exactly don't you like about it?

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

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Post by trigoman »

ninguem2 wrote: post #44
trigoman wrote: post #23

Does 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.

Cinnamon looks legit! I'll give that a shot. Thanks :D

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

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Post by kps »

Kubuntu at work — Ubuntu because it's the done thing where I am, and K- because it's the only ‘desktop’ I'm aware of that lets me avoid the Windows practice of overloading the Control key for menu shortcuts and stealing it from ASCII and editing.

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

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Post by jmhain »

scapa wrote: post #27

I use kubuntu as I cannot stand unity. Tools like kjots and kate are my daily use tools which run really fast and provides no non-sense UI.

When I see comments like these, I feel like there must be two different KDEs. Every time I've tried to use it, I've had the exact opposite experience: it runs really slow and provides a complete nonsense UI.

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

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Post by Cakez0r »

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).

Yes. CentOS minimal for servers, Fedora for desktop
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