Linux: Which distro do you run and why?

[Carrtman]

It's an amazing Distro for sure and I would say probably the most customizable of them all but personally I wanted something to resemble W7 a bit more plus all the customization and abilitiy power of the terminal so I've went for Mint.

But you are right ArchLinux is a great distro too.

 

[gigglegeeks]

Hi, if you come from Windows, just small tips when organizing windows on Linux, try to learn organize your applications' windows in workspace (virtual desktop). That's one thing from Linux desktop that I cannot get from Windows and it is really a time-saver.

 

[MgDivenire]

OpenSuse 13 It's the fasteres linux distro i ever had.

 

[Julien Bertozzi]

Crunchbang, fast and beautiful

 

[colyn1353]

Mint 17 KDE and SolydK are my 2 distros. Mint on my desktop and SolydK on my Laptop..

 

[EOA DEV]

Ubuntu, because it's nice and user friendly and backtrack(kali now) for all the other stuff

 

[ShanusONealius]

On my desktop machines, I've been running Linux and Linux alone for a while now. Arch is my favorite distro, but I also run Debian. Of all the distros I've tried out, Debian uses the least RAM at idle. I like to keep things minimal, and I can have myself up and idling in the x server/desktop at 35 MB. I'm honestly a little obsessed with minimizing memory usage. If it weren't for that, I'd probably just be running Arch alone. It uses a little more, but it's also easier to set up just how I want it, and it doesn't try to make decisions for me like Debian often will. And thus, it's easier to keep bloat-free. On Arch, I also use busybox init.

 

[raydekk]

LUbuntu - it's a lightweight version - I use it at work inside VMWare with an Internet USB Stick - only to browse the Internet, because the company blocks facebook, yahoo mail, google mail, and so on

 

[lamike]

Linux mint 16 & 17 Cinnamon if you are into coding and mod. Much easier to navigated and develop for newbies plus android runs on the linux kernal. Was a windoze fan until I got into android.

 

[chromaticity]

I'm currently running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and using the GNOME shell, I just really love that interface and prefer it over the normal one. It's so much faster than Windows and all that bloatware, and I believe Linux has a lot less viruses roaming around than Windows.

 

[iman89]

I started with Ubuntu probably like two weeks ago (my first distro) mainly because for some reason I didn't know that my CD drive wasn't working, and somehow it allowed me to install it (big mystery). I loved it because my computer started running faster immediately. I wasn't using as much CPU and Memory by doing normal things on my 4 year old laptop. I didn't like the way it was set up though. I wasn't able to find things easily, and was a little bit harder for me to get accustomed to since I was still used to how Windows 7 was set-up.

So I changed to Cinnamon Mint. I love it. I'll probably stay here for a long time. It runs faster than Ubuntu, the layout is familiar to me, and now I don't have to worry about running a whole mess of security programs in the background eating my CPU and Memory up. My laptop is only Dual core i3, and has 4GB of Memory, so it's not the quickest out there. But even if I got a quicker computer, which I will eventually for music production, I will stay with Linux. Love it.

I used Photoshop very mildly on my Windows OS, and Ableton Live (music production program) mainly. Gimp (which is not a photoshop replacement for professionals) replaced photoshop for me. It has all the functions I need that I used on Photoshop, which was mainly cropping, and adding backgrounds ect. Nothing too technical.

Ableton Live doesn't work with Linux either. But I found an alternative that works really really good, and has a lot of the same functionalities than Ableton Live. It's called BitWig Studio. It's pretty new, but its a direct competition with Ableton Live, and it runs on Linux. It saved the day, because I would of probably had to run Ableton Live on Wine, which idk if it works on it, since I haven't tried.

So far, so good. Not looking back to Windows anymore. Love Linux, and have become a Linux fan boy. I highly recommend it, that I even installed it on my brothers computer since he got a mean virus on his Windows OS. He's not very techy with computers, and hasn't really asked me any questions on how to use it. It's pretty straight forward, and I can tell he is satisfied with it. Plus that means I don't have to fix his computer anymore with ugly viruses. I tried believe me, but for some reason it didn't fix it.

Those who are satisfied with Windows, that's cool, but as for me Linux is great. I have the same functionality as I did on my Windows machine, and I feel like it has opened my eyes to a whole other flood of open sourced programs out there. There is definately alternatves to some window programs. Most people aren't photoshop profressionals, or Ableton Live users, although BitWig runs the same as Ableton Live to me. It's really high end stuff.

 

[pinnowgm]

Ubuntu 10.10 because of it's the only Linux distro i am familiar with.

 

[LlamaGS]

Mint 17. Why? It functions.

 

[IdeaSolutions Srl]

CentOS for servers, stable and never had problems

 

[Blackjack102]

ubuntu lastest version.

At work, we had one crap computer, and the hard drive crashed. I found old hard drive from a dead computer and replaced the dead hard drive. I decided to install Ubuntu even all employees have no idea to use linux. I knew that linux will run on crap computer without worry about resource system. So, I installed ubuntu and set up chrome browser, so everyone will be familiar with the browser. After few weeks, everyone uses it everyday!

I like to use ubuntu because it is free, simple and easy to install.

 

[Ed Briggs]

I don't like upgrade every 6 months like Ubuntu. I want my apps new and fresh.

Who says you have to upgrade every 6 months? Ever hear of a PPA? You can run the LTS of Ubuntu and have the latest apps. The best of both. (long term support/stability/latest apps)

But I'm not putting down Arch or any other distro. They're all good, depending what you want. No distro wars, please.

 

[davidofmidnight]

The last Linux distro I used was Sabayon - a rolling-release system. I liked having up-to-date software (without the PPAs), but I found I ended up toying with the system more than actually being productive with it.

I've been toying with the idea of going back to Linux, but my Toshiba laptop that I have now seems to have the most Linux/opensource unfriendly hardware they could find to put on it, so I might wait until (or if) I build my own. Then, who knows what system I'll have.

 

[Giacomo BigAndFish]

debian all the time, for many reasons.
1: it is the more safe distribution
2: i like the debian's system of the packages. I mean the 3 versions (unstable, testing , stable)
3: the names of the distribution come from a cartoon movie ...

p.s. most of all linux's distribution (ubuntu for ex) are based on debian.

 

[soundmaven]

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

 

[Dngrsone]

The last Linux distro I used was Sabayon - a rolling-release system. I liked having up-to-date software (without the PPAs), but I found I ended up toying with the system more than actually being productive with it.

I've been toying with the idea of going back to Linux, but my Toshiba laptop that I have now seems to have the most Linux/opensource unfriendly hardware they could find to put on it, so I might wait until (or if) I build my own. Then, who knows what system I'll have.

I installed Mint on my Toshiba laptop. The hard part was getting dual-boot to work with UEFI Secure Boot enabled. Also, I had to go with a different kernel so that WiFi would work right.

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