No.547895
Which distro do you use and why?
DE/WM?
No.547903
Windows, the only distro that allows me to play all the games I want.
No.547931
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I use fedora on my laptop. I just wanted my laptop set up fast. I also like being up to date like rolling release distros.
My DE is Gnome. It is pretty polished nowadays.
No.547954
Xubuntu because it just werks, except when it doesn't. I tend to oscillate between LXDE and Xfce depending on what's going on.
No.547958
Arch with i3
Good amount of software in the default repos, and Arch stays pretty well up to date as far as software, and has good documentation. i3 is pretty minimalist while still having all the features you would want out of a tiling wm such as good multiple monitor support by default.
No.547963
>Gentoo on desktop
>Arch on thinkpad
>Debian on server
No.547971
>>547931
My nigga. I got sick of running arch/gentoo minimalistic distros and ricing out bspwm, terminal etc. I installed fedora with gnome on my laptop and desktop a few days ago, it took a little bit of adjusting but I'm happy where I am now.
No.547993
>>547895
Trisquel on a old lga775 because it's libre and I was in a hurry at the time looking to migrate on guix now.
No.547999
I use Arch with Budgie Desktop on my laptop because AUR goes well with my laziness.
No.548003
Void because no lennartd
fvwm because I can do anything I want with it
No.548005
>all these arch babies
not surprised.
No.548009
Parabola because its free
No.548020
Gentoo, Debian, Salix, and Void
no systemdicks
No.548029
Arch with AwesomeWM because I love the AUR.
No.548041
openSUSE
It's less autistic than Arch while still retaining advanced features and tons of software because OBS.
No.548044
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Arch Linux
AwesomeWM
Arch because I find it the easiest to use, Awesome because I have gotten so used it and can easily configure it how I like it.
No.548058
I use Gentoo, Arch, OpenSUSE because they have Grsec packages and non-Gnome focus.
No.548060
>>547895
Gentoo. Because it's flexible/customizable and because I needed custom kernel anyway and Gentoo community was more helpful in this regard than probably any other would be.
No.548061
Arch on my laptop, desktop and server. It's simple and works, no real point in switching to anything else.
No.548065
No.548072
>>548065
You're just mad cause you can't play games on Loonix.
No.548073
Mint, because I'm a former winfag and I don't like to think. I'd use Tails but I don't know how to set up a proxy that isn't banned by Quakenet IRC.
No.548087
I'm testing out some distros in virtual box. Planning to switch to Linux soon. Ubuntu was the easiest so far but I don't really like Unity. I downloaded the Arch iso but I couldn't even get debian set up properly so I won't even bother with it. I'll do Xubuntu or Fedora next. I've tried Mint in the past, but I've been scared off by the recent hack. Any recommendations?
No.548089
I'm testing out some distros in virtual box. Planning to switch to Linux soon. Ubuntu was the easiest so far but I don't really like Unity. I downloaded the Arch iso but I couldn't even get debian set up properly so I won't even bother with it. I'll do Xubuntu or Fedora next. I've tried Mint in the past, but I've been scared off by the recent hack. Any recommendations?
No.548090
>>548087
try out a live iso
No.548093
Void/i3. I'm considering shit-canning the Void partition on my laptop because I want Weston/sway and I want it now, and the release candidate doesn't build correctly with Void's bleeding edge repo. Also it's been at least a year and ibus-anthy STILL doesn't work.
No.548095
No.548096
>>548090
Good idea. I wanted to dual-boot, but my disk encryption software messes that up.
No.548099
>>548087
Mint's hack was a small incident and handled very well. It only affected the direct download of one installation image, and not any systems that already existed. It's safe to try.
No.548104
Antergos on desktop and laptop, DE on desktop is Gnome, Xfce on laptop. It just werks, I'm still a noob, and I wanted something that was a rolling release.
No.548107
Debian on both my laptop and desktop.
When I get a server I'll likely use Debian for that as well.
I'd switch to something else but I understand Debian best, so if something goes wrong I'll know how to fix it. I try to only use free software on everything I use, aside from the obvious and general reasons you'd want to use free software, I've been learning C (later C++) so it's nice to be able to see how some of the kinds of software I'd like to make are written.
No.548116
arch / gnome3
Trying out i3 on my youtube machine, honestly getting sick of gnomes shit. It's perfect once you have the right plugins, but then it updates and they all need to be reinstalled.
No.548134
Slackware -current with dwm as my WM
Because I like some of the humor they put in, no puttering, and SlackBuilds are pretty neat once you get pass the dependency resolution and the somewhat older packages. Also stable as heck.
No.548138
Slackware.
The only Linux that doesn't make me want to vomit.
No.548139
Fedora + xfce
It's popular, simple to use, and runs alright on my shitty machine. I used to use Debian, but got tired of the slow update cycle and political bullshit.
No.548140
openbsd on file server due to ancient hardware. gentoo on laptops/desktops/router/tablets/everythingelse
>grsecurity
>no systemdick
>compiling isn't painful thanks to distcc
>deploying is incredibly quick
>you get to live the meme
No.548167
Fedora with mate
I wanted something that wasn't Debian based
No.548175
No.548176
>>548175
What do you like about it? I'm torn between Void, Parabola, and Gentoo.
No.548182
>>548176
- No systemd/Runit as a init
- Bleeding edge software
- Easy to create and maintain your own package repo
- Software hardened by default (check configuration of xbps)
No.548191
On my work PC I installed openSUSE, pretty happy with it. Rock solid and does what I need.
On my laptop I currently run Xubuntu. Thinking of switching to simply Debian while going through some of Udemy Linux courses I torrented since most of them use Debian as an example. I just don't like all the shit that it installs by default. Fedora + Xfce looks tempting too.
Eventually will switch to Arch or Gentoo once I upgrade my autism level.
No.548205
>>547971
ricing is a meme. Sorry you've fallen for it.
No.548206
>>548072
>reading this while playing GTA V on WINE.
No.548222
No.548236
>>548232
Fedora actually had more maintenance than Arch on my desktop.
I use CentOS on the server because the latest Debian was too buggy for me, even Arch with latest kernel, no LTS kernel, was easier to configure and more 'stable' with services than Debian 8 in my experience. Probably because of their half-assed 'interim' systemd implementation.
No.548252
Just installed Debian Jessie. I got tired of having to reinstall Fedora every 12 months.
No.548261
>>548206
>reading this while playing GTA V on WINE.
How's the performance?
No.548288
>>547895
home PC - I use it only for games so windows 7 + lubuntu on virtualbox if i need linux for something.
home laptop - ubuntu gnome and win 10 on dual boot, but i haven't used windows for long time and i'll get rid of it some day.
work laptop - Linux mint because it just works. ok. when I install nvidia drivers. x server won't start unless I configure xorg to use integrated card instead of geforce, but it's not a problem since I use it only for work.
No.548291
>>547895
Windows 10, because it is best OS that currently exists.
No.548292
What are the key differences between Gentoo and Void? Why should one choose one over the other? Pros? Cons?
No.548293
>>548232
>stop liking what i don't like
No.548310
No.548315
>>548087
> I downloaded the Arch iso but I couldn't even get debian set up properly so I won't even bother with it. I'll do Xubuntu or Fedora next.
Dude, Arch isn't nearly as scary as it looks. I couldn't set up Debian either, because their network driver was fucked up and I couldn't get the installation to connect to the internet, but Arch isn't hard to install as long as you follow the instructions. Even better, if you don't want to bother with installing Arch manually, there's Evo/lution that can do it for you.
No.548356
A couple of years ago I was figuring out linux and distrohopping until I landed in manjaro. It was exactly what I was looking for and I've been using it since.
No.548366
>>548310
windowmaker is lovely
No.548367
No.548368
>>547999
>>548029
>>548041
the AUR or OBS is a helper for when you need to compile software that for some reason is not in the repos. you should use it in some rare occasions, 99% of your software should go from repos. if the favourite part of a distro is AUR/OBS then you really have a problem.
>>548099
>handled very well
hello mint devs
No.548369
No.548374
>>548139
>>548167
>>548236
I've had the same experience. In my memory Debian was great and mighty many years ago, but I have tried the new releases and was not happy at all.
I also feel like both, RedHat/SuSE/Fedora (RPM) and Arch's package management is highly superior to deb/dpkg.
No.548385
Arch and XFCE because they comfy.
No.548388
Windows 7 right now. Have Debian installed unencrypted and have to encrypt it's partition but then it'll be good to go.
Had an archive drive failure but thankfully only a small loss of data due to redundant backups so I have been currently backing all my shit up again. It's going to take me a while but when I finally get that done I was thinking of starting the slow, gradual, move to Linux.
Not sure if I am going to use Windows in a VM with passthrough Windows 10 with no internet or dualboot Windows 7 until depreciated.
>>548368
To be fair to anon it really wasn't that big of a deal. I wouldn't use Mint if only for security reasons but as a starter distro it's really no worse than Debian The Windows 10 of the Linux world
No.548389
>>548388
>than Debian
>than Ubuntu*
Whoops
No.548392
Trisquel.
It respects muh 4 essential freedoms.