Any Linux/UNIX Users Here?

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Started on FreeBSD in 2000, sharpened up on Sun OS 5 and eventually distro hopped to Debian Sid after 15 years on Arch as a current top 40 contributor to the Arch Wiki. Focus over the years has revolved around security, privacy and minimalism :beer:

I used to be a huge Windows fan. Then came Vista. And later Windows 7 - which many were relieved to accept but I was not. It took a lot of pain but I went to PC-BSD and never looked back.
Now I’m on gentoo.

Have been using Linux for about 10 years now - Debian, Ubuntu, lately Raspbian. I like Linux because it gives you more control over your computer. But it could also mean more headaches in some areas. Peripherals aren’t always compatible, drivers not always existent.
I use MacOS and Linux across my machines, also have several Raspberry Pis.

Long time Solaris and Linux user. Currently only on Raspberry Pi 400, and only to do support for a CMS I wrote. Also nice for surfing the net.

I have trouble finding a laptop that works well under Linux, with comprehensive driver support and doesn’t drain battery like a FET direct-drive flashlight.

I used Manjaro for 2 years and I loved it! Now I need windows for a lot of programs that I run, however is still use Debian in windows subsystem for linux. I also use Raspberry pi os (previously known as Raspbian) on my Raspberry pi’s.

Once Microsoft dropped support for Windows 7, I switched most of my machines over to Linux Mint. I upgraded my newest laptop to Windows 10 in case the situation should arise when I absolutely need Windows. Other than that, I’m a staunch Linux convert.

I use Linux every day. On my android phone.
For rest of tasks pretty unusable.
Mike

Gentoo is rice :smiley:

> proud Kubuntu user < 8) 8) :sunglasses:

KDE > all, anything else is for failures :disguised_face:

Relative Linux noob here. I came of age with DOS & Windows 3.1.

I tinkered with openSUSE for years on an old AMD K6-III 400/768MB AT box I pieced together from discards 'till a few years ago. It ran fine, though a little slow, and video was horrible A learning tool/crash dummy/sexy-places-I-shouldn't-go-on-the-interwebs device. It was replaced with far more powerful PC's that were either gifted to me or I built from discards not long ago. Removable HDD bays allows me to tinker easily with different distros while keeping a couple of secure 'production' distros available. Currently running Linux Lite for online shopping and another Linux Lite drive for the previously mentioned sexy-site cruising. Yet another drive running Anti-X for mission critical only, privacy-type stuff such as online banking, online insurance tasks & online medical. I'd tried just running a live CD session of Anti-X or Knoppix for banking, but it was too much of a hassle; slow to load, difficult to print from even if the PPD's were there..

The Linux command line confounds me often. Many times if I have to do something in a terminal window, I'll stumble around trying different line syntax and whatever until I either make it work or, more often, get frustrated. I'll then find the string needed via web search & just do a copy/paste into terminal. Case sensitive command line structure drives me nuts too.

I recommend Linux Lite to people who want to move from Windoz to Linux, as it presents a GUI format very familiar to users of M$ OS's right out of the box, and it's hardware demands are relatively minimal, so it'll run well on older 'puters.

An installation gotcha' I learned on Anit-X is, that during initial setup, if there's a floppy drive (A) in the machine, the GRUB installer points to drive A by default. It's not that obvious & easily overlooked. It took me more times than I care to admit after a fresh install failed initial boot to learn that. Once the change in the installer is made to point GRUB away from that default so that GRUB is installed on the HDD instead, smooth sailing.

slmjim

That’s why I chose the Pi. At least the OS works out of the box. Another solution is running it on a virtual machine.

Or WSL2 for better performance.

About 11 years of Linux here! Ubuntu 10.04 was the first, preinstalled in recycled machine. Didn´t have WinXP cd right away, so i desided to use the Ubuntu until then… Liked it so much that next step was dual install, XP for gaming.

Now i have U20.04/Mate on my desktop (replaced Fedora/Gnome) and Linux Lites on my Thinkpads (x220, x230 and L520). The L520 also has W10 on another HDD, because i had to see if could be done. :laughing:

I setup Arch on an old HP laptop that needed a little love in 2018, it was pretty fun to build up the OS from scratch and define the inner workings of it.

Then decided to check out the more ready to go out of box Manjaro, I love it!

I tend to make my own problems in Arch linux, which is both frustrating at times and kinda fun (gives me an excuse to tinker with things).

Most of my laptops are at least 5yrs old and they’ve all been given to me by way of family and friends who were upgrading.

Linux user for about ten years on desktop computers and much longer for servers. Most of my machines run Arch Linux, no Windows at all. At work also exclusively Linux (development of self driving cars). Sometimes things are harder to do on Linux than on Windows, but mostly it is the other way around.

(Also heavy vim user. Usually I have just a web browser and several dozens of terminals open.)

Linux user since 2005, started with Mandrake, then Slackware, then Arch, now Debian for the last 5 years at least, desktop & home servers.

Also running Debian on my work laptop, dealing with windows machines mostly :confounded:

Long time Mac user here. Not comfortable with the direction Apple is going these days. If they go to signing the MacOS like iOS will likely move to some flavor of Linux — likely Mint.

Perhaps 10 years ago or something like that I put Ubuntu on a laptop for my wife who’s Vista install was so messed up it was unusable. I have always hated windows and was not up to supporting it. She used Ubuntu for a couple of years until she got a new laptop. Now she has windows 10 and a friend to help her support it. (I did have to put a printer driver on it today but mostly not my problem;-)

Have an early 2011 MacBook Pro that I have been running Mint on for a couple of years now. Just updated it to 20.1 and I am very impressed. So far everything just works and it is very responsive. Battery life is even greatly improved although not quite to the level of the MacOS. Real solid distro from my perspective. Haven’t used it all that much but I can VNC in to anything I need to run. Browsing and email are excellent. Bluetooth works well. Easy to navigate the system. File sharing is painless etc. If not for the essential proprietary Mac database that I make my living with I would be ready to switch now.

Very solid system and for me it is much easier and more productive to work with than Windows 10. Amazed at how close it has come to the Mac OS. Quite easy for me to get around with it. Some would compare it to XP. Perhaps so but more refined, better organized, and really not difficult for a mac person to understand.

When I was in college, I had to give a report on some of the different flavors of Linux, though I've never used Linux.

I'm used to Windows so I'll probably just stick with that.

I believe Mr. Admin is a big Linux fan.

I run Mint Cinnamon and Xfce as VM’s on my main computer and also have a dual boot Win10/Mint Cinnamon on my spare machine.

A long time ago I used to be a sysadmin on SunOS, HP-UX, RedHat, and mainly Debian.

More recently I used Raspbian and even TOR for a few years, but then I bought a nice Dell with preinstalled Ubuntu and am trying to be just a normal user. I sudo su once a month, if that.