What Linux distro do you use ?

And what distros have you tried . I like to start one of these ever now and again more for the Linux users , but also for any one that wants to get in to the Linux world . I use Mint rite now . I have tried Kali , Ubuntu , Knoppix , Fedora , Ubuntstudio , and many I have forgotten over the years . The nice thing about distros like Mint/Ubuntu is you can add a whole bunch of soft ware after you set it up , your not stuck with what comes bundled with the distro .

DistroWatch.com: Linux Mint

DistroWatch.com: Kali Linux
DistroWatch.com: Ubuntu
DistroWatch.com: Ubuntu Studio

 

I've used Ubuntu and Kubuntu, only because the feds and everybody else were fighting over what I wrote and who got to put spyware on my computer. When Steam came out with the newest updates for Wine that allow countless games to made compatible, Ubuntu's distro threatened to stop updating everything. Screw Linux programmers, all they care about is saying fuck you to Microsoft on their little laptops they use for work, and the crappiest outdated desktops imaginable, while Microsoft, Valve, and other companies feed them cash to encourage them to take their work in the direction they can exploit the most.

Just like the great Googlie Mooglies who left Google in a huff after it became painfully obvious Google had been working for the Pentagon all along. Linux is for those who can't afford better, or prefer to pull the wool over their eyes and pretend they are saving the world.

 

Red hat at work, ubuntu at home.

One of my personal laptops has windows 10 professional, and our desktop has Windows 10 home. I think it's good to have the option of a free OS for those who can't afford windows, or who feel there are better things to spend their money on. I use windows for most things outside work, half and half windows/linux at work (don't use gui for linux at work). I can't say that I prefer one over the other 100%, base on at-home use.

 

How many Linux user don't have a computer with Windows on it?

 

I'd say a small percentage.

 

I'll bet you anything, if Linux didn't exist, we'd have a more reliable alternative to Windows that costs $10.00

 

Had to double check this thread wasnt started 10 years ago

 

As I remember I did start a post like this one 10 years ago or around then . It may of been on the now closed Pavlina forum . I dont have windows running on any thing I have at the minute , but some soft ware will only run on windows, and Linux does not have the best games . I have tried W10 but dont care for it I like w7 better . If any one that has never used Linux , but wants to see how it works most distros will boot and run from the usb drive . Mint , Ubuntu , Kali , Knoppix , and many others will .

 

Linux was invented so mainframe computer programmers could take their work home with them. Its good for business applications, rendering, and any number of things that require more horsepower than usual, but never really gained a foothold in consumer markets for obvious reasons. The next computers coming on the market over the next few years, including laptops, will be capable of leveraging more of its horsepower using a distributing computing architecture, and they are already starting to do so. For example, real time ray tracing, image scaling, and AI applications are often merely modified versions of existing open source Linux applications that have already been extensively developed in the public domain. Companies like Microsoft will use AI to manipulate such Linux programs like a piano virtuoso, and charge extra according to how good the AI happens to be.

Keep programming to save the world people, because what Microsoft doesn't know is their own work is about to take on a life of its own.

 

Linux branched off the Unix system . If any one wants the full story , its on the net .Most of the distros are free to use and free to recode , if one has the skills . Distros such as red hat do charge , but its still cheep .
Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia
DistroWatch.com: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

 

It will be another ten years before Linux adopts the new distributed computing architecture that Intel and AMD are putting on the market. Forget about x86, its about to become all but history.

 

Let me get this straight

You start a thread asking what distro everyone uses, then a couple posts later tell us most distros are free.

In what universe would someone already using a distro not know that?

 

This post is for veteran Linux users and others that have never used the system .

 

So, who decides who is a veteran?

 

Any one that has used 1 more distros of Linux . I am sure there are people out that have only heard of windows and think thats all there is . People that dont mind giving their money to Bill Gates . I hope some one that has never used Linux makes a comment on this post like . I am not that fond of windows or Bill Gates,give me some info on setting up a Linux system .

 

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Donald Duck, take your pick. By who you hate, by this are you truly known. Personally, I hate them all, and prefer to make a much more direct attack on the corrupt system that promotes scum to the top.

 

Personaly I have no problem with Donald Duck , or Bugs Bunny . As I understand the story behind Gates and windows . Many years ago the people at IBM wanted to use cp/m for their computers but the guy that had wrote the code would not sell it to IBM . So they went to Gates and asked him for some thing that ran like cp/m but had a different code . He wrote dos and that evolved in to windows .
CP/M - Wikipedia

 

I drive a Ford, also got a Toyota 4X4.

 

The story behind Gates is the US has legalized oligopolies and our entire country now walks a razor's edge between monopolies and free markets, just as our government now walks the razor's edge between total fascism and the lynch mob.

 

Oh my.
It appears I may not use a Linux.