Linux Distro/Flavor

[CNexus]

Just wanted to take a quick poll, of those of you that use Linux, what distro and/or flavor are you on?

I'll start:
Ubuntu 12.10 > Normal/Default Ubuntu, Debian

 

[bilgerryan]

I'm stuck with dual booting Windows 7 (my wife did it, don't ask me how) and if I could figure it out... I've been wanting to switch to Linux. I hate Windows.

 

[CNexus]

I'm stuck with dual booting Windows 7 (my wife did it, don't ask me how) and if I could figure it out... I've been wanting to switch to Linux. I hate Windows.

Yeah I'm dual booting too, but in my case I have to stick with Windows because I'm not the only user...
When I get my new laptop I'll go full Linux lol

But what distro are you on?

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[bilgerryan]

Yeah I'm dual booting too, but in my case I have to stick with Windows because I'm not the only user...
When I get my new laptop I'll go full Linux lol

But what distro are you on?

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No I'm stuck dual booting two versions of Win7

 

[CNexus]

No I'm stuck dual booting two versions of Win7

Ohh I thought you meant dual booting Windows and Linux...that sucks though
I'm about to install Linux after doing a fresh install of Windows! [dumb windows hard drive wouldn't let me shrink it]

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[strapped365]

I run Linux Mint 14 now,coming from peppermint 3. Next I'll try lubuntu. I like the light distros.

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[CNexus]

I run Linux Mint 14 now,coming from peppermint 3. Next I'll try lubuntu. I like the light distros.

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Whats mint like? Does it use Gnome as its desktop manager?
But I've heard that that ones pretty popular too so it must be nice lol

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[strapped365]

Whats mint like? Does it use Gnome as its file manager?
But I've heard that that ones pretty popular too so it must be nice lol

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To be honest I only installed it and adb, I haven't even got to mess with it. The newish android-tools-adb from software manager are slick it made Desktop my adb location so anything on my direct dektop is controllable with adb ( I think only tested adb devices ). Although I still have the actual sdk, I just wanted to try the software manager one.

I'm in the process now of just trying to get better and more fluent with terminal and Linux language. I was never really big on computers at all growing up but when I did use them it was always to do one task and that was on windows. So Linux really opened my eyes because if I don't need the computer to do much, why run all that bloat? I would rather install what I need vs uninstalling what I don't and risk breaking dependencies and OS.

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[BigSplit]

I use Ubuntu and have had it on a separate partition for probably 8ish years now(since second year of college). I sometimes bounce to another distro to try for a while, but always come back to Ubuntu because I am used to it.

I am really thinking about looking for another debian based distro(or ubuntu with a different desktop mananger) though because I kind of loath portions of Unity and the amazon integration. I don't mind having the side bar with app icons pinned to it, thats how I keep my win7 desktop setup. I absolutely hate just about everything else though.

For those that are comfortable with windows you may want to check out Zorin OS, its a ubuntu based distro that emulates the windows desktop manager.

 

[YoungCorruptionV2.0]

I can never get linux to install. I've tried many times and always hangs on a black screen that shows what's connected to the usb ports I hate Windows 7/8 they suck

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[gibbylinks]

I can never get linux to install. I've tried many times and always hangs on a black screen that shows what's connected to the usb ports I hate Windows 7/8 they suck

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Might be your graphics card. Check out "nomodeset" in some of the Linux forums

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[CNexus]

I can never get linux to install. I've tried many times and always hangs on a black screen that shows what's connected to the usb ports I hate Windows 7/8 they suck

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What distros have you tried? I mean if you absolutely have to, you could always go with Wubi and install ubuntu inside your Windows OS
I had some problems with that though, so I just fresh installed Windows, shrank its hard drive space and installed Ubuntu on the other partition

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[CNexus]

I use Ubuntu and have had it on a separate partition for probably 8ish years now(since second year of college). I sometimes bounce to another distro to try for a while, but always come back to Ubuntu because I am used to it.

I am really thinking about looking for another debian based distro(or ubuntu with a different desktop mananger) though because I kind of loath portions of Unity and the amazon integration. I don't mind having the side bar with app icons pinned to it, thats how I keep my win7 desktop setup. I absolutely hate just about everything else though.

For those that are comfortable with windows you may want to check out Zorin OS, its a ubuntu based distro that emulates the windows desktop manager.

Yeah I know what you mean, I don't like all that integration either.

And there's also Kubuntu if you're more comfortable with Windows

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[YoungCorruptionV2.0]

Might be your graphics card. Check out "nomodeset" in some of the Linux forums

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Will have to look into that. Thanks

What distros have you tried? I mean if you absolutely have to, you could always go with Wubi and install ubuntu inside your Windows OS
I had some problems with that though, so I just fresh installed Windows, shrank its hard drive space and installed Ubuntu on the other partition

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I tried ubuntu, mint, red hat and a couple of others. I did try wubi to install in windows but when I tried to use it after installing my screen goes black with green lines. Maybe it is my graphics card. Ill have to look more into it when I get my computer fixed

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[bilgerryan]

I can never get linux to install. I've tried many times and always hangs on a black screen that shows what's connected to the usb ports I hate Windows 7/8 they suck

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Same problem here

 

[VICODAN]

Fedora Fedora Fedora Fedora

honorable mention to Mint.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Just wanted to take a quick poll, of those of you that use Linux, what distro and/or flavor are you on?

I'll start:
Ubuntu 12.10 > Normal/Default Ubuntu, Debian

On my family computer I have ubuntu 12.10 w/ unity, docky and virtualized win7. Its an i7 with 8gb of ram so I don't care about it not being a light distro.
I chose ubuntu because its the most linux friendly distro and my mom, dad, and sisters use it a lot and I don't feel like being their tech guy all the time.

On my laptop I mostly use windows 7 because it really can't handle the main desktop environments (crappy processors and I've made it overheat a lot so that doesn't help the processors). I don't like how the light desktop environments look so I just use win7. All I do on it is research papers so it all works well lol

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I use Ubuntu and have had it on a separate partition for probably 8ish years now(since second year of college). I sometimes bounce to another distro to try for a while, but always come back to Ubuntu because I am used to it.

I am really thinking about looking for another debian based distro(or ubuntu with a different desktop mananger) though because I kind of loath portions of Unity and the amazon integration. I don't mind having the side bar with app icons pinned to it, thats how I keep my win7 desktop setup. I absolutely hate just about everything else though.

For those that are comfortable with windows you may want to check out Zorin OS, its a ubuntu based distro that emulates the windows desktop manager.

Elementary os is a nice ubuntu based distro.
The latest beta is really nice.
Its pretty lightweight too.
I had it on my laptop for a while since it looked nice and it was lightweight.
After a while my processors were at 50-60% all the time so I got rid of it.
It still needs some polish (no minimize button in the windows lol) but I really liked it.

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[csmasn]

Slack... ubuntu is Windows for free.

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[BigSplit]

How is it like windows?

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Slack... ubuntu is Windows for free.

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Lol if anything they're trying for the Mac look/interface and apple way of running things

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