What Linux Distro do the Linux users of GH use?

[geekhack360]

I use xubuntu.

[S1llyC0ne]

I use xfce-flavoured Manjaro Linux on my laptop after a few years on Ubuntu.
I've been happily surprised with the speed and I also gained on the battery life side.

[cryptokey]

I'm very happy with Linux Mint running KDE.  Previously I had Cinnamon but I found it to be too unstable - it would freeze, crash, and generally cause headaches.  I'd consider going to Arch in the future though.

Arch now.

[trenzafeeds]

Linux plebs. BSD is the only true way.

[rowdy]

Linux plebs. BSD is the only true way.

Which BSD?

[sean]

Linux plebs. BSD is the only true way.

My network runs BSD, but that's it.

[sth]

Linux plebs. BSD is the only true way.

the only true way to what?

[trenzafeeds]

Linux plebs. BSD is the only true way.

Which BSD?

Net and sometimes free.

[vivalarevolución]

Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon.  After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu.  I'm a fan of the KDE interface. 

And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd?  Please, I need to know.

[jaffers]

Laptop: Manjaro (i3)/OSX
BIG PC: Wangblows 8/majaro (kde)
Small PC/Server/Build Testing/OthercrapPC: Everything
Elite HAXOR USB: suse studio made Os with 1337 tools

[sean]

Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon.  After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu.  I'm a fan of the KDE interface. 

And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd?  Please, I need to know.

Not really, no.

[trenzafeeds]

Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon.  After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu.  I'm a fan of the KDE interface. 

And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd?  Please, I need to know.

Not really, no.

But please at least switch away from Kubuntu at least, even if its only to like normal ubuntu or mint, just not Kubuntu. It's unfortunately been really broken as of late. You can still use KDE with other distros.

[rowdy]

Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon.  After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu.  I'm a fan of the KDE interface. 

And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd?  Please, I need to know.

Not really, no.

But please at least switch away from Kubuntu at least, even if its only to like normal ubuntu or mint, just not Kubuntu. It's unfortunately been really broken as of late. You can still use KDE with other distros.

Kubuntu was dropped from the official Ubuntu derivatives at one stage - then re-added.

Did I hear that it was dropped again?

[jaffers]

Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon.  After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu.  I'm a fan of the KDE interface. 

And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd?  Please, I need to know.

MANJARO 4 LYFE! Get KDE version NOW! Feel the love for pacman and non broken repos! Everything great about ARCH in one easy package without the cancerous community!

[retrochick]

antergos on my x200.

[iri]

Laptop: Manjaro (i3)/OSX

same here, besides it's enlightenment and not i3

[jdcarpe]

Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon.  After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu.  I'm a fan of the KDE interface. 

And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd?  Please, I need to know.

If you want to be a bigger nerd, try building your own with Arch. And get rid of that KDE while you're at it, and use a window manager instead. I like Openbox.

[iri]

If you want to be a bigger nerd, build your own LFS!

[trenzafeeds]

If you want to be the biggest nerd build your own version of Unix. That might take some time though.

[dan002]

The raspberry pi upgraded their official OS to Debian Jessy. Super awesome because who can complain
about using a distro made for the hardware. Don't get me wrong, linux is great but sucks with hardware
compatibility. Often times simple this complicate new linux users and scare them away from a good experiance.

[davkol]

linux is great but sucks with hardware compatibility.

That's not even wrong…

[suicidal_orange]

linux is great but sucks with hardware compatibility.

That's not even wrong…

What hardware doesn't work?

[dan002]

I guess the hardware that is not supported by the Distro.
I also believe the problem is, drivers are often closed source for NIC's, Webcams, track pads etc...
For distro developers to use the hardware features, they have to reverse engineer it. But since
the raspberry pi is open source hardware  all the code is there to use.

[davkol]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

What does work: nearly everything, including obscure architectures, a lot of really old expansion cards and peripherals… and a lot of bleeding edge hardware at the other end of the spectrum.

What does not work: a whole lot of cheap garbage from sources like DealExtreme, glued together by incompetent wage slaves; some hardware "designed" for MS Windows with various obscure hacks (ahem, ACPI is a good example) due to Microsoft's Embrace, extend and extinguish policy; some common hardware, esp. GPUs and some specialized chips from companies, that deliberately choose to make life harder for the kernel community.

For example, the UVC standard is well supported in GNU/Linux nowadays, but while UVC is originally Microsoft's standard, their very own line of webcams doesn't implement it correctly.

[fohat.digs]

The vast majority of the trouble that I have had with Linux has been getting common, reasonably modern ethernet and wi-fi gear to be recognized.

[davkol]

Quite frankly, most of especially, but not only consumer-grade networking gear is pretty awful, as in "not very different from, say, cheap Android tablets". (LKML is often a "fun" read for that matter.)

[suicidal_orange]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

What does work: nearly everything, including obscure architectures, a lot of really old expansion cards and peripherals… and a lot of bleeding edge hardware at the other end of the spectrum.

What does not work: a whole lot of cheap garbage from sources like DealExtreme, glued together by incompetent wage slaves; some hardware "designed" for MS Windows with various obscure hacks (ahem, ACPI is a good example) due to Microsoft's Embrace, extend and extinguish policy; some common hardware, esp. GPUs and some specialized chips from companies, that deliberately choose to make life harder for the kernel community.

Haha, I assumed the strange phrasing was due to English not being your first language, didn't consider it could be a quote!

Seems nothing's changed since I was last shopping for hardware, GPUs have dodgy binary drivers but for pretty much anything else you use at home you just have to check what you're buying before choosing the cheapest option.  Especially wifi and touchpads

[iri]

linux is great but sucks with hardware compatibility.

That's not even wrong…

What hardware doesn't work?

macbooks' web cameras.

also, there's quite a few pieces of hardware not having open source drivers.

[vivalarevolución]

Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon.  After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu.  I'm a fan of the KDE interface. 

And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd?  Please, I need to know.

Not really, no.

But please at least switch away from Kubuntu at least, even if its only to like normal ubuntu or mint, just not Kubuntu. It's unfortunately been really broken as of late. You can still use KDE with other distros.

Yea, this is the kinda stuff I don't know anything about.   Works alright for me.  I'm such a Linux newb.

[sean]

Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon.  After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu.  I'm a fan of the KDE interface. 

And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd?  Please, I need to know.

Not really, no.

But please at least switch away from Kubuntu at least, even if its only to like normal ubuntu or mint, just not Kubuntu. It's unfortunately been really broken as of late. You can still use KDE with other distros.

Yea, this is the kinda stuff I don't know anything about.   Works alright for me.  I'm such a Linux newb.

I don't get the KDE hate. If it runs fine and you enjoy the look and feel of KDE then by all means use it.

[vivalarevolución]

It also seems like discussion of Linux distros also is subject to similar bickering among the users as any other niche hobby.

[FreeCopy]

Just got Linux Mint up and running. The installation went fine. The problem I had was getting Grub to recognize Win10.

The problem turned out to be the Win10 installation. It decided during install to go with MBR instead of an EFI boot partition. How it did this when the MB was set for UEFI is beyond me.

Had to resize part of the Win10 install partition to make room for an EFI partition. After that worked out I went back and Grub was able to find the Win10 drive and make it bootable. Now it all works and dual boots without issue.

[BigDov]

I liked Crunchbang when it was being updated / maintained, but haven't messed with anything for a while..... seeing lots of folks talking about Manjaro, I might have to give that a shot.

[RoastPotatoes]

Just got Linux Mint up and running. The installation went fine. The problem I had was getting Grub to recognize Win10.

The problem turned out to be the Win10 installation. It decided during install to go with MBR instead of an EFI boot partition. How it did this when the MB was set for UEFI is beyond me.

Had to resize part of the Win10 install partition to make room for an EFI partition. After that worked out I went back and Grub was able to find the Win10 drive and make it bootable. Now it all works and dual boots without issue.

EFI has ruined my life. Installing any OS now has become strangely complex to me. I always do it wrong. I had arch on the MBR and win on EFI so I could use the EFI menu to choose which os which would then potentially take me to grub. I'm so confused.

[KRKS]

I liked Crunchbang when it was being updated / maintained, but haven't messed with anything for a while..... seeing lots of folks talking about Manjaro, I might have to give that a shot.

You may like Crunchbang++

Just got Linux Mint up and running. The installation went fine. The problem I had was getting Grub to recognize Win10.

The problem turned out to be the Win10 installation. It decided during install to go with MBR instead of an EFI boot partition. How it did this when the MB was set for UEFI is beyond me.

Had to resize part of the Win10 install partition to make room for an EFI partition. After that worked out I went back and Grub was able to find the Win10 drive and make it bootable. Now it all works and dual boots without issue.

EFI has ruined my life. Installing any OS now has become strangely complex to me. I always do it wrong. I had arch on the MBR and win on EFI so I could use the EFI menu to choose which os which would then potentially take me to grub. I'm so confused.

I think you mean UEFI, which is what M$ crapped out after eating the EFI standard

[RoastPotatoes]

I liked Crunchbang when it was being updated / maintained, but haven't messed with anything for a while..... seeing lots of folks talking about Manjaro, I might have to give that a shot.

You may like Crunchbang++

Just got Linux Mint up and running. The installation went fine. The problem I had was getting Grub to recognize Win10.

The problem turned out to be the Win10 installation. It decided during install to go with MBR instead of an EFI boot partition. How it did this when the MB was set for UEFI is beyond me.

Had to resize part of the Win10 install partition to make room for an EFI partition. After that worked out I went back and Grub was able to find the Win10 drive and make it bootable. Now it all works and dual boots without issue.

EFI has ruined my life. Installing any OS now has become strangely complex to me. I always do it wrong. I had arch on the MBR and win on EFI so I could use the EFI menu to choose which os which would then potentially take me to grub. I'm so confused.

I think you mean UEFI, which is what M$ crapped out after eating the EFI standard

I think I do, but I'm a little uncertain on everything. I was creating efi partitions yesterday and was very lost. As it currently stands I have a working dualboot with win 10 and arch. Using traditional legacy bios, not the new fancy thing.

[user 18]

I liked Crunchbang when it was being updated / maintained, but haven't messed with anything for a while..... seeing lots of folks talking about Manjaro, I might have to give that a shot.

You may like Crunchbang++

Or Bunsen Labs.

Although I know people who have had issues with getting either one or both of those projects to do what they wanted.

[vivalarevolución]

Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon.  After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu.  I'm a fan of the KDE interface. 

And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd?  Please, I need to know.

Not really, no.

But please at least switch away from Kubuntu at least, even if its only to like normal ubuntu or mint, just not Kubuntu. It's unfortunately been really broken as of late. You can still use KDE with other distros.

I did try a couple other distros with KDE and noticed they worked quite a bit smoother and seemed more stable.  I see what you mean.

Lots of Linux choices out there.  Slightly overwhelming.

[redskull]

can you guys recommend me a couple of good linux distros for a noob? that would be me.. 

im quite familiar with windows and i tinker with computer parts from time to time though.

[iri]

can you guys recommend me a couple of good linux distros for a noob? that would be me.. 

im quite familiar with windows and i tinker with computer parts from time to time though.

do you also make spaghetti? it's no less relevant.

anyway, just install mint.

[meow a cat]

I've tried a few distros, but I keep having different problems with each. Probably easily solved if it weren't for my GNU/Linux noobness.  )

So far my favourite distro has been Fedora 23 with KDE Plasma. Except that after a few days, it decided it didn't want to boot and would lock up part way through. GRUB also wouldn't show my Win 10 installation, but that's probably something I did wrong on my end. I'm going to try again in the next few days, and I'm hoping it works - I want a stable install so I can actually get to know the OS.

[ttzhou]

i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.

anyone give it a spin?

[trenzafeeds]

i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.

anyone give it a spin?

Wow, that sounds really interesting, I'll have to try it out. I'd love a more BSD like feel with the compatibility of Linux.

[ttzhou]

i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.

anyone give it a spin?

Wow, that sounds really interesting, I'll have to try it out. I'd love a more BSD like feel with the compatibility of Linux.

i will probably try to get it running on my laptop at some point. my only concern is how robust its binary library really is (i mean, building from source is cool, but im super lazy half the time)

[KRKS]

i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.

anyone give it a spin?

Wow, that sounds really interesting, I'll have to try it out. I'd love a more BSD like feel with the compatibility of Linux.

i will probably try to get it running on my laptop at some point. my only concern is how robust its binary library really is (i mean, building from source is cool, but im super lazy half the time)

It's not big, but it's growing, and I didn't notice any missing must-haves. It seems to have a bit of everything, from terminals to games. I recommend checking your commonly used stuff here.

I've checked Void out a few times by now and I like it. I've been waiting on Archbang's team because they were planning on doing Voidbang some time ago, but now apparently they're slowing down with Archbang itself, so looks like I'll have to look into configuring Openbox on my own.

[iri]

i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.

anyone give it a spin?

You can remove systemd's **** from arch, but it's not supported. In Manjaro it is, though.

[trenzafeeds]

i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.

anyone give it a spin?

You can remove systemd's **** from arch, but it's not supported. In Manjaro it is, though.

But with void you can have an operating system called "void"...

[ttzhou]

i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.

anyone give it a spin?

You can remove systemd's **** from arch, but it's not supported. In Manjaro it is, though.

But with void you can have an operating system called "void"...

i will be the first to confess i chose arch linux mainly because of the name.

void is sufficiently cool to warrant the same choice

[deductivemonkee]

I call it "Windows 10".
In all seriousness, I have Ubuntu on my second drive.

[bastones]

I primarily use Ubuntu with Gnome classic at home. At work I'm forced to use Windows.

I've tried most distros, and keep coming back to 'buntu, because I'm very familiar with it.

I'm in the same boat as you. A recent change in policy for the company i work at means I am now forced to use Windows. It's a real pain. Every time I use my personal computer I am reminded at how much better everything is.

On my computer I run Debian 8 Jessie with the GNOME desktop environment. Debian is an amazing distribution, I love it - its super stable and frankly I'm just familiar with apt, that's really the other reason I chose it over other distributions. The only thing I dislike is the outdated kernel in Debian 8 as it ships with an older version of nouveau that doesn't support NV117 cards like the 750 series without relying on the proprietary NVIDIA graphics :-(.