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What Linux Distro do the Linux users of GH use?
suicidal_orange:
Just as an update my crashing seems to have stopped, I've updated the system a couple of times but Firefox was not upgraded. Strange but not going to complain
Correction - it just crashed :(
iLLucionist:
Is it just me, or do other people also experience that Fedora often has kernel hangs? I suspect it is how NVIDIA is patched into stock kernel. Oftentimes when doing GPU intensive stuff OR Firefox, I have kernel hangs. It always starts with firefox locking up, then I cannot open terminals or do anything, and then the mouse freezes.
When I don't touch firefox for hours, but mostly stay in neovim or tmux in terminal (urxvt), it's fine. When I am in Firefox longer times, always a freeze at some moment.
Leslieann:
The FF bug I was seeing when highlighting/copying is an older bug that returned and was a result of libx11, not FF.
Only time I see FF crash otherwise is if I spent far too long on eternal scroll, specifically Reddit which is poorly coded.* My systems is pretty rock solid.
*Blame management for the typical "I don't care how, just get it done" attitude.
SBJ:
Wanted to try something fresh so switched one of my VMs from Ubuntu to Fedora.
Fedora went the windows route with their update system, I don't mind, works well.
I'm ashamed to say that I sold my Linux server - during this period where electricity just costs too much in my country I had to retire it.
Mandan:
at home:
1986-1996 DOS, beginning with IBM DOS 2.1, ending with DR-DOS 5, 4DOS command interpreter, DESQview multitasker, and QEMM memory manager
1996-1999 Windows 95, though the only Windows software I had was Netscape. I ran all my DOS software in console windows.
2000-2011 Mandrake/Mandriva Linux, until it was discontinued
2011-2020 OpenSUSE Linux (KDE)
2020-present KUbuntu
Not counting brief flings with IBM OS/2 1.3, Red Hat, and Debian.
I think KDE went seriously downhill when they did the rewrite between 3.10 and 4.0; it lost both features and stability. In return, it got a bunch more eye candy cruft to seek out and turn off.
at work:
I was a SCO sysadmin in the mid-90s. IT's budget wouldn't stretch for more copies of SCO, so I set up a couple of Slackware servers with the SCO emulator package. They ran just fine.
I'm retired and only have a couple of clients now; I have all their servers running OpenSUSE, some of them hosting Windows 10 servers in virtual machines, and some VNC terminals running Raspbian on Raspberry Pis.
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