Daily driver?

[discipulus]

Do any of you use Linux as your daily driver on your laptop / desktop? What version are you using and why? I would also consider FreeBSD for this discussion.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Towards the later part of the WinXP days, I ran OpenSUSE dual booted on my laptop. When Vista came out, I didn't like it so I was pretty much using OpenSUSE as my daily driver on my laptop. Actually had Server 2008 and OpenSUSE dual booted on the laptop for quite a while too.

When 7 came back out....I started digging 7 again. Current laptop is dual booted..but actually have Mint Olivia on it as I just felt like dorking around with that.

 

[SilverLeaf]

Arch Linux on my old Thinkpad (and all of my desktops). LXDE for the desktop environment. Lightweight and super fast.

 

[BrentfromZulu]

At my 9-5 we have about 4 D620/D630's around. On one of them I just put on Linux Mint. I want to be better skilled at Linux, so there are times I do stuff like this. When I'm at home, I have Mint in a VM and use that occasionally. Every day I get a bit closer to running that full time. It's the PC games that stop me though.

 

[discipulus]

I use OS X as my daily driver, but I did have an HP Proliant ML350 G3 server with 5x 140gb SCSI drives on a software raid 0 running Arch Linux at home. It was my usenet box because I only have a 120gb ssd in my Mac. I also set-up X and FreeNX on it for remote administration. I too would like to get better at running Linux. Any site recommendations for following the latest trends and learning tips and tricks?

 

[coffee]

Fedora 19 on my main surfing box with Virtualbox for win7, Debian squeeze, mint 16rc, Mint 15

Laptops (2) both run mint 14, File server runs Ubuntu server 12.04.

My new cloner server runs mint 15. I just like the convenience of installing things quicker with mint and its software manager. Fedora can get a bit wicked on some installs.


coffee

coffee

 

[tekunlock]

I have been using Ubuntu on my desktop and laptops for a couple years now. I play with a few other distros from time to time but Ubuntu and other Debian variants are what I started with so I am more comfortable. I have a couple CentOS VMs I am playing with too.

On the laptop I use for work and on my Desktop I use VirtualBox and have a Win7 and Win8 machine that I can use if necessary but I don't need it often. There were a couple hours worth of updates last time I booted them.

 

[SpaceSquad]

Yes, I run Linux "full time" on all my machines.

Main Desktop - Kubuntu
Laptop - Kubuntu
Netbook - XFCE on Debian
HTPC - Ubuntu - to see where Unity is going
Servers - Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
Router Box - PfSense (FreeBSD-based)

Kubuntu because I love what the Ubuntu kernel brings to the table, and the KDE desktop is amazing.

 

[Markverhyden]

Primary is OS X.

I recently retired my D610's, the backups, which were XP Pro and OpenSUSE. Bought a couple of D630's and I'm building them up. I've got SSD's as the primary drives, I'll max the RAM to 8gb. The Windoze side will be W7 Pro. But for *nix I'm experimenting with Kali, the successor to BackTrack. At the end of the day, beyond regular web and business docs stuff, I do use Linux for things like network evaluations and data recovery so I might as well start with one that has all of that stuff built in. Just need to get things like Libre installed.

 

[altrenda]

I try to use what my clients use, so that's OS X, Windows, Android, and IO S. It's all I can do to keep up with the quirks, bugs, features and changes of these on a daily basis. I have a box with Linux Mint, but it doesn't get use.

 

[codegreen]

Xubuntu is on my main laptop. I like it because it's speedy and stays out of the way, but I also get the Ubuntu backend, which allows for easy software installation. Lots of third-party software that isn't in the standard repositories have PPAs available.

The main family computer is running Linux Mint with Cinnamon, which is quite nice.

 

[SkySoftTech]

Relative newbie here so please don't jump down my throat. For those who dual boot Windows and Linux, what are the main advantages you see with this configuration? What do you use each for?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Relative newbie here so please don't jump down my throat. For those who dual boot Windows and Linux, what are the main advantages you see with this configuration? What do you use each for?

Sometimes I need Windows. For an application that needs to run on Windows. Often on my laptop I have Outlook and Lync client open no matter where I am.

Years ago when I ran more *Nix on my laptop when I was onsite, I used to use multi-IM programs like pidgin, and I'd use OWA for my Exchange mail.

Since Win7 I've just been more on the Windows boot.

 

[coffee]

Relative newbie here so please don't jump down my throat. For those who dual boot Windows and Linux, what are the main advantages you see with this configuration? What do you use each for?

Mostly, Virus scanning(although I do it in a VM instead) and testing software. Although Linux has no active video streaming program for broadcasting.

I use Fedora 19 pretty much for everything though.

coffee

 

[SpaceSquad]

Relative newbie here so please don't jump down my throat. For those who dual boot Windows and Linux, what are the main advantages you see with this configuration? What do you use each for?

Linux (KDE on Ubuntu) is used for everything...even gaming on Steam, Desura, etc. I have VMs of XP and 7 in case I need to do something windows-based.

Windows is used for those few games I cannot play on Linux like Arma2/3 and BF4

 

[clayb226]

I use Ubuntu 14.04 on my main system at work, but also have dual boot to windows. I also use LXDE, as I did not really care for Unity!!

 

[e2346437]

2011 Macbook Air 13.3" here. Have Parallels with Win 7 Pro for Mikrotik winbox and VMWare console stuff. This is the only laptop I've ever had that never, ever fails to be ready when I pull it out of my backpack. The only downside is the 128GB flash drive is too small.

 

[lowbudgetlaptops]

Yes I use watts OS r6 lxde based on ubuntu 12.04 lts. on a thinkpad t41, works great for me on my older hardware also on a dell dimension 3000 dual booted with windows xp, secured with malwarebytes pro and advast free version.

 

[Altster]

Every day I get a bit closer to running that full time. It's the PC games that stop me though.

So if you cannot get away from the PC games (I know what you mean here) then run a VM inside Linux for Windows and your Games only. Of course there are quite a few good Open Source Linux games out.

 

[Kaizen]

I ran Linux exclusively for several years before getting into the pc repair business. Now I mainly run Windows. My main box at home is a dual boot with Arch Linux, which I hardly use.