Who here uses a Linux Dist as their main OS at home?

Lots of people running Arch.. everywhere i look nothing but good things about it.

Will have to try it out myself, see what all the fuss is about. :p
 
I used to use Ubuntu but can't stand how limited it felt with Unity. Tried Gnome 3 and again just prefer the traditional desktop look. Back with Windows 7 now until KDE becomes viable then maybe I'll move back to Linux. The whole point I loved about Linux was how customisable it was and Gnome3/Unity took that away so I moved back to Windows as there wasn't any advantage anymore in sticking with Linux.
 
Eh? KDE is absolutely viable now. The only problem I have is a recurring Nepomuk bug but since I never use it anyway I just disable it.
 
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I have Ubuntu on a dual-boot configuration, don't really use it to be fair but it's there if anything was to go wrong with my Windows installation.
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Why not try that the other way around for a bit. Use your ubuntu until you find something you cant get working and only go back to windows for that.
 
Number_25 said:
I have Ubuntu on a dual-boot configuration, don't really use it to be fair but it's there if anything was to go wrong with my Windows installation.
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Still mostly Windows for me, although I like playing around with Linux distros and I'm quite happy to install it on older hardware where I don't want to stick with an antiquated version of Windows or shell out for the current version.

It's really the quality of the applications which is important to me - they're the mechanism by which I can actually *do things* with a computer. The OS is nothing more than a means to enable those applications to run, and beyond that its job IMO is simply to stay out of the way, not crash and not lose my data (which both Windows and Linux manage effectively these days).

IMO the quality of the Windows apps I regularly use is noticeably better than their Linux equivalents, at least for my purposes... that's not to say some Linux apps aren't pretty decent, but I don't see running any particular OS as an end in itself, so it leaves me without any good reason to run a Linux distro as a primary desktop OS, at least for now.
 
TBH I would love to use it on my main PC but for some reason compiz is laggy despite the main rig being way many times more powerful than the lappy ?!

Also Triple displays is a big PINTA under linux :(
 
I don't use it for my main rig but I run Ubuntu (11.04 as I don't like unity) on the computer in my bedroom. I've been running Ubuntu for a couple of years now.
I also ran it on my old laptop but my new one is Win7.
 
I went cold turkey on Opensuse 10.2 few years back, with KDE 3 (still prefer it) I never even booted into a Windows OS for a year and a half. Now-a-days it's about 50/50 with the rigs I have dotted around, but I still prefer linux as a desktop. I also love getting my hands on an old "slow" PC and bringing it back to life with a fast lightweight linux distro.
 
For a while I almost exclusively used linux. However, since I build a new pc 2 years ago I found I got into gaming more and restarting to boot into windows to play games just got frustrating :(. I now have a ubuntu 11.04 vm inside windows 7 which I use exclusively for work.

If steam was ported to linux 100% flawlessly (big ask I'll admit :p) I would switch in a heartbeat.
 
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Yeah well I took the advice of some of you and gave Linux a proper go, I quite enjoy using it.

However the fact that theres practically no gaming support and WINE can barely open up Steam, nevermind a fully fledged 3d game its not going to be my first OS.
 
im playing around with ubuntu, first linux distro i have played with, but i am impressed how much faster/smoother it is than windows!
 
Been using linux as my main OS since 2005/6

Games are for kids ;-) I use it for media, and productivity.

I have to use Windows XP as work, it looks terrible in comparison. Windows 7 isn't bad though.

So far i've been through the following distros:

Gentoo
Yopper
Debian
Ubuntu
Mint
 
Work from home and dual boot:

Debian stable - Work + general usage.
Win 7 - Games.
 
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