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Your Favourite Linux Distro?
  Jun 28 2009, 08:50 AM
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Ultimate Spammer!  Group: Forum Member Joined: August 13, 2006 Member No.: 19,181 Posts: 5,141 Skin: Darkness From: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha R.S. Name: Masterchefsp R.S. Status: Inactive  |
Basically, what is you're favorite Linux distribution? Which one do you use? Sorry i couldn't come up with more Unix distros though, just off the top of my head
 Still, i'm trying to work out which one/s i should use. This should help me a lot, because at the minute i like the look of them all, but they're not really different enough for me to have all of them at once. This isn't the sole purpose of the topic though, talk about Linux, ask questions, whatever. 
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Jun 28 2009, 11:27 AM
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Willow Logs Group: Forum Member Joined: April 7, 2008 Member No.: 60,877 Posts: 1,207 Skin: Darkness From: Midlands, England My Highscores: ICattius R.S. Name: iCattius R.S. Status: Member R.S. Clan: Choc's classic Du Bist Turd. |
My favourite Linux distro is Linux Mint. Looks nice, has better out-of-the-box compatibility than Ubuntu (which it's based on), and is a great distro to recommend to Linux newbies. Although I gather you're not quite a Linux newbie
 QUOTE (Caboose @ Jun 28 2009, 02:50 PM)  lol nevarrrrr  Seriously though, Linux is a cool OS, but it does still get beaten by Windows/OS X in some areas. This post has been edited by Cattius: Jun 28 2009, 11:28 AM |
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Jun 28 2009, 11:32 AM
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Ultimate Spammer! Group: Forum Member Joined: August 13, 2006 Member No.: 19,181 Posts: 5,141 Skin: Darkness From: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha R.S. Name: Masterchefsp R.S. Status: Inactive |
Linux is just the Kernel that the OS uses, not really an OS in itself. And the only area really that it gets beaten in (imo) is compatibility, and that's only because not enough people use it.
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Jun 28 2009, 11:36 AM
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Shade Group: Forum Member Joined: October 11, 2007 Member No.: 49,968 Posts: 3,228 Skin: IPB Enhanced From: That Place which isn't America, ENGLAND. R.S. Status: Retired |
I've only ever used Ubuntu so that takes my vote
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Jun 28 2009, 11:38 AM
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Willow Logs Group: Forum Member Joined: April 7, 2008 Member No.: 60,877 Posts: 1,207 Skin: Darkness From: Midlands, England My Highscores: ICattius R.S. Name: iCattius R.S. Status: Member R.S. Clan: Choc's classic Du Bist Turd. |
QUOTE (Caboose @ Jun 28 2009, 05:32 PM) Linux is just the Kernel that the OS uses, not really an OS in itself. And the only area really that it gets beaten in (imo) is compatibility, and that's only because not enough people use it. I appreciate that it isn't actually an OS. But it's easier to talk about 'Windows, OS X and Linux' OSs than 'Windows, Mac and Linux kernel-based' OSs, for me at least I don't want to turn this into a Windows v. Linux debate, which was why I was deliberately vague. Personally I think all three of the 'major' OSs have their good and bad points, and which is best all depends on what a person is looking for from an OS. |
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Jun 28 2009, 01:14 PM
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Ultimate Spammer! Group: Forum Member Joined: August 13, 2006 Member No.: 19,181 Posts: 5,141 Skin: Darkness From: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha R.S. Name: Masterchefsp R.S. Status: Inactive |
Yes, but everybody's entitled to an opinion. In mine, if enough people actually used Linux then it would be like this:
1) Linux 2) Windows 3) OSX 4) Unix instead of this: 1) Windows 2) OSX 3) Linux 4) Unix Actually i'm not sure about the last one. Is Linux more popular than OSX? |
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Jun 28 2009, 01:49 PM
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Willow Logs Group: Forum Member Joined: April 7, 2008 Member No.: 60,877 Posts: 1,207 Skin: Darkness From: Midlands, England My Highscores: ICattius R.S. Name: iCattius R.S. Status: Member R.S. Clan: Choc's classic Du Bist Turd. |
QUOTE (Caboose @ Jun 28 2009, 07:14 PM) Actually i'm not sure about the last one. Is Linux more popular than OSX? According to this site, OS X has a just under 10% market share, and Linux just under 1%. |
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Jun 28 2009, 02:08 PM
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Tickers are ugly and Betty don' like ugly! Group: Forum Member Joined: November 3, 2005 Member No.: 68 Posts: 11,910 Skin: RuneScape Black From: USA R.S. Status: Retired |
Only one I have used it Ubuntu, it's alright. I prefer Windows.
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Jun 28 2009, 02:22 PM
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Odd Old Man Group: Forum Member Joined: December 14, 2006 Member No.: 27,897 Posts: 12,920 Skin: RuneScape Black From: Your...Dallas...STAAAAAAA AAAAARSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! R.S. Name: redmonke255 R.S. Status: Member R.S. Clan: Hannah Montana fan club!!1 |
I used Ubuntu for quite a while and got really good with it. It's just so confusing though. Too many commands needed to do stuff.
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Jun 28 2009, 06:34 PM
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Turoth Group: Forum Member Joined: August 9, 2007 Member No.: 45,971 Posts: 1,882 Skin: IPB 2.2.0 Default My Highscores: Monkeyfun14 R.S. Name: Monkeyfun14 R.S. Status: Member R.S. Clan: Monkeyfun14 |
Problem with Linux Distros is their is just so damn many of them.
May be one reason why it may not take off since it can't be successfully marketed. |
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Jun 29 2009, 11:08 AM
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Ultimate Spammer! Group: Forum Member Joined: August 13, 2006 Member No.: 19,181 Posts: 5,141 Skin: Darkness From: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha R.S. Name: Masterchefsp R.S. Status: Inactive |
I think it's not successfully marketed because most of them are free, which means there's little money going to the people who make them, which means a lot less is spent on advertising.
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Jun 30 2009, 02:11 PM
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Menaphite Thug Group: Forum Member Joined: November 4, 2005 Member No.: 551 Posts: 1,498 Skin: ChristmasNow From: in your base, shootin your doodz. R.S. Status: Member |
FreeBSD =! Linux
I use Crunchbang. It's easier and faster than Ubuntu. |
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Jul 1 2009, 02:19 PM
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Crawling Hand Group: Forum Member Joined: April 20, 2009 Member No.: 104,877 Posts: 178 Skin: RuneScape Black From: CT, USA R.S. Name: hanhan jr , cirquedufrek R.S. Status: Member |
i use GIMP (not listed). its like a free version of photoshop. it stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. GNU stands for Gimp Not Unix. so yep...
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Jul 1 2009, 02:22 PM
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Ultimate Spammer! Group: Forum Member Joined: August 13, 2006 Member No.: 19,181 Posts: 5,141 Skin: Darkness From: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha R.S. Name: Masterchefsp R.S. Status: Inactive |
Darren, i fail to see how that is relevant. Do you understand what linux and unix are?
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Jul 2 2009, 09:12 AM
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Unicorn Group: Forum Member Joined: October 26, 2008 Member No.: 70,946 Posts: 440 Skin: RuneScape Black From: Georgia, USA, Earth, Milky way. R.S. Name: Qnpz R.S. Status: Retired |
Personally, I use Ubuntu, and Xubuntu when I need less power. I do like Mac OSX, as it's built off UNIX. But, if you're going to get any Distro, i'd recommend Ubuntu. To me, it was the easiest to learn. It's a major swap from Windows, but that'll happen when you swap OS.
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Jul 2 2009, 09:52 AM
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Ultimate Spammer! Group: Forum Member Joined: August 13, 2006 Member No.: 19,181 Posts: 5,141 Skin: Darkness From: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha R.S. Name: Masterchefsp R.S. Status: Inactive |
I'm starting to lean towards Linux Mint, and not just because i love the design of their website. Basically, it's Ubuntu and then some.
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Jul 2 2009, 11:14 AM
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Willow Logs Group: Forum Member Joined: April 7, 2008 Member No.: 60,877 Posts: 1,207 Skin: Darkness From: Midlands, England My Highscores: ICattius R.S. Name: iCattius R.S. Status: Member R.S. Clan: Choc's classic Du Bist Turd. |
QUOTE (darrenshan @ Jul 1 2009, 08:19 PM) i use GIMP (not listed). its like a free version of photoshop. it stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. GNU stands for Gimp Not Unix. so yep... I agree with Caboose, you clearly don't understand what Linux is. Linux is a kernel (as Caboose pointed out earlier), from which people build operating systems called 'distros' or 'distributions'. You are talking about an open-source image editor. And GNU does not stand for 'Gimp Not Unix'; it is a recursive acronym for 'GNU's Not Unix'. QUOTE I'm starting to lean towards Linux Mint, and not just because i love the design of their website. Basically, it's Ubuntu and then some. Yay, I've managed to convert you to it
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Jul 2 2009, 11:38 AM
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Ultimate Spammer! Group: Forum Member Joined: August 13, 2006 Member No.: 19,181 Posts: 5,141 Skin: Darkness From: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha R.S. Name: Masterchefsp R.S. Status: Inactive |
I think you have
It just gets better the more i find out. Mint Installer, Flash Player boxed, Compiz Fusion boxed (i think). Loving the menu as well. |
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