orby
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debian + fluxbox on my laptop.
Win7 for gaming on my homecomputer.
Win7 for gaming on my homecomputer.
I used Linux for years, if i decide im gonna run one its arch though. on my on free will and desire I run windows 8 on all my computers and typing this in bed on surface rt. work I use windows 7 and apple garbage that I hate. just a preference thing at this point but I respect Linux. I guess what I hate the most about it is how easy it is now. before it was more like an os that you can mess around and learn in, now distros like Ubuntu make it seem like I might as well use windows because of the way its built. im a programmer for a living so I know what to do, its just not fun anymore for me. I was thinking about getting back into it though.
Gave Gentoo a try, but didn't really find any benefit from compiling everything. An SSD gave much more boost, modern hardware is already more than sufficient.
Also I was just talking about this with a coworker last week. Now its like its my job to haggle around making software work. When I get home and in my free time I just want it to work. I still like Linux and I'm sure that I will get back into it again soon, but just need to have more free time, lol
The family was raised on Unix, so Slackware was my first experience on computers. Then it was a gradual transition to Debian, then Ubuntu when that came out, and now I use mainly Arch + DWM/XFCE for home use, and Gentoo/FreeBSD for everything else. The Windows paradigm is still so alien to me, and I don't game frequently, so whenever I go and use someone else's computer, I get pegged as a "computer illiterate", because it takes me forever to navigate through something I've barely used. I ask them where the terminal is, and they just stare at you blankly. "Doesn't that black box only come up when your computer breaks or something?"
People always seem to think that compiling is mainly for performance boost. Not really the case for modern hardware and architectures It's really about the complete and total modular control at the package level, and how handling them can be so elegant with Gentoo. Really the best of both world from Linux and BSD. If only Arch wasn't so convenient for home use...
People are always freaked out about that little "black box" So when I was in a Starbucks a few weeks ago I was just updating my computer so I hadn't bothered to boot into the desktop environment in debian. I guess a customer thought I was hacking or something cause all this text was just scrolling by on my screen while I sat and watched, the manager came over and asked me to leave for suspicious activity. I asked him why but he wouldn't tell me what I did and just said a customer had complained about me, I left because it was late and I didn't feel like fighting with him, but seriously I think people watch to much TV or something, we need to educate them.
Ok, I will give you that. My home server/router/von is all Linux based. I attempted that on windows and it was the biggest fail in my computer history. It was just so broken. But this weekend I get Monday off for the holiday and I am going to be getting a Linux up again.
The Linux ecosystem has come along way, but Ubuntu has really pushed it especially with the software center that simplified installing programs and tweaks plus when you download an application it opens in the software center and installs through that just like you would on a Mac.
I think the only thing I usually have to do in terminal is CD'ing to something, everything else is just copy and paste.