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RE: What OS are you using?
February 2, 2016 at 11:13 pm
It's nice to see so many linux users! I wonder if there's a correlation between being an atheist and being a linux user...
Anyway I used to use Fedora, but I kept needing to play with things too much after every update (every 6 months...  ) so I switched to Ubuntu LTS. Learning about computers was fun for a while, but I have other things to do besides figuring out why my wifi isn't working.
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February 3, 2016 at 12:00 am
73% of atheists prefer a Linux distro!
The number 1 reason was because it's free and they won't give their money to no capitalist pigs!
Only 17% of religious people have computers. Most say they can read the bible just fine as a hardback instead on a PDF.
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February 3, 2016 at 7:08 am
Just installed KDE Plasma 5 on lubuntu. I'm normally an LXDE / Mate user but this is nice!
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RE: What OS are you using?
February 3, 2016 at 7:34 am
Which OS am I using?
Bio-human-male OS implanted prior to birth. Hasn't required any maintenance yet, no updates, no anti-virus, no reboots. A few bugs have been spotted, but there are perfectly reasonable workarounds.
My computers, on the other hand...
At work: Fedora... started on 18, now going on 23. Cinnamon desktop because it's the one that looks and behaves the most like windows and I do like to use my windows key properly.
Laptop: Used to be win7, now it's win 10
Phone: MIUI 7.1.2 (based on android 4.4.4)
I can't believe some people refuse to use windows because of stuff M$ does, but will use Ubuntu, which also does stuff... Go for debian, instead, if you like that ecosystem.
If your choice of linux OS is based on the window manager, then you're doing linux wrong!  pretty much any WM will run on any (mainstream) linux.
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RE: What OS are you using?
February 8, 2016 at 2:45 am
(February 3, 2016 at 7:34 am)pocaracas Wrote: I can't believe some people refuse to use windows because of stuff M$ does, but will use Ubuntu, which also does stuff... Go for debian, instead, if you like that ecosystem.
If your choice of linux OS is based on the window manager, then you're doing linux wrong! pretty much any WM will run on any (mainstream) linux.
Ubuntu isn't perfect but still a whole lot better than Windows by far. I prefer Debian personally but always have a Ubuntu VM.
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RE: What OS are you using?
February 8, 2016 at 3:23 am
(February 8, 2016 at 2:45 am)Bella Morte Wrote: (February 3, 2016 at 7:34 am)pocaracas Wrote: I can't believe some people refuse to use windows because of stuff M$ does, but will use Ubuntu, which also does stuff... Go for debian, instead, if you like that ecosystem.
If your choice of linux OS is based on the window manager, then you're doing linux wrong! pretty much any WM will run on any (mainstream) linux.
Ubuntu isn't perfect but still a whole lot better than Windows by far. I prefer Debian personally but always have a Ubuntu VM.
I like and have used both for a long time. For the home desktop, windows wins hands down.
It's just a better allrounder sadly...
Vista and 8 were dogs but they're on the right track now.
M$ has one thing the open source community doesn't. Focus!
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February 8, 2016 at 8:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2016 at 8:41 pm by bennyboy.)
As a small-time programmer (I literally write programs for just my company's internal use, or a couple for clients, and some for students), I can't imagine leaving Windows. I know for sure that almost 100% of my students will have access to a Windows machine. I do not know this about Linux.
Add to that how easy it is to design Windows programs using C# .NET, and Windows it is.
Here's what I did in a couple hours:
Wrote a program to edit books from Gutenburg. Edit them in a textbox, organize clippings, make questions about them to add to a SQL database. Still using Microsoft (ASP.NET), throw together a web control that will display the questions and administer a multiple-choice test. And most importantly, I installed the program on all the laptops at work, so any teacher can now make questions based on Gutenburg-hosted books.
I could have done all those things with this or that Linux redist. Could have used PHP or Java. Could have used mySQL instead of MSSQL. What I could not have done is confidently deployed my system, in 1 day, to the people who could use it.
Oh yeah, and M$ has removed the $ from the process. Visual Studio, C# and .ASP are all free while being massively supported by the company.
/Windows fanboy testimonial
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March 14, 2016 at 2:42 am
I use Linux.. Best ever
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March 14, 2016 at 3:17 am
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RE: What OS are you using?
March 14, 2016 at 10:12 am
I have a server running Windows Server 2008R2 with VMs running Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2005, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Red Hat Linux, and soon a Windows 10 one.
My laptops are running Windows 7 SP1, but I'll update one to Windows 10. I'm considering making one dual-boot Windows and Linux.
I develop Windows and embedded software, so Linux is interesting but not critical.
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