Are you using Linux OS?

Are you using Linux OS?

  • NO

    Votes: 14 38.9%

  • YES as secondary

    Votes: 11 30.6%

  • YES as daily driver

    Votes: 11 30.6%
  • Total voters
    36
stonjean633 said:
Windows ecosystem
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The ecosystem doesn't matter if you don't have the budget to buy. Eventually features trickle down in price, but those features also gets copied into open source. Things just appear more attractive in the windows ecosystem because vendors spend money to promote.
 
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For many years, I worked on Linux Mint, then a lot on Mac Mini on Intel CPU, then M1, M2, where performance and security is great, then Windows 10, Windows 11, and now Fedora 42 -> 43 KDE, but also multiple virtual machines with various operating systems.

Moreover, I am all for the popularization of open source in local government units and at higher levels, and I like what has been done recently in Europe with NextCloud. On the other hand, schools do not pay enough attention to software and systems other than Windows. It's a huge waste of potential young people and their young brains.
 
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I've used Linux a fair amount in the past, my ongoing issues was that I also needed some Windows programs that then were just not good enough in free, esp music, video, high speed ripping & then needed MS Office (I don't now) so I was maintaining a dual boot system which I feel was giving me really the worst of both worlds - I suppose now I'm happy with MS 11, unless MS push me to far but that hasn't happened just yet, I do keep Linux as an alternative but recent life events are keeping changes on a back burner at least for now - But I still know how to run Linux & its not some dark room full of unknowns, so its an option?

Probably a good idea if you have children/grandchildren to keep offering Linux to them, as a viable alternative but many now live on phones so??
 
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Adrian Ścibor said:
For many years, I worked on Linux Mint, then a lot on Mac Mini on Intel CPU, then M1, M2, where performance and security is great, then Windows 10, Windows 11, and now Fedora 42 -> 43 KDE, but also multiple virtual machines with various operating systems.

Moreover, I am all for the popularization of open source in local government units and at higher levels, and I like what has been done recently in Europe with NextCloud. On the other hand, schools do not pay enough attention to software and systems other than Windows. It's a huge waste of potential young people and their young brains.
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Yes, you're right.
When my daughter was at school and used Linux, she was the only student who had to worry about how to do the various exercises (only designed for Windows) on her Linux PC.
Luckily, her father (me) was there...

I notice that even now, despite several years having passed, we are still at the same point.
 
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Captain Awesome said:
Any crash on Fedora?
I want stability over everything, Is Fedora stable for 2014 dell inspiron 15? Can you suggest me any tips?
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well, I recall one on fedora 42 over about 18 months, not a crash exactly, but after a daily update, it would not connect, fedora devs had it fixed with a day or two -- that's my experience. I use the Gnome desktop. fwiw chatGPT has pretty good insights into linux, can help with tweaks, etc...
 
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I also have Rocky_VM (enterprise RHEL) v. 9.6. I don't run it that often, but running it last night and today. I understand it's "a downstream, bug-for-bug compatible rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux of RHEL" I wanted to try a linux that's a little more "enterprise_y" -- as fedora updates almost every day, and I'm wanting simple calmness. I think Rocky might become my daily driver. I do have a M4_mini I use (can use) for certain things. (I ran CentOS for several years ages ago, which IIRC was also based on RHEL so I'm comfy here -- famous last words :ROFLMAO: )
 
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Always get a kick out of the "Linux is too hard" crowd. They whine about dependencies on a pristine Arch install, then look at my Chromebook and assume I’m playing in a sandbox. Cute.

They have no idea. The cognitive dissonance is staggering, thinking this is "easy mode" when I’m actually handcuffed to a restricted kernel. I’m over here trying to coax Suricata and Nmap to behave inside a container that barely wants to exist, let alone pass raw sockets. Wireshark on a machine built for Google Sheets? That is a Sisyphean task.

And don't get me started on KVM. Trying to spin up Kali or Parrot in this environment isn't administration, it's digital masochism. Yet, somehow, I’ve got the lights on. Against all logic, it actually works. 🙃
 
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Isn't that the point of Windows though? To remove the terminal and having to type in too many commands?

Don't get me wrong I like using the terminal on Linux and it's a great skill to have but these days I would be more inclined to study and master LLM prompts.

In the end Linux is becoming more like Windows in becoming pointy clicky and Windows more like Linux with powershell etc. Strange days!
 
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I have used Linux Mint off and on for about 2 years now, I put Mint Cinnamon on an older Toshiba laptop and it worked well. I swapped in an 8GB memory stick for a 12GB total and a 500GB SATA SSD. I work at home and used Mint primarily in my home office when I needed a computer for personal use during my work day. In all the time I used that Mint laptop I only needed the terminal twice. Once to add the Carlito and Calibri fonts to Libreoffice Writer and once to enable to number lock to be on all the time. That laptop was fun to use but the CPU is failing and the screen keeps blinking on and off. I have another old laptop that still works, and I want to swap in the Mint SSD and memory but just have not got around to doing it yet.

I will keep my daily driver laptop on Windows11 if/when/until MS really ruins the W12 OS or if I ever lose the ability to turn off Co-Pilot or any other Windows AI. I liked how Linux does not push AI on its users but the thing that got really to me about Linux was the lack of antivirus or security apps. I know Linux is by design less prone to malware but I never have felt good about doing any online banking or bill paying on Linux. Another thing that I really did like about Mint is music sounds so much better on their Pipewire audio server than on Windows' Realtek. The few times I ever tried to use the Windows terminal it did not work out very well at all.

C.H.
 
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My hardware is in perfectly fine working condition, but not eligible for the Windows 11 upgrade.

I want things to get out of my way and not offer this, that, and the other; just do my work and be done with it.

Linux does that, and I have been fine with the Ubuntu 22.04 with Ubuntu pro for the past year. Learning curve for some things, although fairly seamless and pleasant for the most part.
 
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Captain Holly said:
I know Linux is by design less prone to malware but I never have felt good about doing any online banking or bill paying on Linux.
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Yeah I know the feeling. I had Windows 10 Pro on my desktop with WDAC enabled (with ISG) and Defender cloud protection level set to Zero Tolerance. It took me some time to get used to running without security software. Putting all none core apps in sandboxes: print in AppArmor, default Accessoiries in Firejail and all desktop aps in Flatpak (Libre office, Thunderbird, Teams, Brave) and stripped permissions (using Flatseal) sort of helped to get over my "security software separation anxiety".

In the beginning I used to do periodic scans with ClamAv and Linux Malware Detect, but after nine months I started to feel comfortable and dropped that habit.
 
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