Any of you running Linux?

[Nikasil]

Ubuntu 19 for the server, Raspbian for the printer Pi’s...

[2shotjoe]

i was running Mint 19 and playing window games with steam. wanted to play blizzard games and i had to switch back to windows. it's just hard switching back.

Mint didn't work my laptop's finger print reader and wouldn't switch off the NVIDIA card to Intel when i wasn't playing games. maybe a future distro will fix that.

[Cowboy T]

Anybody who tries to use Microsoft Office on a GNU/Linux distro (e. g. with Wine or Crossover Office), I have no idea why, given that LibreOffice is so good at this point and has been for quite a long time. It's been 17 years since MS Office was in my home, and I routinely run LibreOffice at work as well (this is on a MS Windows box).

If you're just wedded to Adobe Photoshop, and that's how you make money, then I can see it; I'd still choose a Mac, though, for such tasks. To date, there has been nothing here at home, including as a general user, that I've had to do that GNU/Linux has not been able to handle. Matter of fact, it handles several things better than MS Windows. And it respects my freedom.

[Robotron2k84]

Office 365 via a web browser is 95% of the stand-alone programs.

There is almost no need for native apps like office anymore.

[Dragunov]

Ubuntu is an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me."


When learning, I actually only had one distro(, at the time) support my wireless card OOTB, and it was Slackware, in like... 2003. I use a Slackware a few times a week, minimum in a VM, and used to run an ssh tunnel home every day from work.

My work used to be an *IX shop.
I don't use Linux as my native OS, but did at work for over a year, and supported like 1800 users via Pear Linux OS, natively, although I did have to use a Windows VM when required.

You can actually run a LOT of Linux utils from Windows via Cygwin.

What I liked most:
Slackware
Pearl OS (have to dig for one that works well)
Knoppix
Pear Linux OS (discontinued)
Slax
Kali
Backtrack
Puppy was included on my OG XBOX when I had it modded, and XBMC is actually what started "Kodi" dev. for all the Fire-stick-streaming enthusiasts a few years back. This seemed to have forced a LOT of the streaming providers to make more avail via stream, it seems.
Slackintosh, for PPC based Macs, to make them usable.

I've fixed Windows issues with Linux distros since... forever!

If you are unaware, Linux is running on ALL Android devices (2019: ~86.6% of the phone market, iPhones: ~13.4%), WebOS, Fire Sticks, and the majority of home routers... hell, even many devices like AM/PM things you stick your card into run Linux. Kronos Time clocks run Linux.
Apple products run a different code-base, based on BSD.

Apple can't take over the world while Linux is free, and can run on just about everything natively.
How many Apple products in the data center? About none.

If work keeps this lock-down up, I'm going to switch back over to Linux as my native OS.

I like Knoppix. I use it to rescue data off Windows disks that don't boot, and are not visible in windows. Linux Peppermint is good for that too.

[the86d]

I like Knoppix. I use it to rescue data off Windows disks that don't boot, and are not visible in windows. Linux Peppermint is good for that too.

That was one of my favorite uses for Knoppix, as it would even write to NTFS volumes, if need be, on the newer flavors. Not much need when some machines can reinstall windows 10 In 30 minutes these days on an SSD from a USB stick, and since I do well enough now to not need to do side work it has been a long time since I used it for this purpose.

[usr1987]

I recently moved from Ubuntu since they keep trying to reinvent and forcing snap apps first, and moved to POP OS. I am impressed. I used to use debian but I need some more updated apps and its hard to figure things out since I do not program and I am just a user not a tinker! I mainly want privacy and less intrusion!

[Harley Hound]

I recently moved from Ubuntu since they keep trying to reinvent and forcing snap apps first, and moved to POP OS. I am impressed. I used to use debian but I need some more updated apps and its hard to figure things out since I do not program and I am just a user not a tinker! I mainly want privacy and less intrusion!

Have you tried Fedora, I have found it to be rock solid and a nice distro.

[Cowboy T]

Fedora's a good distro. It's definitely somewhat "bleeding edge" at times, since it's the test ground for RHEL. But I've used it and have found it to be pretty easy to deal with. It's a good choice.

I'm still on Kubuntu LTS because they haven't forced 'snap apps" on us yet, i. e. standard .deb packages continue to work just fine and probably always will. As long as it keeps doing what I need to do, I see no reason to get rid of it.

MS Office 365 via Web browser: first, that would then require an Internet connection. Second, your data really isn't "yours", if it's in Microsoft's cloud. I'd rather keep my stuff local on my computer and be able to work with it without any company like MS getting in my way of doing that.

[Dragunov]

Every distribution you just mentioned is rooted from Debian.

I'm not a Linux guy, so I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the correction. I started with CP/M, went to DOS, then Windows. I know, I know, ALL of it started in Unix. I've been in I.T. for over 40 years, and I'm not up on the history of software, before CP/M.... I'm ashamed.

[Dragunov]

That was one of my favorite uses for Knoppix, as it would even write to NTFS volumes, if need be, on the newer flavors. Not much need when some machines can reinstall windows 10 In 30 minutes these days on an SSD from a USB stick, and since I do well enough now to not need to do side work it has been a long time since I used it for this purpose.

Agreed! What makes Knoppix useful, is it's ability to copy some critical boot files from a backup, to a dead Windows disk, that's NTFS. Just about any Linux distro, will rescue files off a dead Windows disk. Recently, Mrs. K's computer crashed. I had to install a new SSD, and re-install Windows, but I first had to rescue the files from her dead disk. I actually used Linux Peppermint to do that.

[Marauder2003]

For you PDP folks the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has a working PDP-1.

https://computerhistory.org/exhibits/pdp-1/

And for you big iron folks they have 2 working IBM 1401s.

https://computerhistory.org/exhibits/ibm1401/

[vino68]

Yup. That separates the real IT folks from the noobs. Choose the right tool for the job. Sometimes Linux, sometimes Windows, sometimes IRIX, sometimes BSD.... pretty much never Mac.. HAHAHAHAHA

So true, so true.

[HecklerNKoch]

I'm not a Linux guy, so I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the correction. I started with CP/M, went to DOS, then Windows. I know, I know, ALL of it started in Unix. I've been in I.T. for over 40 years, and I'm not up on the history of software, before CP/M.... I'm ashamed.

Don't be. I try to explain to people that I.T. is very much like construction work.

An electrician may never see a plumber's job, but they fall under the construction umbrella.

An ironworker and a concrete finisher use entirely different equipment.

What it ultimately comes down to in "the real world" is what you end up doing for the company that's right in your checks.

There is some high paid people in it that do not know how to program because the job does not necessitate it.

There are even many more highly paid software programmers that would have an extremely difficult time connecting a router and a few managed switches.

[MrFancyPants]

There is some high paid people in it that do not know how to program because the job does not necessitate it.

There are even many more highly paid software programmers that would have an extremely difficult time connecting a router and a few managed switches.

Yeah, the bummer is most of the time software engineers get paid considerably more than system admins/engineers. I was helping a QA guy at my current company resolve some issues with his VM environment, and needed some very basic info about the network configuration, and all I got was "I don't know." OK I guess I'll have to find out for myself, what are your admin credentials?

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