Linux sux moist a$$

[dracflamloc]

I prefer my fluxbox with the custom keybinds I made for it

[shik]

I've used linux for about 6 months now. Started on a school where we got forced to use it as their motto is "Opensource is good" or something.


I've been through quite a few different distro's.

Archlinux  - It sucks btw. Shitty packetmanager and it can't figure out it's dependencies
Debian - Nice OS, run it on a webserver at home.
Ubuntu - Use it on my laptop here at school, and i dont really like it. Too much work getting the java compiler to work (will switch back to debian as soon as im done with exam project).
Knoppix livecd.
And some various mods of existing distro's which i can barely remember.


My current opinion is that linux sucks at home, where im using my pc for gaming etc. But here at school it works like a charm, and im getting more and more used to it.

About the gnome vs. KDE thing. I like both but for different things, sometimes the one is better than the other imo. but that differs from person to person.

[LimaXray]

I've been playing with linux since I was a wee little thing.  Now at school most of our lab machines run either Linux or UNIX so you get pretty comfortable with doing everything in a command prompt.  I actually prefer doing a lot of things in a command prompt; I would take building C apps in GCC over Visual Studio any day.  When it comes to running your own machine, the best way to get everything to work, and you can get everything to work, is to figure it out yourself.  You really just can't depend on the various configuration apps that come with most distros today to get everything working 100%.  I mean yeah it's a little harder and not so user friendly, but user friendly is what XP Media Edition is for.   

Linux will run on anything.  It's fairly common to use it as an embedded OS on some fairly simple RISC microcontrollers.  A joke my friends and I have is it can run on a toaster.

I've been running linux and linux alone on my PC for about a month now, and for the most part I'm ok with that.  What proves to me linux is just a far better piece of code compared to Windows is how it handles hardware errors.  Windows assumes everything is working 100% and if there is the slightest hardware problem you have an unhandled exception and that wonderful blue screen of death.  Linux is pretty good at recovering from small errors.  My main reason for running linux is my CPU is fubar; Windows will crash no matter what I do, it won't even begin to boot up before it blue screens.  For linux, I have the thing underclocked 100Mhz and it runs just fine.  Any faster and it will start to become unstable, but whatever, it's still faster than Windows.

I've been running Mandriva which totally blows.  I've been trying to burn Ubuntu on a DVD the past couple days, but my only DVD burner is in my laptop which is now having issues as well.  You know what, I hate computers, I hate them all, I just have the worst luck.

[The Buddha]

Unix is a pain in the ass ... if you're trying to learn ... however once you do learn it ... it will keep you employed forever ... not need to ramp up and learn new technologies every 2 years, no need to compete with 100's of college kids with their java and NT knowledge ... Learn it 15 years ago with no real idea of what I am going to do with it, and the thing is ... it has never failed to find me a job ...
Windows is pretty and friendly, but it will bury you in obscurity cos every freaking bored house wife knows it ... Unix, 1/2 the crap wont work unless you know exactly what you're doing, and its reserved for the hard core geeks ...
Now If you want Job security ... AS400 ... yea baby ...
Cool.
Srinath.

[john]

All of the desktops/workstations at work are being switched over to Ubuntu/Kubuntu (whichever I prefer).  The reasoning behind this is we want to move away from XP and its security holes.  Everybody will use terminal server to do most of their work and for large files use Openoffice locally.

A couple of users have started using TS exclusively in preparation of the change, but many flat out refuse to change.  This is where I will become the most hated person in the company.

I am happy with this in some ways, but see a near revolt from the management team.  The IT manager wanted to switch suddenly, I have suggested mapping out a plan to implement this change and also prepare the users.  I see a number of issues cropping up.  I want to setup a couple of test machines to work out as many kinks as possible before making this leap.

[sys49152]

As much as I love Linux (read the first page of this thread), I'm not sure it's ready for power "business" users.  Have any of you tried to sync up a treo 650 or 700 using USB?  Or tried connecting to outlook / exchange without having the web client enabled (for security reasons)?  Or tried reading an MS Excel spreadsheet in openoffice that was previously password enabled?

I think it could work for some environments, but not all.  I can totally imagine my current office (small web app shop, mix of product and professional services) go Linux all the way, but I couldn't imagine my previous company (Deloitte Consulting) successfully moving in that direction.  You really need to evaluate what you do as a company and then figure out what the best platform is.

Now If you want Job security ... AS400 ... yea baby ...

I don't know.. I have a few friends that are AS/400 wizards and they're having a tough time finding a job.  It was my first tech job, but man am I ever glad I don't have to type the letters "wrkactjob" anymore.

[The Buddha]

As400 and travel go hand in hand, and in the US, have it and security clearance and you're guaranteed a $200 an hour job. Or so I heard from people who may have wanted me to feel jealous ...
Cool.
Srinath.