Which Linux distribution do you use most frequently?

[chrisretusn]

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Voted Slackware of course.

[Sue]

Wow, I can't get over how many *buntu users there are!

I love Slackware but that's not what they asked. So I answered Arch. That quickly became my second favorite distro.

[Urmas]

All I can say is umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. Can you say umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu?



Voted Ubuntu of course.

[fjgold]

Me too, Ubuntu (Intrepid 64 bit) with PCLinuxOS 2010 Gnome a close second.
Yep I'm a hardcore Gnomie.

Actually my favorite is Win 7 Home Premium

[fjgold]

Wow, I can't get over how many *buntu users there are!

Why not?
Shuttleworth's stated mission is to bring Linux to the "unwashed masses".
I think he's succeeding.

[ReleaseRoderick]

Good heavens....Shuttleworth? Yet more reading and tinkleing to be doing soon.
Looking forward to this....

[Urmas]

Actually my favorite is Win 7 Home Premium

Dude needs to lay off the sauce... he gots wacky bats in the belfry.

[Sue]

Wow, I can't get over how many *buntu users there are!

Why not?
Shuttleworth's stated mission is to bring Linux to the "unwashed masses".
I think he's succeeding.

I wasn't saying anything bad about *buntu, just an observation is all. I know it's extremely popular...it just surprises me every time I see the numbers.

My introduction to linux was with Ubuntu 6.06. After a frustrating week of trying to get my internet connection configured unsuccessfully, I gave up. I've tried other Debian based distros on this computer and none of them like my hardware. I even tried a copy of Mint (8 or something?) thinking that because everyone who's tried it loved it because it 'just worked', it might work for me. Nuh-uh.

So when someone asks me my opinion on a good beginner's distro, I always recommend Mandriva since that's where my positive experience lies.

[Urmas]

Aye... you're <cough> blessed with mighty cantankerous hardware...

But... choice. it's about choice. Choice good. Yay.

[vtel57]

I think we may have to revoke Frank's Registered Linux User number.

[Urmas]

Nah... we need to revoke Frank's POS Ati graphics chip.

[vtel57]

He seems to have become re-assimilated into the MS collective. I bet Patty at C-haven is thrilled.

[fjgold]

Good heavens....Shuttleworth? Yet more reading and tinkleing to be doing soon.
Looking forward to this....

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/biography

http://video.golem.de/desktop-applikati ... ne%29.html

[fjgold]

He seems to have become re-assimilated into the MS collective. I bet Patty at C-haven is thrilled.

Sheesh, you guys can't take a joke.

BTW, Patty shudders everytime I post over there especially if I mention Linux.
I don't think she likes me much, truth hurts I guess.

[Urmas]

[vtel57]

He seems to have become re-assimilated into the MS collective. I bet Patty at C-haven is thrilled.

Sheesh, you guys can't take a joke.

BTW, Patty shudders everytime I post over there especially if I mention Linux.
I don't think she likes me much, truth hurts I guess.

Well, you were a bit of a thorn in her M$ side over there when I first met you. HAHAHA!

[fjgold]

Still am. I don't spend much time there but Urmie PM's me when a Linux issue pops up
and seems to be getting nowhere.

[Urmas]

... seems to be getting nowhere.

Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

[vtel57]

Hey! That Wittgenstein guy was pretty sharp, huh?

[ChipDoc]

Yeah, but he's been dead over 50 years, so I guess it didn't matter...