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What Distro Do Soylentils Use?

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-the-fire-extinguisher-ready... dept.

Subsentient writes:

I'm wondering what Linux distros my fellow soylentils use, and why.

I myself have loved Fedora since version 7, and never cared much for Debian systems. My desktops either run Fedora or a source-built XFCE system. What distros do you use, what architectures, and why do you use them? Are there any distros you wish were still around?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday July 08 2015, @11:35PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Wednesday July 08 2015, @11:35PM (#206661) Journal

    Gentoo with XFCE (hobby projects, movies, youtube, serious business) on the gaming rig, dual booting Windows 8.1. I find the tile start menu thinggummy good for launching games (and useless for all other activities). Windows 7 at work due to poorly written proprietary software.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:47AM (#206694)

    There were few people running 7. Why did the number surprise you? Because of 8 and 10? Everything works on 7. Nothing annoying on 7. And, unfortunately, there are many critical pieces of software that business professionals need that break on anything but xp, vista, and 7.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:37AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:37AM (#206766)

      It's just a shame that so many people do not value freedom.

      • (Score: 1) by tftp on Friday July 10 2015, @12:43AM

        by tftp (806) on Friday July 10 2015, @12:43AM (#207208) Homepage

        It's just a shame that so many people do not value freedom.

        Perhaps it's because those who shame others are living in commercial apartments, eating commercial food, working for a business, visiting commercial doctors, and using commercial Internet to tell everyone else how bad is everyone who uses commercial software.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2015, @03:03AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2015, @03:03AM (#209772)

          Straw man. The problem is not with price; it is with freedom. By using the word "commercial", you try to imply that the issue is with price. Proprietary software infringes upon the users' freedoms, and that is why it must be rejected.

          You are dishonest, and you also used the tu quoque fallacy.