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

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: 1) by Moggy on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:22AM

    by Moggy (5383) on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:22AM (#206709)

    Out of curiosity how are you finding E19?

    I'm currently running F22 myself and have been considering trying it out. E17 under F20-21 was never *quite there* so I've been holding back for now

    As for main distros - started with DOS/VMS/CPM moved through all Windows (excl vista & ME) and have been Redhat / Fedora /CentOS since RH4

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  • (Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:52AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:52AM (#206728) Journal

    I can't speak for AC here, but I used to have a laptop with Bodhi Linux, which used E17. It was a little rough around the edges, but way better than the venerable E16. I emerged (well technically cave resolve'd) E19 on Gentoo. The eye candy is mind-blowing. They've really done a lot of good work with creating a GUI library from the ground up. Everything is smooth and, for the most part, just works. It's a bit intimidating because of the sheer configurability. I think that's ultimately why I stuck with XFCE—perhaps I'm not ready for Enlightenment!

    • (Score: 1) by Moggy on Thursday July 09 2015, @02:40AM

      by Moggy (5383) on Thursday July 09 2015, @02:40AM (#206744)

      I agree E17 eye candy is amazing as well as lightweight - but had too many glitches that I couldn't get around given that I use this machine for work.

      Just tried out E19 - even better but it froze the entire desktop when trying to configure screenlock and mouse bindings. Will play around further when I have time. For now am sticking to Gnome3 - resisted it for the longest time since Fedora21 I've found it quite usable - and F22 workflow is quite smooth

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:15AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:15AM (#206753)

        I put some time to stumble upon the right autoconf flag, but once configured it rocks. I resorted to building the whole thing myself as I could not find it correctly packaged. For me, the killer feature is virtual desktop unliked between screen 0 and 1:ie you can have desktop 0:1 and 1:3. Unlike the traditional 0:0,1:1,n:n.

        I will post my autoconf flags tomorrow

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:41PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:41PM (#206946)

          first I export:

          CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe  -ffast-math -march=corei7-avx"
          CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"

          for emotion_generic_players :

          ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr  --with-vlc

          for efl

          ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr  --enable-systemd   --enable-egl    --enable-xinput22 --enable-scim  --enable-v4l2 --disable-wayland --with-opengl=es --enable-harfbuzz  --enable-xine --enable-avahi

          I force opengl=es because I have an Intel GPU and the es driver seems stabler...

          Elementary and Enlightement do no require special flags. I disable composite effects because they screw up with Eclipse popup menu and that's about it.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:22PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:22PM (#207069)

        Oh I forgot to add: about your freezing desktop disable the option called "Don't composite full-screen windows" I don't know what is the purpose of that option except to create problems with Chrome and Java.

    • (Score: 1) by UncleSlacky on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:59AM

      by UncleSlacky (2859) on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:59AM (#206878)

      You might want to check out the Moksha desktop (fork of E17) that will soon become the default for Bodhi. E19 is just too "heavy" for many old machines that really fly with E17 (including my Asus eeePC 701 4G). Wife & kids all run Mint Cinnamon (they're much better equipped than me) and I have MX-14 running on a 2001-era Gateway desktop (800MHz Celeron FTW!).

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:51PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:51PM (#207013) Journal

    Apparently, you're a Fedora guy - but Debian Jessie has E19 in the repositories now. Fact is, I've always been a distro hopper, and in recent years, I've hopped wherever Enlightenment had the best support. I landed on Sparky Linux, after leaving Sabayon, after - - - well, you don't want my entire history here. Long story short, I realized only last week that I've been on Sparky for two years now. Maybe it's time to turn in my Distro Hopper's card?

    E19 may or may not be deemed "quite there" - for my purposes, it fills the bill. Two years, with a dist-upgrade somewhere in the middle, taking me from E18 to E19, without a hitcvh.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:18PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:18PM (#207067)

      I am a Fedora guy only because the server I work with are REHL based and I don't like having to switch from Redhatism to Debianism during my workday.
      Some years ago I was a Debian user as the servers were I worked were Debian based. I don't have strong opinions on distributions nor systemd.

    • (Score: 1) by Moggy on Thursday July 09 2015, @10:02PM

      by Moggy (5383) on Thursday July 09 2015, @10:02PM (#207156)

      Yeah have to admit I am a Red Hat guy but that's mostly because I cut my teeth on linux using it and it's where I'm most comfortable. Not to mention that my job usually entails admin/maintaining RHEL/CentOS

      I have played with most of the major distros, but haven't followed progress of them. Admittedly I got put off Debian back when Sarge was released for some reason which escapes me now, and I never liked Ubuntu. Might be time to take another look

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