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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: 2) by cockroach on Thursday July 09 2015, @11:02AM

    by cockroach (2266) on Thursday July 09 2015, @11:02AM (#206916)

    Very much so, i3 is a bit scary at first; it's hard to imagine using anything else now though.

    That feeling of stability that you mention is, for me, also a feeling that somebody sat down and thought about stuff before implementing it. There are indeed lots of knobs in the audio system (and some things that I still haven't figured out) but in general to me it seems better than Alsa. Changing the default playback device is a simple sysctl rather than writing a cryptic asoundrc and AFAIK the kernel transparently handles multiple audio streams even on crappy hardware so there's even less incentive to use dirty hacks like esd, pulseaudio and what not. Maybe OSS on Linux does similar things, I might have to try some day.

    As for gaming, I switched to Linux about a year ago and now the gaming partition is one of my few remaining Debian systems. Of all the games I usually play most have a native Linux version, some need dosbox anyway and only one of them needs to run in wine which has become quite simple thanks to PlayOnLinux. With a somewhat recent distribution the free Radeon driver now performs very well on my hardware; performance is typically comparable to what it was on Windows. That said, I don't play anything fancy, my CPU and GPU are too old for that.

    Still, if you find some spare time you may want to try it, removing that last Windows partition is a great feeling.

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