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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 24th Apr 2011 00:57
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I've literally just finished setting up my Arch distro (you get a kernel and some base tools to start with and that's it) and it's all running pretty nicely - Steam + TF2 included Feeling pretty proud with myself seeming as I've come from a sheltered Ubuntu install for the past year or so.

I was just interested to see what other distros other people were running... fire away!


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PAGAN_old
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me and a friend are trying to install a custom install of free BSD on our web server. 2 days so far no sucess yet. if we actually pull trough with we will be more hardcore than any linux user

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Neuro Fuzzy
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I'm running arch. ATM I'm trying to setup vim+code completion for Java code editing, because I haven't been able to get eclipse to find the right packages :\

Also... dude... pagan. You keep bashing linux and holding freeBSD up on a pedestal. porque?


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Phaelax
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Posted: 24th Apr 2011 03:20
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Quote: " if we actually pull trough with we will be more hardcore than any linux user"


except my friend who's been running that for years already

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 24th Apr 2011 04:50
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Quote: "except my friend who's been running that for years already

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your friend is hardcore
But is he more hardcore than my friends friend who has 20 year experience administrating servers running BSD and other Unix based OS?

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ionstream
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FreeBSD is just another OS. It's not hardcore. It's not badass. It has the same basic frontend/shell as Linux and its no more difficult, so you'd barely be able to tell the difference.

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PAGAN_old
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i saw this on the internet. i thought it was an appropriate funny for the tread.

Quote: "How to solve a problem in an operationg system:


Windows:

Step 1- Restart.

is the problem fixed?
No? then move on to step 2

step 2- Reformat the harddrive, reinstall windows, loose all your data.
Quietly cry.


Apple:

Step 1- Take it to the apple store.

is the problem fixed?
No? then move on to step 2

Step 2- Buy a new Mac, get a negative balance on your credit card.
Quietly cry.


Lunux:

Step 1- Lern to program in C++. Recompile the kernel. Construct your own microprosessorout of pieces of silicone lying around in your room. Reload the distributives. Recompile the kernel, but this time use percisley broken beams of focused light eminating from the planet saturn to power your microprosessor. Grow a giant beard. Curse Sun Microsystems. Turn your bathroom into a server room and spend the next 10 years in there, falling asleep with the
noise of case fans in the backround. Reload the distros. Reject any form of personal hygene. Write stuff on the internet which makes other programmers cry blood. Learn to code in Java. Recompile the kernel again (but this time you are wearing your lucky socks!)

is the problem fixed?
No? then move on to step 2

Step 2- Go back to using windows or mac.
Quietly cry.

"


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SH4773R
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What's the big problem with windows? Id like to see all you linux and bsd users play crysis, crysis 2, far cry, or even halo for that matter. Give poor old windows a break.


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PAGAN_old
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thats exactly what i am saying.

but the thing is i really love how the unix OSs work and how they are orgonised, and how you can custom build your own if you can and the orgonised architecture of the OS allows for easy logical trobleshooting (unlike windows which you just poke around randomly in places to see if you got it) I also like the whole open sourse architecture, and how instead of searching for downloads on the internet, you can download port libraries, which have a link to every piece of software for linux and just this entire open sourse infrustructure. But the problem is. People like us here cant really use linux for stuff we like to do, because most of the big software we use like 3d modellers, game engines, photoshopand direct X are supported in windows only.

(and please dont say wine... just dont say it please!)

I thought if only all the stuff we love in windows was supported by unix OS. i would gladlyswitch to lunux OS. or at least. if only, windows OS was more structured like nix and you could build your custom windows distro. (well you can, there are tins of custom windows distros, but windows isnt designed for this and it usually comes out buggy).

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Who's bashing windows?

I just like the CLI
There's tons and tons of code devoted *just* to managing windows. If you want to program a CLI application, it's allll about functionality. With stuff like regex/shell scripts/whatnot, you can do relatively complicated tasks easily.

I'm actually going to setup triple-booting win7/snow leopard/arch linux, as soon as all the software gets here (here being my house).


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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 24th Apr 2011 13:31
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Quote: " Id like to see all you linux and bsd users play crysis, crysis 2, far cry, or even halo for that matter."






Done. Next point?

Really you have to look at their prospective uses. Many people do not care for Linux because they don't understand how it is so powerful. Your average desktop user is not going to be missing anything from Linux that Windows can't already do - but you're average developer would be extremely lost without it. I love the modularity of Linux!


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Indicium
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I have Ubuntu 10.4(?) dual booted with Windows 7, I never really use Ubuntu though, I use Visual Express stuff too much.

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SH4773R
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Let me rephrase my post:
I'd like to see all you linux and bsd users play crysis, crysis 2, far cry, or even halo at a speed equal to windows. Things like wine slow things down.. alot


My software never has bugs, it just develops random features.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 24th Apr 2011 21:19
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Quote: "But is he more hardcore than my friends friend who has 20 year experience administrating servers running BSD and other Unix based OS?"

He's barely in his 30s, so I'd have to say no unless he used BSD at age 10. (which for him might be possible)


To answer the original question, I run Linux Mint.

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 24th Apr 2011 22:09
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pretty much. Well iwas wrong by 5 years. he actually has 15 years of experience with BSD. And why is it so surprising that they would start getting into BSD at around 10? i knew another person from school in US. a hundu guy who started getting into it around 12 years old.

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SH4773R
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I use ubuntu a little, started when I was 11, using windows ever sence my 7th birthday.
Im not a linux hater or advanced user, I just like windows better because I guess im better at using it.


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Quote: "i saw this on the internet. i thought it was an appropriate funny for the tread.
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The oatmeal?
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mm0zct
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I'm going to ignore the childishness present earlier in the thread and simply summarise the dostro's I use and what for:

(Self Managed) Work desktop: Fedora 14
Laptop: Fedora 14 (seamlessly upgraded from 13). (Dual boot win7 for games and windows dev)
Provided work desktop: Fedora 13 moving to Scientific Linux6 over summer.
Old laptop: Fedora 12 (Was 6 for a long time). (Dual boot winXP)
Home desktop: No linux currently except a Centos or Fedora 12 VM and andLinux. Runs winXP. Used to dual boot Fedora but recent hardware issues have left me lacking boot select.
Netbook: Ubuntu 8.04, dual boot winXP

It might also be worth mentioning that every windows installation listed also has cygwin installed.

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