Anyone Linux users out there?

[notabitail]

Hey, I've got a chicken called Abigale, too. And I also use linux pretty much 90% of the time. I only have one machine that still has windows on it, but it's already dual booted and it's only a matter of time before I kick it off the ssd completely.

I have arch on my school laptop, ubuntu dual booted at home, and debian on my 32 bit laptop that I really only keep going because it pleases me to maintain older hardware.

Same here. I only use Windows for jailbreaking my old iPhone 5s and a few other things.
I have a whole bunch of 32 bit computers.

 

[notabitail]

Puppy Linux Bionic on one.
Ubuntu Mate and Mint on another
Ubuntu Studio on my music server.

Nice.
I'm planning to switch my Nana to Ubuntu Mate soon.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Same here. I only use Windows for jailbreaking my old iPhone 5s and a few other things.
I have a whole bunch of 32 bit computers.

I work for a big tech company which shall remained unnamed but suffice it to say that my employer sees Linux as the red-headed step child.....

 

[Shadrach]

Nice.
I'm planning to switch my Nana to Ubuntu Mate soon.

I've been very pleased with it.
I haven't had Microshite Doors on any of my machines since Windows XP.

I use Puppy Linux for my day to day stuff.

 

[notabitail]

I work for a big tech company which shall remained unnamed but suffice it to say that my employer sees Linux as the red-headed step child.....

And Microsoft, Google, and Amazon use Linux. Meta probably does as well. Not sure about Apple.
I wonder if they allow penguins in their office.

 

[notabitail]

I've been very pleased with it.
I haven't had Microshite Doors on any of my machines since Windows XP.

I use Puppy Linux for my day to day stuff.

XP was the only decent thing Microsoft ever made. Windows 7 was so boring I shattered it. Windows 11 was pathetic.

 

[BeefQuesoritto]

Kinda grinds my gears that so many distros are dropping 32 bit support. I mean, I guess it's bound to happen that it's dropped eventually. I'm an IT student and currently work for my college's IT department as a student hire, and we've got stacks and STACKS of old 32 bit machines that aren't used for anything. Kinda kills me that these otherwise useful machines just sit on a shelf, taking up space when they could be in the hands of a broke college student who just needs to write essays and look at an internet browser.

My classmates all seem to perceive linux as scary, and it's so sad. I've been pushing to have a small linux lab on campus to try and encourage its use.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I haven't run a linux desktop for a minute, but my preferred WM is Enlightenment. I have to use a windows laptop for work, so it's all mtputty / ssh. At home, I run a windows battlestation with multiple testbed vm's running on virtualbox. (right now rocky 8 and 9, and an f37 install I haven't put a whole lot of time into at all yet). Works better for my use cases that way because I need windows for all of my photography and art project stuff (adobe creative cloud doesn't run on linux natively and video encoding in a virtualized windows instance in linux SUCKS.) Plus gaming is less hassle on windows. Fileserver is cent 6.9 right now while I wait for those drives, and I have a pi-hole inline between the cable modem and the house switch.

"Back in the day" when I was dong less management and architecture, the only windows box in the house was my gaming rig. As I've grown in my role over time, I'm more of a "right tool for the job" kind of guy these days. I still prefer linux for anything internet facing, but I'm not opposed to leveraging other operating systems for their strengths to get the job done right.

 

[azurbanclucker]

And Microsoft, Google, and Amazon use Linux. Meta probably does as well. Not sure about Apple.
I wonder if they allow penguins in their office.

APPL and Meta use linux. Since Apple dropped their X server line and got out of the datacenter space, they leverage linux bare metal and cloud providers for their footprint. Corprorate locations and their product dev teams still use macbooks, macstations, et al. Meta has been on linux since almost day one.

 

[notabitail]

Kinda grinds my gears that so many distros are dropping 32 bit support. I mean, I guess it's bound to happen that it's dropped eventually. I'm an IT student and currently work for my college's IT department as a student hire, and we've got stacks and STACKS of old 32 bit machines that aren't used for anything. Kinda kills me that these otherwise useful machines just sit on a shelf, taking up space when they could be in the hands of a broke college student who just needs to write essays and look at an internet browser.

My classmates all seem to perceive linux as scary, and it's so sad. I've been pushing to have a small linux lab on campus to try and encourage its use.

It makes me sad too. Even sadder when I heard about those computers. You can't just ask them if you can have them? Maybe tell them about all the ewaste that they are creating, and the positive impact those computers could have on someone's life.

Keep pushing Linux! I'm always trying to get more people to use it. With the increasing price of computers, Linux is obviously a good option for someone's ten-year-old laptop.