whos running nix on their main desktop?

[twin--turbo]

Got about 7 Linux boxes running at home including our two main laptops

 

Rob

[mac_shinobi]

Got about 7 Linux boxes running at home including our two main laptops

 

Rob

 

What Linux distro's??

[twin--turbo]

Ubuntu 12.4 on the two laptops

Ubuntu 13.10 on the MythTV

Fedora on the VortexBox Music Server

Sles 10 on the file server

Debian on the RaspBMC

Ubuntu something on a test box..

 

the test box, file server and Vortex are all on vMware ESXi

 

I also have a ESXi host in a rack in a business center with 1Gb internet and running a Ubuntu install of ISPconfig... Costs me nothing at present

 

Rob

[twin--turbo]

Oh and OSX on the Crapple good for cbeebies .

 

Rob

[jinnantonnixx]

I settled on Ubuntu 12.04 after evaluating Debian 7, Ubuntu, Opensuse and Scientific Linux.

 

I use Thunderbird mail client with Davmail as an interface to the Exchange servers. I use the 'Lightning' Thunderbird calendar add-on for my Exchange calendars. (DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway - Thunderbird calendar setup)

 

I use Unity on my home latop, and it's pretty well perfect for that. However, Unity was good, but there were a few glitches with the workspace manager which i didn't like. I installed Gnome3 and Docky. Together these make an excellent environment.

 

I use krb5-auth-dialog to get Kerberos tickets so I can browse without authentication pop-ups.

 

Virtualbox for the many Windows test systems I use.

 

Remmina for RDP/remote sessions.

 

It's nice to use a native console to SSH into our Linux servers.

 

I've moved from Gnome3 back to stock Unity. There were a few annoyances with dual screens in Gnome3. I subscribed to oibaf's PPA for video drivers and everything is rosy. Unity has had some stick, but I find it superb for home and work use. It just works with no fuss.

[PrAe]

I've been using GNU/Linux on all my main desktops (work, home) since 2000. Half of the school desktops use it as well.

[featured_spectre]

got a VM for redhat here, using it to test things out, and did have fedora running for a while at home.

[Poults]

Recently bought a new laptop with Windows 8 installed but couldn't get on with it so took the plunge and flattened it and am going to use Ubuntu only. Did have it dual booted on my old laptop but only used Windows for flashing mods etc on my phone. Now i have learnt to use ADB so i do it all via command line.

[llawwehttam]

OK Here goes....

 

My Desktop - Archlinux

My Laptop - Archlinux

My Home Server - Archlinux

My Work Laptop - Windows 7 Pro with Archlinux in Virtualbox and GNUwin32 installed.

My Mum's Laptop - Linux Mint

My Sister's Laptop - Linux Mint

My Sister's Old Laptop - Ubuntu

 

I've been using Archlinux as my main distro for several years. Before that I've used Fedora, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu and several others.

 

The only Machine in the house I have yet to convert is my Dad's laptop.

 

At work I mainly work with RedHat, CentOS and Scientific Linux although there is a good deal of Windows as well.

Edited February 18, 2014 by llawwehttam

[JaSauders]

Since I replied last to this thread, we have introduced nearly 2,000 more Ubuntu laptops to our network, bringing the total number to about 4,000, which very easily constitutes the vast majority of our infrastructure.

 

I've also stopped tinkering with elementary OS as some of its 'design limitations' felt a bit hindersome to me. My wife and mother still use elementary OS and love it, but I've decided to give Ubuntu another clean and clear shot with 13.10, and so far I've found myself thoroughly enjoying it. Once I got in the groove with how Unity works, it really showed me how nice of an interface it is and how efficient you can get things done. Granted, this is just my perspective though, everybody's mileage varies.

 

For me, Linux has always been the key component that ties everything I do together. The particular distro and desktop environment is often up for question, but so far, Ubuntu and Ubuntu based derivatives have always been a top choice. I'm pretty okay with that.

[jinnantonnixx]

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I've also stopped tinkering with elementary OS as some of its 'design limitations' felt a bit hindersome to me. My wife and mother still use elementary OS and love it, but I've decided to give Ubuntu another clean and clear shot with 13.10, and so far I've found myself thoroughly enjoying it. Once I got in the groove with how Unity works, it really showed me how nice of an interface it is and how efficient you can get things done. Granted, this is just my perspective though, everybody's mileage varies.

 

For me, Linux has always been the key component that ties everything I do together. The particular distro and desktop environment is often up for question, but so far, Ubuntu and Ubuntu based derivatives have always been a top choice. I'm pretty okay with that.

 

I echo this. I keep coming back to Ubuntu and Unity. I also find that Unity is a superb interface, it's a launcher and docker in one. I've tied my middle mouse button to the workspace switcher so a middle click shows a nice expose of virtual desktops, then right-click to zoom into the desktop I want. This is really handy when working on multiple projects (which is all the time).

I've tried all sorts of DEs, from the Flux/Openbox type to Gnome3 and KDE, but I find Unity the most efficient interface. Gnome 3 came close, but I had to install Docky to get what I wanted. The permanently hidden app bar was a pain, too. But that's just my opinion. For me, Unity simply hits the sweet spot in terms of efficiency, speed and design.

 

I use 12.04 LTS in work, and 13.10 at home (after running the Fixbuntu script - the online lenses spun me out).

Edited February 19, 2014 by jinnantonnixx

[seawolf]

I've used Linux from the early days when there were only Debian, Redhat, and Slackware and their early derivatives. Mandrake was my favourite distro back in the late 90s for ease of use. For the past 5 years though, I've pretty much stuck to Ubuntu, which I think is the best all around mainstream distro that's come down the pipe. I've toyed with other distros, but I keep coming back to Ubuntu and Ubuntu or Debian are all that I use for my servers (minimal VM with no GUI that is) with the exception of one SUSE server that I didn't have much choice about.

[wbasdtech]

I've been using it for years, but as of recent I've been stuck on Arch (Antergos Specifically). Once you go rolling-release it's hard to go back.

[ozydave]

I know this is an old thread.

I’m 3 weeks into dumping WIN 10 as my main OS, I wish I had done it a long time ago!

 

Just curious if any of you bother joining your linux machine to the windows domain?

 

Cheers

[interele]

All our Linux machines ( 350 + ) do their logins via a LDAP server so we can hot desk

[jinnantonnixx]

I know this is an old thread.

I’m 3 weeks into dumping WIN 10 as my main OS, I wish I had done it a long time ago!

 

Just curious if any of you bother joining your linux machine to the windows domain?

 

Cheers

 

'realmd' is the easiest way to join AD. Basically install realmd then connect with a single command. It walks you through it.

 

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-join-a-linux-computer-to-an-active-directory-domain/

[Sonica]

Yep, to using Nix. ..

Just curious if any of you bother joining your linux machine to the windows domain?

Nope never, I've banned it from my life completely along with candy from Mozilla - no need to use any kind of third party web-browser ever - not when any package I could possibly want is one pkg_add command away... On top of which I used to use Linux a lot over a period of many - many - years and I've enjoyed the rides it taken me on like finding all nVidia graphics cards in one release that will remain nameless suddenly refused to work because the guy maintaining the mainline distro purged the drivers from the data-base with no thought for the hundreds of users using it. It may take you a few years but you'll eventually realise that GNU/Linux is maintained by Clowns.. Proof = https://linuxclowns.github.io/ an if you want a real OS then you need specific hardware and specific chips that you may have trouble finding at a nice reasonable price considering the way it's all going at the moment. But it is out there if you know where to look and can find a decent deal instead of paying a ridiculous sum like 8 grand. £200 quid is more my price range along with open firmware and no evil Intel ME! Linux has it's uses, but then you should always check which ones are endorsed as being actually FREE by the EFF and it's ok for Liberating you and your mom's laptop but that's where it's usefulness ends and you find yourself drawing a line in the sand when your Hardware expects to be Debugged with some SPI flasher because some massive tech firm is waging a private war on it's users at the same time as telling them that they love them!

 

It is certainly not the case that end users need to sit there and listen to google telling them what to do, but it is certainly the case that they should listen to other Unix developers telling them what to do...

 

Such as running this firewall setup...

 

https://github.com/GMG-Special-Projects-Desk/GoodbyeBigFive

 

Banning Microsoft, Apple, Google, AWS - anything with Cloud Service in it and anything remotely to do with buzz words like AI.

 

Then they might actually get some work done, not having to click bot-net authentication scripts and having to listen to there phone ping every-time they try to use two factor authentication presented by a company who's policy is advertising driven drivel!

Edited March 19, 2021 by Sonica
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[ozydave]

Nov 2019, I moved to Linux as my main work desktop and laptop. Have I missed Windows 10, NOPE.

 

As I do more in the Linux terminal, I'm finding I'm doing more in Powershell when I have to touch a Windows box.

 

I've had a Ubuntu server running DNS in a separate network for non domain devices. It's been rock solid for 5 years. Never turned off in that time apart from the odd reboot due to updates.

Why can't windows DNS be like that.