whos running nix on their main desktop?

[ConradJones]

So whose running NIX on their main desktop?

 

i've recently switched my main work PC to opensuse 12.3 from windows and i'm surprised how much more productive i've been. the last straw for me was changing the resolution of one of my monitors and windows blue screening.

[CyberNerd]

I've been running various linuxes on my main work PC for the last 8 or so years.

I recently decided I'd start learning how to use windows 7 and installed that after having some problems with printers that I really couldn't be bothered to fix.

Now I get a BSOD everytime I try and use the USB to serial connection over putty and spend ages looking for software to do trivial things that I expect my operating system to be able to do. I think Windows 7 is ok, it's just not very stable and lacks any useful tools that sysadmins need. I'll give it another month or so and switch back to something more productive.

[kmount]

Yup, been running Linux for ~15 years now on my main workstations/laptops.

 

Wife has a windows PC for those times as when it's truly needed, and I have a virtual Windows 7 instance for supporting customer systems etc.

[ConradJones]

I've been running various linuxes on my main work PC for the last 8 or so years.

I recently decided I'd start learning how to use windows 7 and installed that after having some problems with printers that I really couldn't be bothered to fix.

Now I get a BSOD everytime I try and use the USB to serial connection over putty and spend ages looking for software to do trivial things that I expect my operating system to be able to do. I think Windows 7 is ok, it's just not very stable and lacks any useful tools that sysadmins need. I'll give it another month or so and switch back to something more productive.

 

I make a point of buying machines with proper serial ports, I searched for about a month to find this laptop I'm typing on, HP machines at work I buy all have proper serials.

 

Serial to USB convertors are terrible, barely work and then you get a different one that is blatantly the same device but someones modifiyed the firmware so the vendor // device id is different and the drivers are signed so you agghhhhhh..

[CyberNerd]

Worked fine on Linux. Problem seems to be that MS don't write any working drivers.

[ConradJones]

Worked fine on Linux. Problem seems to be that MS don't write any working drivers.

 

windows is only any good when vmware or linux is managing the hardware for it.

[CyberNerd]

I do mostly treat Windows as middleware for servers.

[Chris_]

windows is only any good when vmware or linux is managing the hardware for it.

 

Do VMware have a Linux client for vSphere?

[synaesthesia]

If it wasn't for gaming & my wife, I think I'd be linuxing on mine. I used to dual boot but these days it's just not worth the hassle for me

[ConradJones]

Do VMware have a Linux client for vSphere?

 

vmware workstation. you can manage the vm's just not the hosts

[ConradJones]

zimbra client acutally works with exchange. imap but what ever its better than OWA.

 

might setup a zimbra server alongside the exchange and compare, have to do aliases in exchange to forward to zimbra for the zimbra users.

[CyberNerd]

 

might setup a zimbra server alongside the exchange and compare, have to do aliases in exchange to forward to zimbra for the zimbra users.

 

I did this a few years back (2005 IIRC) at the time Zimbra was way ahead of exchange for functionality and ease of use. We've ditched them both now and have Google hosted email which is *significantly* less admin time for me.

[ConradJones]

its definately going that way, at the end of the day you don't get any thanks for running it, only grief when it doesn't work.

[Stark]

I have been running primarily ubuntu/mint and fedora the last couple of years, I have to dual boot for things like itunes as the hassle is too much to get that stuff running for me through WINE, serves me right for buying an iPhone there, enjoying being different too when it comes to my machine.

 

[ConradJones]

WINE is nonsense most of the time, you could run that in a vm and pass thru the usb device.

[Stark]

Aye I know, just rl means now that I can only manage 1 hour a week outside of work on my home machine to have time to do these things :-)

[JaSauders]

I've ran Linux on my desktop since 2005/2006, or somewhere around there. I built my first computer and was super excited about it. I was working at a miniature golf course through school and had no money once I was done buying the parts. Needless to say I was a little depressed about the fact I couldn't afford a Windows license... My cousin suggested I try Linux, as he swore by it. I have since been on Linux since then on all of my systems. My wife, mother, and aunt run Linux as well. It's been a very solid experience for all of them as they've had less issues with maintaining the systems, which makes me happy since I'm so damn busy these days that to manage family systems every few weeks is asking a lot.

 

At my place of work (school district), we've incorporated a truckload of Linux systems on the desktop (well, laptop). We currently have 1,600 units and will be obtaining 1,700 more by the year's end... all Ubuntu. I love what I do.

Edited May 20, 2013 by JaSauders

[JJonas]

Been running Ubuntu at home and at work for a while now. So much more stable than Windows

[mac_shinobi]

Does OS X 10.7 count ( it is unix certified as of 10.5 I believe ) ?? lol

[ConradJones]

Been running Ubuntu at home and at work for a while now. So much more stable than Windows

 

mint on my laptop. not a big fan on HUD

[cpjitservices]

I want to implement an all Linux solution here on our desktops, but its locking it down and getting roaming profiles to work, aside from that I run Linux on everything I can run it on. Usually Fedora for desktop and CentOS for server.

[jinnantonnixx]

Ubuntu (with Unity) for home machines. Pretty much perfect for laptops.

 

Going to experiment with OpenSuse at work, with a virtual Windows 7 for all the things I can't get working in Linux, whatever they turn out to be. Not sure how that will pan out, but we'll see what happens. This will be handy as we use quite a few Linux servers at work and I use Cygwyn for SCP and SSH at the moment.

Edited May 21, 2013 by jinnantonnixx

[DanielRF]

I use Ubuntu at home, and installed it on various family members PC's. I've been using Debian then Ubuntu at home now for around 15years since a neighbor installed it for me, from a stack of zip disks. In the work place we have a couple of Debian servers running, but nothing mission critical. We have also handed out a few XUbuntu CD's with old PC's staff have taken home.

[jinnantonnixx]

Well, my experiment with Opensuse was a disaster. Never mind.

 

I tried Debian 7 and that was very good, but Gnome 3 was a bit of a handful for a corporate dual-monitor desktop. I could have tried a different DE, but I've settled with Scientific Linux 6.4 and so far so good.

 

Scientific Linux is a version of RedHat Linux, similar in many ways to Centos (and binary compatible) but more usable out of the box. It's made by Cern labs, hence its name, but it's a general purpose Linux, so don't let its name put you off.

 

I found a slight glitch with Samba inasmuch as the gvfs plugin only works with the older Samba 3 not Samba 4.

 

All in all, it's a solid release and the Gnome 2 is a welcome blast from the past.

Edited May 28, 2013 by jinnantonnixx

[tickmike]

I have been using PCLinuxOS for about 8 years on all our home machines including 6 test machines, NAS and my daughters laptop, windows if ever wanted is install in 'virtualBox' and my wife's tablet is powered by 'Jellybean' android.