Any Linux Users? Technology

[Gromit]

I've been playing around with Linux on and off for a good few years but delved into it more during lockdown. Lets see how many of us there are around. A geeky hobby will likely attract the same kind of people who like geeky hobby operating systems surely?

I'm currently using Fedora 33 Xfce (shortly to be 34) on my PC and Linux Mint 20.1 Xfce on my laptop.

 

[Deleted member 63]

I keep flirting with Linux, trying various distros to see if something sticks but I live and breathe Microsoft at work so I am likely to just stick with Windows until I retire. Interesting that you use Xfce on both your installs. That's my favorite of the Linux GUIs I have tried.

 

[Birdman]

It has been a while since I dabbled with Linux. I started off with Ubuntu 6.06 as a dual boot option to try it out, but after the hard drive failed (along with the Windows rescue partition) I decided not to bother trying to obtain a full copy of Windows and went with Ubuntu as my main operating system. I've since tried a few variations (Mint, Peppermint and a few others). I dropped Ubuntu when they dumped Gnome 2 and moved the window controls to the left, although I understand this is now sorted.

I have since gone back to Windows (work required it), but I'm in a similar situation where the hard drive on my laptop is faulty so I'll probably dual-boot again and see how things go. I'd imagine a fair bit has changed in the time since I last used Linux (2013-ish).

 

[Tom]

A geeky hobby will likely attract the same kind of people who like geeky hobby operating systems surely?

I'm not really sure you can describe Linux as a hobby operating system these days, considering how wide spread and pervasive it's usage is.

I've an old laptop running Lubuntu, works much faster than Windows and never had any problems.

If you look up on You Tube "explaining computers" website there are various guides to installing and using Linux with comparisons. An example, below, shows how you can get new life from an old laptop

 

[Snoops]

I first found Linux in 2010 but been using it daily since 2012, switched distros a few times over the years and currently on Xubuntu 21.04.

I still have a Windows system too but I'm using it less and less.

 

[Deleted member 63]

I'm not really sure you can describe Linux as a hobby operating system these days, considering how wide spread and pervasive it's usage is.

Not sure about this site, but the shared hosting I use for mine is Linux-based. As is a good chunk of the Internet, really. It's a hobby operating system for desktop use, I think. At least I don't know many non-geeks who use it on their desktop. But for servers, it is quite widely used.

 

[Deleted member 42]

I use linux on older hardware that can't handle windows anymore.