Linux users and/or developers?

I'm an evangelist, i am forcing my wife to use at least Ubuntu for her daily stuff at home (fb, some chat, some news, lots of shopping, lots of shoes...)
It works...9 out of 10 logins are on the linux partition. Unless she learnt how to cheat logon
My wife can use most things I throw on, they all end up running Gnome anyway. But in this instance she needed some specific Word functionality which was not available in Libre Office and I could not be bothered messing around with Wine to get Word going.

I'm going to put Linux back on at some point as I occasionally use that machine rather than my work Mac. Problem is the CPU does not support virtualisation so I am unable to run a VM to use docker/lxc etc, I need to run it natively on Linux.

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My wife can use most things I throw on, they all end up running Gnome anyway. But in this instance she needed some specific Word functionality which was not available in Libre Office and I could not be bothered messing around with Wine to get Word going.

I'm going to put Linux back on at some point as I occasionally use that machine rather than my work Mac. Problem is the CPU does not support virtualisation so I am unable to run a VM to use docker/lxc etc, I need to run it natively on Linux.

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If win is needed,I always have a dual boot for her. Or even a virtualbox vm, but she then loses herself between the host and the guest

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Been running many different distros since 2001, mainly Mandrake when it was da bomb, but have for many years settled on Ubuntu after a shorter period with Debian. Now running Ubuntu Mate on my old X220 Lenovo and it runs like a charm.

Parents are also running Ubuntu and have for years. Since I told (!) them to let me install Ubuntu I've never had so little support time when visiting them - it just runs and runs and runs.
 
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Been running many different distros since 200, mainly Mandrake when it was da bomb, but have for many years settled on Ubuntu after a shorter period with Debian. Now running Ubuntu Mate on my old X220 Lenovo and it runs like a charm.

Parents are also running Ubuntu and have for years. Since I told (!) them to let me install Ubuntu I've never had so little support time when visiting them - it just runs and runs and runs.
Mandrake, takes me back. I started using Linux on a very old version of Suse. Then moved on to Melissa followed by Debian Testing branch. I then moved on to Pardus Linux (fantastic distro, this is the one I was a package maintainer for) and then bounced between Debian, Arch, Solus and Ubuntu. I had a small period using Mandriva but never got on with it.

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I always think of trying it, but then I realise I have to go to work and cannot dedicate days to everything compiling.

A good trade off is FreeBSD as it has both packages and ports. So best of both worlds.

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Just tried sometimes a bsd derived,never found it any better than linux,so I've stuck to the penguin.
What intrigues me is snappy. I need to find some time and try out disk usage and performances,but sounds promising.
 
the error is booting from the usb...comes to the black text box with you boot options select the top one to try it..then error

even updated the bios to see if that did anything...nope

edit the top line for acpi=off...same error..just hangs

intel i5 8gb ram...same usb...boots straight in and away we go ...happy days
 
Has anyone ever played with Gentoo? I always have a vm ready for those days in which I hate myself and search for a redemption :)

I used Gentoo for a while on a laptop, It was very geeky and I loved it, unfortunately it encourages messing and I'd break it ... often. Never tried it in a VM. I sense a project for work Monday
 
I've been using Ubuntu for many years with some Debian (and of course Raspbian) in between. I like Mint too! But I can't go full time Linux at home for various reasons (gaming being one of them).

Being a sysadmin in a completely Wintel environment I love how refreshingly space age Linux always feels and the fact as a professional in the IT field (who is comfortable within Windows), it keeps me on my toes and out of my comfort zone. Would love to work with it professionally one day.
 
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