Linux users and/or developers?

My Debian pc dual boots with Win 10 just so I can use Google Sketchup for 3d print design.

Currently have 26 raspberry pi running a flavour of Debian. Developing various useful projects on them.

PS. It may be more by the time you read this :)

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abj said:
Linux user since 1999.
No windows or Mac computers.
Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu variants and Linux Mint are my favorites.
Xfce and MATE are my favorite DE's.
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I started using SuSE in the mid-90's. As a techie, I had fun trying loads of distros* over the next few years. I settled on Arch for personal use in 2004 and the rooted Samsung ARM Chromebook I'm typing this on has always run Arch. My Intel laptop (server/torrents) runs Arch but when my S-i-L gave me an old Sony Vaio to wipe the hard drive and recycle, I loaded Mint and sent it back with a load of games for my four-year-old GS (that was two years ago and he still plays on it most days).

Have to agree with Xfce - after my experimental years were over, Xfce has been my choice for over a decade.

* including Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, Yoper, Fedora, CentOS, Puppy, Knoppix, Tiny Core, Slackware, a couple of BSD distros
 
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I was introduced to Linux in the late 90's, but been my primary home OS for the last 15ish years. Despite having been a developer, I like an easy life and prefer Kubuntu, however it didn't play nice with my Lenovo convertible laptop, so running Ubuntu
 
Bit of old thread bump but yeah - I'm developing on MacOS, web designer/developer, using JavaScript, python, bit of php.

My home machine is running Windows but also have a Kali Linux on usb stick, and raspbian on my raspberry pi
 
Bored this afternoon - took a 10 year old stinker of a HP laptop and loaded Linux Mint.

Not a techie, nor have I ever used Linux before. Couldn't have been easier. It's up and running, and I'm looking forward to learning about the OS.

I'm a big fan of old Thinkpads Think I will buy a cheap model, upgrade it within my skill set, and load Mint. This HP is not a keeper - the screen is knacked - just want to have a go at loading the OS & have an extended play.

Is this another rabbit hole along with DE shaving? ;)
 
I used to do this with my old laptops. I started with Ubuntu but moved to Mint because of the codes and other licensing support and general user-friendliness.

I found a very old windows tablet in the back of a cupboard recently and it wouldn't boot Windows. Installed Mint but couldn't get it to boot (would always boot into EFI rather than the GRUB menu whatever I did with the BIOS boot order) but that was a first for me as never had issues in the past.

These days I have a very cheap mini pc which came with windows 11. If its hardware lasts to the point when windows 11 becomes too bloated or is no longer supported I'll be sticking Mint on there.
At the moment no intention of dual booting it with Mint as it's all working and I don't want to have any unexpected issues.
 
My first distro was Red Hat in 1995. Soon after that I found that DEBs handled dependencies better than RPMs and have been running mostly Debian-based distros since.

At work we use mostly Windows, but also a mix of CentOS and Ubuntu. I avoid Apple computers as much as I am able, though everyone else in my immediate family has one.

My personal laptop is currently running Arch Linux, and I have probably tried at least a dozen different flavors of Linux and BSD over the years.

I worked in software development for close to two decades and have written code in so many languages at this point, it's difficult to recount them all.

I also have a fair amount of experience in other IT realms, such as wired and wireless networking, database administration, and cloud providers.
 
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