Written by brian_houghton on Saturday, May 22, 2010

Question of the Day: Linux?


Question of the Day:  Do you use Linux as your computer’s operating system?

… and if so, which distribution?  In the past, Linus has captured my attention from time to time, having an old desktop machine first running Red Hat and then Ubuntu.  Ubuntu was fun, lightweight and fast, for the most part.  It was enjoyable.

When a consulting job necessitated a machine with a Windows operating system.  As a result my current Toshiba laptop running Microsoft’s Vista was purchased and put my Linux infatuation into somewhat of a vise.

Fast forward a couple of years, and there is something about Linux that is calling me.  So I ask, if I were to explore Linux again what would be the best distro for me to check out?  As noted above, I’ve used Ubuntu and Red Hat, but it’s been a while for each.  Please leave your thoughts in the comments!

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Tagg
May 22, 2010

I play OS roulette on a regular basis and have tried most of the distro’s, I haven’t used an MS product since windows 3.11.
Ubuntu is great, it has the most support and is the most popular.
I’m personally running linuxmint 9, it will run 90% of Ubuntu apps, its definately faster and is stable as I’ve come across. Install is a snap, one of the easiest.
That would be my first choice.
If your more into the tech side, Backtrack 4, it doesn’t have the support that the others do, but it makes up for alot of that with what comes bundled, its not however your basic desktop distro, its not for word processing and spreadsheets, what it is good at is network sniffing and all things networked & programming, its can be a bit tricky on the install and it does its best in bash.
I’ve tried SuSe a few times, if any of your hardware is not plain vanilla the install can be tricky, the software support is lacking to the point of not being worth the effort, stable when its tweaked its still not for neo’s.

bottom line
noobs Ubuntu
moderate LinuxMint
Serious Backtrack


Christian
May 22, 2010

Of course I use Linux! I’ve had Linux Mint as my main OS for year. I haven’t been looking back. It all works. I recently upgraded to Linux Mint 9 and it took less than 30 minutes and it all worked without having to configure a thing: Wireless worked, my HP multi-function printer worked (print, scan and fax) and my cSony camera and Motorola phone hooks up and transfers content without any problems. Why use anythin else?

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