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This thread is dedicated to those of us who migrated over to Linux from another operating system and never looked back. Or those of us who took in Linux from the start and couldn't see ourselves running any other operating system. If you enjoy running Linux so much, this is the LTT Linux hangout place for you.

 

Feel free to discuss whatever about Linux that your heart desires. Post screenshots of your desktop and information of your setup or even a guide or two to help people enhance their Linux experience. There is tons upon tons of content that can be discussed here.

 

Note: This is a "fan club" not a "fanboy club" so do not treat it as such (leave bashing Windows and OS X at the door).

 

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I switched over to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS about two weeks ago from always running Windows. I've tried 10.10 and such in the past back when Gnome 2 was the thing. I never really could grasp it and the kernel back then wasn't as hardware friendly as it is now (Linux has been getting a lot of attention as of late). Personally, the longer I use Linux the more I see not a reason to go back to Windows. The only task that is missing is my Windows programming. Which is easily resolved through a virtual machine thanks to VirtualBox. About a week ago I finally figured out how to install and configure Conky. It was a tedious task but was so worth it. I must of spent hours learning all of the variables and what not through their documentation. You can see my outcome in my desktop screenshot below (I used CONKY-colors for the icons).

 

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That's my setup, I don't game much but I do run a few little games through WINE to keep me busy when there's ultimately nothing left to do (including posting here on LTT). Personally, the freedom of altering your desktop environment any way you like has made Linux one of the best looking desktop operating system there is. I have wobbly windows plus window transparency enabled for the terminal and nautilus. The best thing I like about Linux is no matter how much I try to break it, there's always a way of fixing or reverting the issue.

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I run Linux or Windows in my computers, depends of what I want to do.

 

For Linux I only use Slackware, Slax, Porteus and OpenELEC. :P

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I run Linux or Windows in my computers, depends of what I want to do.

 

For Linux I only use Slackware, Slax, Porteus and OpenELEC. :P

I use to play Battlefield 3 a lot which bound me to Windows. Once I got that game out of my system there really wasn't much holding me back that I couldn't do on Linux.

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I used to use Windows 8.1 / Linux Mint. Within the past week I changed that to Windows 8.1 / Arch Linux (using Cinnamon.) I love Linux but games are important to me. :)

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Well my brother got gifted a netbook, the first thing he did is installed Ubuntu on it and dual booted with windows, since then he got a laptop and then I kept it and it has gone through; Ubuntu, Linux mint, lubuntu, elementary os, arch and puppy Linux. Right now is my backup running lubuntu 14 and it is really refreshing using Linux and it is not really hard to use like many people say, though there will always be compatibility issues because it is a less used os.

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ASUS F1A55-M LX, AMD A6-3500, (2x2)gb Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 1600mhz, Seagate Barracuda 500gb 7200rpm, 
 Corsair CX430M, Cooler Master Elite 343, Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

Netbook:

Lenovo Ideapad S10-2, Intel Atom N280, (1x1)gb DDR2 667mhz, WD Scorpio Blue 250gb 5400rpm, Zorin OS 9 Lite
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I have used Linux in the past and I loved it (the stability, the speed, the free-ness etc), but unfortunately there aren't any video editing software that support hardware acceleration (OpenCL).

Using Ubuntu in school though. 

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I have used Linux in the past and I loved it (the stability, the speed, the free-ness etc), but unfortunately there aren't any video editing software that support hardware acceleration (OpenCL).

Using Ubuntu in school though. 

Lightworks has hardware acceleration.

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Lightworks has hardware acceleration.

Tempting... I might replace my Kubuntu VM with a dual boot

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I used to own a MacBook Pro with Mac OSX on it. Liked it very much. It was a good computer, and when it broke, it was during the finals. I couldn't afford a new Mac, and didn't have the time to sit back, take my time and pick a new laptop based on pros and cons because there were so many to choose from. I had an old first generation iMac G3 sitting at home, gathering dust (yes, this was in 2011, so it kind of would be), and by this time, OSX no longer runs on these things. I did what I had to. I installed a PowerPC version of Ubuntu and liked it very much. Problem was It didn't recognise the screen right away, so my very first experience with Linux was the joy of trying to add the display modelines to the Xorg.conf file. Not a good start. It was also painfully slow on the aging iMac. It lacked the GPU acceleration for the GUI, and the poor 233 MHz G3 processor could barely handle it.I had to start looking for alternatives. Back then the most lightweight but still user-friendly distro was Xubuntu, which I ran on the machine for 2 months. Using this, the machine was able to browse the web like it never could before with Mac OS 9.1. It was fast enough to stream MP3's (barely), but could not playback video. Modern video compression algorithms are no match for the puny G3. Some time passed, and eventually, as always, when I needed it most, it broke. I still have it, but its analog board needs to be replaced and I can't be bothered yet. I bought a Dell L702x to replace. I had never extensively used Windows before, so I decided not to bother with it and chose the operating system I still run to this day: Kubuntu. It's the underpinnings of Ubuntu, but with a nice KDE skin on it. It is endlessly configureable, much more so than Unity or XFCE. On modern systems it's such a small performance penalty that the GUI has all the bells and whistles. It needs patience though. It looks boring out of the box but you can make it do anything you like. With the help of QTCurve, it's as perfect as it gets for me.

 

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I've no idea why the world is afraid of 3D-printed guns when clearly 3D-printed crossbows would be more practical for now.

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Tempting... I might replace my Kubuntu VM with a dual boot

One thing to note tho after reading through their documentation, Linux kernels 3.13 and up sort of break Lightworks (14.04 and up). You need to run an older distribution with a lower kernel (e.g. Ubuntu 13.10). I'm curious have you ever given Ubuntu Studio a look? OpenShot doesn't look as powerful as Lightworks tho. It more looks like the Linux version of Camtasia Studio.

 

Edit: Here's a list of more editors.

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One thing to note tho after reading through their documentation, Linux kernels 3.13 and up sort of break Lightworks (14.04 and up). You need to run an older distribution with a lower kernel (e.g. Ubuntu 13.10). I'm curious have you ever given Ubuntu Studio a look? OpenShot doesn't look as powerful as Lightworks tho. It more looks like the Linux version of Camtasia Studio.

 

Edit: Here's a list of more editors.

 

Thanks for all the info... I'll have to try them out.

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Anyone know which tiling DM is good nowadays? I used ScrotWM a.k.a SpectrWM with Archbang a couple of years ago but switched back to Window after i got my gaming PC. Since i have an extra 80GB SSD in the stash, i'm planning to install Archlinux and use Tiling DM back simply because i love the simplicity.

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Anyone know which tiling DM is good nowadays? I used ScrotWM a.k.a SpectrWM with Archbang a couple of years ago but switched back to Window after i got my gaming PC. Since i have an extra 80GB SSD in the stash, i'm planning to install Archlinux and use Tiling DM back simply because i love the simplicity.

I believe XMonad might be what you're looking for.

I cannot be held responsible for any bad advice given.

I've no idea why the world is afraid of 3D-printed guns when clearly 3D-printed crossbows would be more practical for now.

My rig: The StealthRay. Plans for a newer, better version of its mufflers are already being made.

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Aah, finally a haven!

 

I've been running LInux as my daily driver for a couple of months but there's been various Unix based computers close to hands for a very long time. At the moment my goto system is Arch Linux accompanied by i3 as my window manager. I was a bit skeptic to the whole tiling window thing but I soon realized that I was already tiling manually - I will never look back!

 

This is my current setup:

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I usually don't run archey but I fired it up to show the specs.

Linux: The operating system with a CLUE; Command Line User Environment.


 


❤ Linux ❤

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Anyone know which tiling DM is good nowadays? I used ScrotWM a.k.a SpectrWM with Archbang a couple of years ago but switched back to Window after i got my gaming PC. Since i have an extra 80GB SSD in the stash, i'm planning to install Archlinux and use Tiling DM back simply because i love the simplicity.

I would so much recommend i3! It's pretty much the same as Xmonad but you won't have to learn Haskell in order to use it. 

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im running mint 17 and loving it iv been running mint sense version 9.

a good tip for new people duel boot your linux box with some other linux as a backup system this has saved my bacon a few times.

my back up linux distro is elementary os luna.

 

 

here is my mint 17 desktop.post-142539-0-46571000-1415485880_thumb.

 

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here it is with some firefox windows up

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Brony for LIFE!!!

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LOL i read Linus not linux but hey i love ubuntu too

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Nice to have a dedicated Linux thread.  I'm running Ubuntu GNOME 14.04.4 on my Pavilion G4. Topic Bookmarked :)

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Nice to have a dedicated Linux thread.  I'm running Ubuntu GNOME 14.04.4 on my Pavilion G4. Topic Bookmarked :)

Could you throw me a benchmark?  :)

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My hard drive with Kubuntu :( crashed yesterday. 

So I think I will have to redownload the Linux versions of Witcher 2, CS:GO, Dota2 and Faster Than Light. There goes my data cap...

 

Will probably wait until I can afford a Samsung 850pro before installing Linux again. Want to see it at it's best. Also think I am going to switch to SolydK.

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My hard drive with Kubuntu :( crashed yesterday. 

So I think I will have to redownload the Linux versions of Witcher 2, CS:GO, Dota2 and Faster Than Light. There goes my data cap...

 

Will probably wait until I can afford a Samsung 850pro before installing Linux again. Want to see it at it's best. Also think I am going to switch to SolydK.

Can always pick up a cheaper drive, the MX100 line is rumored to be extremely dependable for cheap. You can get a 256 GB drive for around $110 vs $119 for 128 GB Samsung 850 Pro.

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GUIs, get on my level:

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No, that is my file server. Running ubuntu server 14.04.1 LTS x64. I currently dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.10 on both my laptop and desktop.

Personally, I can't live without a few pieces of software:

 

Document Processing:

TeX Live and TeXStudio - I do a lot of reports for my mechanical engineering labs, make all your documents look professional.

WPS Office (formerly Kingsoft) - WPS Office basically is there for MS Office compatibility, LibreOffice just doesn't cut it sometimes.

 

Virtualization:

Linux-KVM - Whereas VirtualBox is a Type 2 hypervisor, this is a Type 1 (arguably) hypervisor, as close to as bare metal as you can get.

Virt-Manager - To manage all your guest machines.

 

Web Management:

Webmin - Perfect for remotely administering your server/NAS from your network.

 

Media Server:

Plex - Perfect if you need on the fly encoding to numerous devices, smart TVs, tablets, and other PCs.

Serviio - The runner up to Plex, on the fly transcoding to numerous devices

 

P2P: - Just don't get caught :P

Transmission - Bittorrent client, lightweight

SABnzbd+ - "Binary Newsreader" basically, a download client for usenet.

 

Games:

Steam - Steam game client, duh!

MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, for playing your favorite arcade games, so long as you can find a rom dump...

MESS - Multi Emulator Super System, an all in one emulator package for various systems, great for playing older games (this is the equivalent of DOSBox for linux)

Console Emulators - Basically the entire list in the post, anything from your old atari 'woody' and Commodore 64, all the way up to the Wii.

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Didn't know the thread even existed. Looks like I got alot to read up on :3
Mods: If your reading this, please pin this thread up on the first page. This brings all the Linux users on the forums to one spot.

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