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Favorite Linux Distro and is it your "Daily Driver"

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My favorite distro is Ubuntu.

I have been using it off and on from 12.04 (Precise Pangolin).

Currently I'm on a HP Windows 7 laptop (2011)  with a Samsung Windows 8 laptop (2013)  which has been decommissioned due to Charger issues.

With future plans on building a primarily Ubuntu system for Animating in Blender maybe doing some other random creativity work with gaming also in mind.

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My favorite distro is Mint 17 with Cinnamon.

Unfortunatly I need Windows as my daily OS; so I use Windows 8.1 as my day-to-day OS.

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Red Hat Linux.   It runs 24x7 so I guess it could be called a daily driver.  But I don't drive it... it drives itself.

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Mint Cinnamon. I don't use as daily driver, I do web development. Font rendering isn't close enough, even with modifications.

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Fedora.

 

No. I play too many games to make any Linux Distro my daily driver. I hope that will change soon.

 

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There is always Wine. ;) 

Even though that too has it's limitations. :/

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Debian/Kali then Fedor/Red Hat, no though I use to use Debian a while but since I've gotten back into gaming/movies I use Win 7 mainly.

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Xubuntu/Elementary OS

 

I use ubuntu server on my scrap home server 24/7

 

Have to use windows 7 for games though

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I haven't used Linux due to the fact it won't run most of my games :(

Only is I've really used at length is windows 7

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My favorite distro is Mint 17 with Cinnamon.

Unfortunatly I need Windows as my daily OS; so I use Windows 8.1 as my day-to-day OS.

I like this post. It's my favorite. :D

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I use Linux Mint Debian and it's running full time on my desktop. I'd run it on my laptop, however it's a school administered. 

I switched to some time ago because I no longer play games, so I'm not really missing much ;)

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Kubuntu and Mint KDE.

But if Debian stable was more up to date distro i would use that.

 

Linux is my primary system but got win7 just for some games.

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Mint 17 with Cinnamon. I love using Mint as a base to configure upon because it's so fast, snappy, and stable.

 

Daily, I use Windows 7 unless I'm on my shittop. 

 

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A lot of limitations.

Yup I tried to run skype in wine and it just crashes. It wouldn't be necessary if the ubuntu version of skype wasn't so outdated and awful. 

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Mint 17, it goes side by side with windows...

 

I personally like PeppermintOS but I wouldn't use it myself...

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A lot of limitations.

For me, Not so many... Like on my build I want to occasionally play stuff like Call of Duty Ghost and Advanced warfare by the looks of it Activision makes it next to impossible to get Call of Duty running on Wine.  Not sure if Rockstar is going to make GTA V easy to run on wine or impossible like Activision.

There are some games that work on linux and will run on wine. Luckily for me most of what I need can be substituted or has a Linux editions... (Like Blender).

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For me, Not so many... Like on my build I want to occasionally play stuff like Call of Duty Ghost and Advanced warfare by the looks of it Activision makes it next to impossible to get Call of Duty running on Wine.  Not sure if Rockstar is going to make GTA V easy to run on wine or impossible like Activision.

There are some games that work on linux and will run on wine. Luckily for me most of what I need can be substituted or has a Linux editions... (Like Blender).

Fair enough.

 

For what I do it has a ton of limitations. Modded Skyrim is one example of that. It becomes insanely hard to mod Skyrim (if you even get it to work.)

 

For me the benefits of Linux over Windows as a daily driver aren't even close to being here. Wine isn't perfect. It can bug out. There needs to be at least 60% native compatibility. The problems preventing that have already been discussed in other threads, but the gist of it is the fragmentation of Linux.

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And Hence I'd most likely end up putting Windows 7, or 9 on a separate drive just for the things I absolutely can not do on Ubuntu/Linux.

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Still using gentoo on the desktop. I'm wanting to move to something less of a resource hog (i.e. no compiling needed) and lower maintenance but I haven't liked anything else enough to replace it. I've started using Ubuntu on some home servers.

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Many good distros out there, but my favourite probably is Arch. Ain't using Linux daily because of my old hardware ( No VT-X / AMD-V = No virtualization support + AMD has dropped HD 2000/3000/4000 series support for Linux ).

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I have Arch on my desktop and laptop.

Ditto.

 

I have a partition for Windows games, but I rarely boot into it. I play GW2 using PlayonLinux and it works well. 

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Have you tried the open source xf86-video-ati instead of AMD's proprietary Catalyst?

I have, but the 3d acceleration ain't as good as it is with proprietary drivers. Well it really wouldn't matter anyway if you'd run Windows on QEMU virtual machine.

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In the end they're all the same, just differnet package manager and default settings. Linux is Linux is Linux.

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​Ubuntu on desktops at home.
Fedora on workstations at work.

​CentOS on servers we administer at work.

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I do have Windows 7 on a computer, but only use it once every few months when i feel like playing a game.

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