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I was toying around in the OS earlier on a virtual machine, was just wondering if anyone uses this as their main OS? I don't know much about it yet. I was using Linux Mint Cinnamon the latest version I believe. 

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NOPE! Tried it & got board after 5mins.

Yeah, I mean it seemed cool and all, but I thought why would I switch? I couldn't think of any compelling reasons why I would switch from Windows to Linux, or even a reason to use it on a 2nd machine. I heard a lot of people like it, I'm not sure what's so good about it. But I only messed around in it for a little bit.

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I have been running Ubuntu 14.04.1 as my daily driver for a couple of months now.

What do you think of it?

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What do you think of it?

If you are not a hardcore gamer (tho Steam does have 1000+ Linux games from indie titles to some AAA titles) nor need to run proprietary Windows only software (there might be an open source alternative for) then honestly in my opinion there is no reason to run Windows at all.

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But I only messed around in it for a little bit.

 

Well there's the problem.

 

If you put as many hours into Linux as you have windows, then you'd understand.  Learn the file system, edit .conf files, write your own scripts....etc.  It keeps getting awesome.

 

I forced myself to use Linux exclusively for a month.  I only used Windows to play a couple of games (BF4, USF4, TITANFALL).  Other than that, I find a way to make things work on Linux.  It's not for everyone though.

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I have been using linux, not for a long time, maybe say... ~2 years. I really like it's filesystem directory hierarchy, it just makes sense, the placement of files is just so good, and the fact that most (if not all) operating system configuration can be done by editing plain text files.

Being able to configure and build my own linux kernels with custom drivers and patches is just so invigorating when you get to feel the performance differences from doing so. It just feels like my computer, like nobody else can fuck with it.

Also, software is usually a non-issue for me too, everything I would usually use on a windows machine has open source alternatives that perform better or have cooler features.

There's also really fucking cool open source software that I would not have ever heard of before that allows me to transform the ways I do things on my pc. 1 example is livestrreamer which allows me to watch twitch streams in VLC without laggy flash :)

I believe I heard a metric the other day that steam now has over 20% of it's entire library running natively on linux, which is phenomenal. 
In my eyes all that we (collectively; linux) need, is for steam to hit a majority saturation of linux compatible games and the Adobe creative suite to be ported to linux and we're set. Everything else will follow suit at that point.

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I like ubuntu work purpose. I3wm is the greatest piece of software ever.

 

I'm gonna sit the fuck down and teach myself i3 one day. Not today though.

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I'm gonna sit the fuck down and teach myself i3 one day. Not today though.

I3 Best thing ever. Will change to linux if parallels makes parallels for linux. 

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When I was into tinkering with music production I found I got MUCH lower latency with a custom real time linux kernel than windows could ever get close to touching.

My wife was once my test subject and let me install ubuntu on her laptop.  She used it every day for almost two years without complaint (or viruses and malware) until her new chrome book got delivered.

Steam on linux is huge.  I sold an older, cheap gaming PC to a buddy of mine and threw LXLE on it, just to give him something to use until he figured out which Windows to put on it.  Dota 2 via Steam and League of Legends via PlayOnLinux and he's thinking of keeping his windows money in his pocket now.  

Linux = good stuff!

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I used Ubuntu for 2 years as my daily driver for school and work. I love the terminal and when I learned some commands it made my live so much easier and faster. But it has it's drawbacks like every other OS.

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I use Kubuntu (14.04.01 or similar (whatever 14.04 LTS version)) on my desktop and Lubuntu with LXDE on my laptop (crappy 4 year old Asus with lipstick-on-a-pig SSD and Wifi upgrade). I also have a Win 8.1 gaming machine that gets very little uptime recently (well 140 watts on desktop vs 18 on my three screen Kubuntu machine which is silent). Dual boot was an experiment of mine for a few months but I never used the Linux partition (Mint) and so I build a second machine just for work and I have not regretted it since. Monitors have dual input (although the middle display will be on a hdmi splitter if the DVI-HDMI Cables arrive from china sometime next eternity).

 

I like the ability to choose your desktop environment. KDE works out of the box very well with 3 screens. I have yet to get myself into the activity thing of KDE. I use linux for about a year now and I am slowly getting the hang of it (well of ubuntu for a start, have not dipped my toes into any other branch just yet). Haven't grasped the startup scripts of ubuntu yet so there is a lot to learn.

 

The Command Line open source tools are really great. SSH'ing into my mothers old eeePC (brought back to life with - you guessed it - linux) and fixing stuff without having to leave the chair: priceless. Plus I do not have to deal with the adware and stuff that comes with free software if you are not careful.

 

I admit: the learning curve is steaper than in windows and sometimes you have to spend some time on a minor feature that had a simple GUI interface on windows. But getting near to the nitty-gritty of the OS is not a bad thing.

 

I sometimes game on my linux machines using whine or dosbox. The newest game I play is Jagged Alliance 2, which is form 1997. Source Engine games work like a dream though. 

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I'm running xubuntu on my laptop.

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I got a couple of them on some HDDs. Linxu Mint, Ubuntu and Elementary OS. They were engaging, fun, sleek, fast and awesome. I switch to Windows when I play the games that aren't available or playable in WINE. Otherwise, Linux > Windows so yes, I use it as my main. :)

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