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I have been using linux for 10 years as a only OS! I think linux is mature! What do you think?
Linux as an alternative family of OSes is dying and almost dead. Linux as a shiny and works "out-of-the-box" corporate OS that competes with Microsoft and Apple has been born and is currently teething.
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jmgibson1981
Seemed like every single day I had to fix something, regardless of whatever distro I was using at the time.
That would make sense if you were using a system that required the user to do everything, but ...
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On the *buntus I had trouble with themes not loading about half the time on fresh boot. On OpenSuse I had trouble with the hostname staying how I set it, no amount of googling gave me answers. On CentOS7
It is interesting that you have problems on beginner distributions designed for Windows users who only know how to point-and-click and on rock-solid stable systems like CentOS. Without any details of your situation, the only question that comes to my mind is what the hell were trying to do?
that said, the main reason for me is that linux enabled me to use machines discarded by others, because they're "too slow, too old".
i have never bought a new piece of hardware, thanks to linux, and i'm proud of it!
... that and customisation, which has grown into some sort of hacking/scripting/coding hobby... plus the whole personal security/privacy thing. but these aspects only came along after the first one.
My "old Dobbin" ... *sniff!* "but its disk-drive lives on ..." ... was originally sold with Windows-95, and even with that, it wasn't much. Or so it would seem ...
Until I discovered Gentoo and somewhat-painfully taught myself to build a Linux that was specifically tailored for its hardware. The machine started from-cold in about ten seconds, and it felt positively speedy.
I felt much the same way, a long time ago, when I first encountered an IBM mainframe compatible box ... an Amdahl system ... that was running their UTS Unix natively instead of IBM's clunky MVS (nee "Z/OS"). It was unbelievably fast, as such a machine of course should be, when those tons of cruft were lifted off of it. Positively a pleasure to work with.
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