[POLL] Which Linux Distro and Desktop are you using? (Only 2 Questions) Thanks!
http://pollmill.com/f/what-is-you-ma...mgahm.fullpage
You dont have to sign up or anything I'm just curious. Many Thanks! |
Dude, you have *BSD listed as GNU/Linux.
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Re Ubuntu; its very popular (recommended) for newbies/those who want a more MS experience (but apparently Mint is even better).
Its less so for experienced uses eg see people's profiles on the left here. |
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I think new users and ex-windows users would feel more at home with mint than ubuntu. It also looks a lot better in my opinion. Arch is the only way to go for me at the moment though. |
Over 600 people have taken the survey so far. You can see the results here
http://pollmill.com/f/what-is-you-ma...m/answers.html |
Couldn't participate, because there's really no distro or desktop that I use the most. I multi-boot, and use various DEs and WMs.
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Also I like Mepis and Knoppix, but mainly for live sessions, when I need them.
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Personally, on a regular basis I use Fedora (all versions) with Gnome 2, CentOS 6.3 with Gnome 2, and OpenSUSE 12.2 with XFCE. These are all on different machines, and by FAR my favorite is OpenSUSE with XFCE, in fact none of the other systems are even a contender. I've also used Ubuntu a decent amount, and found it absolutely atrocious. Mint is decent, for an Ubuntu-based distro. CentOS and Debian are good for what they are, stable server distros, but when it comes to daily usage they start to fall down in many aspects. KDE 4 is avoidable, and Gnome 3 is an abomination in my opinion. |
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I used Fedora for a very long time, and always faced problems with updates. Everything would be fine, then I would "yum update", and one of the updates would break something. For example, I once "yum update"'d two of my Fedora machines, and instantly all of my CIFS remote mounts on those two machines died. Nothing I did would bring them back up, then about 6 days later another "yum update" fixed the CIFS libraries and my remote mounts popped back up. If you've ever seen people post about how Fedora is an "experimental" distro for RHEL, there you go... On the flip side, my CentOS and Debian machines are SO slow to implement updates and bug fixes that they face the opposite problem. For example, my desktop PC at my office runs CentOS 6.3. Every couple of months, it starts to give me errors when I try to open new terminals. In fact, here is the exact problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667539 It's been going on for YEARS, yet Redhat (and by proxy CentOS and ScientificLinux) haven't responded to it at all. Notice the dates on that bug report...first reported January 2011, then closed August 2012 not because the problem was fixed, but because the distro that it was first reported on became obsolete. This is the problem with server distros, they're so incredibly slow to respond that if you do encounter an easily solvable problem (in fact an ALREADY SOLVED PROBLEM), it's not going to be fixed for years to come. In comes OpenSUSE. In my experience it's the happy medium between the 2-3 year old server distros (Debian/RHEL/CentOS) and the .0001 year old experimental distros (Ubuntu/Fedora). Things just WORK, and they work well. In fact the only problem I've ever experienced with my OpenSUSE systems has been when trying to install a rolling-release update (11.4 to 12, 12.1 to 12.2, etc). This is admittedly buggy, however this can be avoided very easily by: 1) backing up the existing system 2) install the new system 3) restore any backup files that contain config files that are needed to restore functionality (namely the files in /etc/ and /home/). |
I was wondering what the results would be, but my colour vision isn't good enough to make head or tail of your pi charts!
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If you hover over one of the pie charts a menu pops up above the question title which allows you to switch to a table view. You can click the columns to sort. Not the best UI but it works. |
Ah! Interesting results, presumably influenced by where the participants came from. Arch second to Ubuntu was rather surprising, and Xfce second to KDE says something about Gnome.
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The thing I found most surprising was mageia got hardly any votes but is second on distro watch. |
Why did you decide against a poll on LQ?
I may take a look at your poll when I have a PC in front of me but it seems odd to take people off-site dor a poll and it may influence the outcome. |
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Interesting results. Okay, so what happens if a person clears cookies, starts a new browser session, and votes again?
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Done!
Mine is Debian + Gnome 2 :) |
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My most used distros in order of how oftem I use them are
1-Ubuntu 2-OpenSuse 3-Slackware 4-FreeBSD My Desktop environments in order of what I prefer 1-Gnome 2-KDE 3-LXDE 4-Unity Distros I wish to use but I have nothing to install them in are 1-Arch 2-Debian Desktop environment I would like to try 1-Xfce 2-E17 3-IceWM That's it! |
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i3 is (for me, of course) the best of the tiling WM's, if you prefer manual tiling.
Sadly, it is not on the list and since I use it exclusively I can't vote for any of the other DEs/WMs, so note votes from me on your poll. |
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E17 is the default graphical interface in Bodhi Linux and it looks really nice, I dont think the user has to do too much to it. I once tried Xmonad and I think it would required some used to. Other than that is all fun. |
My choice, Debian and Gnome
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Its great to see that Arch ranks right next to Ubuntu. I think you posted this link on an Arch forum.:doh:
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Why can't we all just go back to "command line" only days :)
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Mageia 3 Beta & Gnome 3
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Currently using Debian Sid with XFCE on both my desktop and netbook. I do occasionally boot into Slackware on the desktop though, again with XFCE, and I keep using Ratpoison on the netbook now and again.
I'm always playing with other distros in VMs but I've yet to see anything that makes me want to switch. Not that the other distros don't look good, because they do, I just tend to stick with what's familiar. What always strikes me nowadays is how many decent distros there are out there and how easy Linux is to install. It's a far cry from when I first moved to Ubuntu from Fedora due to dependency hell when I was first getting into Linux. |
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Mageia 2 + Xfce.
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