Linus Torvalds uses fedora
 

This must mean that fedora is a pretty good distro for a hardcore technical person. You obviously can't get more technical than the guy who wrote the kernel.
So what I was wondering was why some people use more "core" distros like slackware, arch, gentoo, centos, debian, etc which are less user friendly than distros like fedora and opensuse?

I want to know purely out of curiosity. If you do not like this thread/question, please remember than you have the freedom to go ahead and ignore it.

You know, "someone I admire uses it" is not generally a good criterion to base a technical decision on.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/s...nt-management/

I use Slackware, but I started using said distro before I began to admire Pat Volkerding :p.

As far as I'm concerned Slackware is user friendly, and I use Slackware because it does not get in my way of doing things, it doesn't try to automatic or be overtly complicated. That to me seems like a good example of what user friendly should be defined as.

Yes but what is it that these core distros offer than more mainstream distros can't offer?
A n00b like me has no way of knowing. I'm just curious.

Of course you have a way of knowing. You can install one of those distros and try it out.

Well is there something that these 'core' distros don't offer? What exactly is it then?

I can use my 'core' distro (Slackware) as a desktop as well as any Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, etc user can.

What does core distros offer that mainstream ones don't? A good trouble free working system. Lets see exactly how Ubuntu or Fedora stacks up against a core distro such as Slackware, or for that matter Debian?

I'm basically a ubuntu/mint user. I tried fedora the other day and that was a distro which was hard for me to use. It took over an hour just to get my wireless adapter to work. With ubuntu, all I have to do is go to "hardware devices" and click on a button. Fedora doesn't even have a "hardware devices".
I can't imagine how I would go about using something like slackware.

Then I think you've identified one thing that you can get from a "core" distro that you can't get from a "friendly" distro: confidence that you can pick up any other distribution and start using it.

Who told you that Slackware, Arch, Gentoo, CentOS, and Debian are not "user friendly"? That's preposterous!

This says to me that your wireless adapter is not Linux-friendly, not that Fedora is not user-friendly. :) Why not ask your hero Linus why his kernel does not support your device? ;)

Alright, you may keep that assumption with you, And who told you that Linus uses ONLY Fedora for the sake of eternity, LOL, and if internet tells you this, God bless you.



Regards

Steve Ballmer uses BLFS... :D

and Kim Jong Il uses Winblows 3.11, so he's a kapitalyst :rolleyes: Lulz

I thought this is what Ballmer uses, :p.

nah... :D LMAO

BLFS is more user friendly than that... :)

WTF, he was already bald in the time of windows 1.0???

Oh wait, he must have pulled his hair out because of windows 1.0...

Linus is one of us and has a personal interest in a few distros and I would think like most of us will attempt to use any distro... even a Mac...
http://www.osnews.com/story/16132/Li...ntel_Mac_Mini/

Linus has also used Ubuntu, I believe. The only distro he's ever knocked was Gentoo: he said he couldn't see the point of one that left you with all the work to do. One has to remember that he's a professional with a lot of work to do, not a tinkerer who wants to spend a lot of time setting things up before he can actually use them.

Linus:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...8&pageNumber=4

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https://www.fossmint.com/which-linux...-torvalds-use/
Distro Does Linus Torvalds Use in 2018

This thread was started in 2010, why reopen a thread that's at least 7 years old, where the last post was on 09-17-10 ???

People have a right to change their mind, we have all done it. If you want to talk about which distro he CURRENTLY uses, why not start a new thread ???

Also, the link you have provided just rehashes more or less what's already been said anyway. So what's the point of your post above ?

linux torvalds is not a distro developer, hence it follows that it is largely irrelevant which distro he uses.
people always forget that in their heated bikeshed discussions.
and i'm pretty sure that mr torvalds quite deliberately drops a mean statement about some distro every now and then just to annoy them.

I've read a little bit about Linus's distro choices and it seems in the past anyway was compromise between two extremes - his own needs, and compatibility with what his family uses. His own needs are very basic compared to most SOHO/Desktop systems. He stated he wants an easy install and good development tools and that's about it. More than most he views a distro as simply a means to an end, a very simple end. Similarly Richard Stallman uses Emacs as his "browser" and very few of us would consider that a viable choice. That Linus is currently using Fedora is just no big deal, indicating very little about it's quality. His usage is not likely your usage and it certainly isn't mine.

They just wanted to necro the thread. No other reason.

BRB: switching all of my machines to Fedora!