How do you use Linux?

Geeky_Kid · 12-22-2003, 01:52 AM

Hi,

Am just curious to know how do you use Linux. This is not a success story post. I want to know how/where/why do *you* use Linux?

sorrodos · 12-22-2003, 02:11 AM

Welcome to LQ, Geeky_Kid.

I use Linux in my dorm room to write code in and also for anything else I need my computer for besides Windows-only games.

So lets see... I use Linux for...
-Writing code
-surfing the web
-IM
-email
-hosting HalfLife/Counterstrike/Specialists servers
-File sharing
-Remote access via VNC
-Samba network filesharing
-Writing documents
-Spreadsheet
-Probably more that I am forgetting

So, I use Linux for nearly everything.

johnleemk · 12-22-2003, 06:23 AM

I use Linux for everything except DirectX games(because I couldn't get WineX to compile). I hate dependency hell, though. I can't wait to try Debian out on my new computer next year. Then I won't have those annoying dependencies screaming at me any more, and no more cases of installing software that's incompatible with each other.

jharris · 12-22-2003, 06:46 AM

Thread moved to a more appropriate location.

cheers

Jamie...

trickykid · 12-22-2003, 07:59 AM

We really don't need another thread asking this when we can contribute to the other thread that has now over a thousand replies and posts: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=20679

Closing this thread and redirecting members to contribute to the existing thread.

Regards.