Iām a Mint user for pc home, i canāt leave easy add of app source, also use Windows at Work.
Pretty cool, itās a good fork of Arch
having a great hardware detection
iād tried Debian Wheezy and Jessie on my Mac before and Debian was just a pain in the ass to install on Mac.
Manjaro have very slick performance and is highly configurable too.
My mom installed it by herself twice.
XFCE is barely heavier than LXDE on RAM.
You could also use the blackarch repositories on Manjaro.
One darkside; the GUI upgrade-manager;
often you need to kill pamac and upgrade over the CLI
root and home + my external backups are encrypted with LUKS
but my VirtualMachine partition is not encrypted.
Whatās a Desktop? Just kidding!
Lubuntu mainly with VMs of many others including Solaris and xBSDās.
On Lubuntu 15.04 with current stable Kernel and Libressl on main workstation.
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After many years of being an archer (~7) Iām on F21 since last December when it came out. I must admit I miss the flexibility, minimalism, clean design and overall fat-free approach of Arch Linux but to my surprise I find myself quite comfortable running Fedora. In fact it feels thatās a distro with the focus on sysadmins
On my home server I run F22 Beta and at work I use CentOS/RHEL on our projects; however by corporate policy my own workstation is an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ā¬Ā¬
Both my laptop and my NAS are Btrfs-formatted, LUKS encrypted and SELinux enabled.
My desktop everywhere consists of i3wm-gaps (a fork of i3 to show some space between tiled windows) + i3blocks (splendid status bar extender) + j4-dmenu-desktop (cool dmenu replacement) + quickswitch-i3 (bringās Vim functionality to manage app windows, quite handy) + Compton for some eye candy + tmux (how to live without it) + Fish shell ( itās not POSIX compliant) + Emacs <3 + nm-applet for a handy managing of my VPNs: https://i.imgur.com/0JHMVyf.png
My /etc directory, valuable ~/dot{files,directories} and some of my documents are managed with git + private repos at Bitbucket.
I need to check git-annex in depth when I have some spare time and find a good clipboard manager tooā¦
Please let me know when you find it.
I liked diodon on ubuntu. Iām experimenting with GPaste on Fedora, not bad, but I still canāt grasp it.
I use many different āworkstationsā here for different purposes, but I have a Mac-Pro I do most of my daily work on. I really, really like Linux Mint 17, and itās not so resource intensive that it canāt be installed on older Windows boxes that came with XP or the dreaded Vista. For workhorse server machines Ubuntu-server and CentOS are hard to beat.
As I fix computers and do small scale networking for a living, I like to experiment with different flavors of Linux and other OSās.
Reliability-wise, I think my Mac-Pro tops the list. Itās a first generation Intel-based Mac (2006), and I have had almost zero problems with it in the 6 years Iāve owned it. Thanks to a ātime-machineā backup, I was able to restore a failed HDD a couple years ago in less than an hour, and lost none of my data. That was the one and only failure since I purchased the machine. Unfortunately, I canāt upgrade past OSX 10.6.8, since Apple in their infinite wisdom decided to make OSX Lion unavailable for upgrade anymore, and the machine is supposedly too old for anything past that. But, Iāll just keep using it till it wonāt run anymore. It damn sure beats ANY version of Windows by a mileā¦ and I was an avid Windows user until I got this machine. Now I only keep a few Windows boxes around for compatibility sake, for my customers.
Dave Land
Land Computer Service
Did you know there is a version of Mint Linux for Macā¦ well the Power PCās anyway? I have a MacBook G4 with MintPPC 9.2 on it. I donāt know if theyāre still updating it though. I donāt use that machine too much.
Are you speaking about my iMac at home?
I have already mentioned that I am a big fan of SUSE (openSuse and SLED) ā re post: SLES12 based Nethserver implementation?
I have had experienced of most distributions (and probably all main-stream distros - eg Suse, Debian, Slackware, Arch, Red-Hat, Gentoo etc.) but prefer RPM based installs.
As far as desktop GUIs, I like KDE / QT a lot (have been using KDE since version 3) but also found that a lot of my clients / end-users prefer to use Mate (I really dislike Gnome 3).
I also like the Enlightment and XFCE projects (also I should mention the terminal / console and ncurses based projects such as Midnight Commander and Yast.)
I am still a user of WinXP as a OS for games and entertainment software (such as XBMC)
Iām testing currently centos7 on a dell E6510, quite fine, it looks funā¦Iām Fed(ora) up ā¦ at the end I will return to Debian, let me just one month
Debian win! Stable, testing or sid?
I do love stability, I just want to work : my $debian = $stable->get(āJessieā);
Iām on mint just beacouse iāve no more time for sid
I use Mint, but I confess that it runs in VMbox on my Win7 desktop.
Hi @filippo_carletti,
I finally settled for CopyQ: it probably has more feature than Iāll ever need but conversely has some goodies that the other alternatives lacks.
May be you could find it useful too!