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The PT410X thread: Linux/BSD and Open Source Software for users and beginners!
celticgeek:
I am currently running Mint 13 on my desktop. My wife is using Ubuntu 10.4, and my son is using Mint 13. I am currently running Mint 11 on my laptop, but that's because I haven't gotten around to upgrading yet.
I have used a large number of distros in my time (it should be noted that this list is not up to date).
I spent a couple of years teaching Linux, using Redhat 6.1-6.3 during that period.
I have been using Linux pretty consistently for about 10 years. I do have Windows XP on a separate hard drive, which I only use to download digital media from my camera, since I can't find GNU/Linux drivers to do it.
My current computer is known as gaidhlig, by the way.
I use LibreOffice for any office programs that I need, I use GIMP for working with images, I use gftp for file transfers, I use simple scan for scanning documents, I use SoundJuicer for ripping CDs (and I rip them all to .flac), I use Audacity for recording my music, I use Movie player for playing music and videos, I use gedit for text editing, I use Firefox for a browser, and I have Thunderbird mail that I use with my ISP's mail system.
There, that should qualify for TMI.
ankhtahr:
--- Quote from: celticgeek on 19 Mar 2013, 10:37 ---I am currently running Mint 13 on my desktop. My wife is using Ubuntu 10.4, and my son is using Mint 13. I am currently running Mint 11 on my laptop, but that's because I haven't gotten around to upgrading yet.
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That's what I like so much about Arch Linux. I don't really see the advantages of releases, as the rolling releases system of Arch is working fantastically for me. Most of the big bugs get caught before the packages switch over from [testing] to the ordinary [base]/[extra]/[community] repositories.
I simply type "pacman -Syu" after reading the Arch Linux homepage to make sure there were no gigantic changes in the current packages, and have a nice, up-to-date system.
My notebook is currently called bifrost (I would have called it Bifröst, but I prefer to not use UTF-8 in hostnames…), and I use LibreOffice as well, mainly for school stuff. Whatever I can do using LaTeX I do with it. I much prefer LaTeX's Beamer class over PowerPoint or LibreOffice/OOo Impress. And for ripping CD's I use abcde (a better CD encoder). I insert the CD, type abcde in a terminal, and it downloads all the tags for me, and rips it to FLAC. When I put the music on my mobile I convert it to ogg though. Ogg-Vorbis 320kbit/s still sounds quite good, and takes much less space.
Audacity's a great program, and mplayer is my media player of choice. For listening to music I use a mpd (music player daemon).
For browsing I switch between luakit and Firefox with the Pentadactyl plugin. Luakit is much smaller and resource efficient than Firefox, but it has some trouble rendering some webpages. Well, and emails I usually do using the webinterface of my mail provider or using K 9 Mail on my Android phone, as I have never found a mail client which really works great for what I need. I tried Thunderbird, but it was too big, and I never had the nerve to learn all the hotkeys of mutt. What I really want is a terminal mailclient which can display HTML with w3m (that's something mutt can do at least), which uses a keylayout like vim (and not like nano or such), and is easy to learn.
MisterHeal:
I've got Arch Linux on my laptop and #! on my desktop. I've used Linux for a couple years, and its used exclusively at my University in my Computer Science program so I wont be leaving it anytime soon. That is a semi-lie because I'm going to throw PCBSD on my laptop during the summer, but I'll be switching over to Mint on my desktop.
My laptop is called Gaben. I'll agree that Arches rolling release is nice, but its not enough to make me stay. I also use LibreOffice, and I'm going to checkout adcde because ripping my Dads cd collection into FLAC would be awesome.
I'm still looking for a good cross platform calendar system so I can keep track of my courses, and when assignments are due etc.
de_la_Nae:
Jesus I'm out of the loop. I can understand just enough of the conversation to realize how behind-the-times I am. :psyduck: I'm lazy so stick to Windows. And truth told even though I don't use my system to play games as often as I used to, I'd still need to keep a drive or partition for it.
celticgeek:
Lots of people keep a Windows partition around just for gaming. Although Steam is helping to close that loop.
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