RE-Linux

[JesseRaymondBassett]

Hello all,
How many of you here on ChristianForums use Linux as your daily system? If so, which distribution do you use? I am using Mint 21.1 and it is solid and stable. It made me fall back in love with Linux all over again.

 

[Brother-Mike]

Big Linux fan here but sadly haven’t had it running as primary for quite some time (now using OSX/BSD, for better or worse). I loved Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu in the day… not even sure if they’re still around!

 

[JesseRaymondBassett]

@Brother-Mike ,
You should check out Linux Mint. Its based on Ubuntu 22.10 and it is very secure and fun to play around with!

 

[Brother-Mike]

Yeah definitely - I am tempted to VM it on my MBP - lately I noticed Apple pulled many of the normal built-in GNU/FOSS tools like Python into a separate download that you have to agree to a bunch of terms to get. Used to be all of that stuff was just installed and ready to go from OSX terminal (mind you, like two years out of date, but better than nothing).

 

[Brother-Mike]

For what it’s worth, Jesus would definitely be a Linux guy My opinion at least…

 

[Wookiee]

I have a Proxmox server and a general purpose Ubuntu server running a few services I use daily.

But to answer the intent of the question: since working from home on my desktop as a Windows sysadmin, I have too much stuff that I really don't have time to screw around with it as a daily end user OS anymore. When I used to experiment, it'd usually be Debian or Ubuntu running KDE.

 

[Anthony2019]

Over the years I have been using Linux almost exclusively on my laptop and desktop (I did try Windows 11 to see what it was like, but didn't get on well with it).
I enjoy exploring new software and features, but increasingly I have depended upon having a system which is stable and reliable. I understand it is the same system that powers the NASA Pleiades supercomputer. It also has advanced configuration tools such as YaST and the safety of a snapshot/rollback feature.
I use Linux mainly for audio production, photo and video editing, creating documents, web browsing and communication (eg. email).
KDE is my preferred desktop environment, but I also enjoy using Gnome from time to time.

 

[peaceful-forest]

I'm using Zorin. It has its pros and cons. It's the first Linux OS that I have used on a regular basis (other than Android, but should Android still be considered Linux?). I have little experience with Ubuntu from a college course I took years ago.

 

[Sketcher]

I use Debian stable as my daily driver. Moved to it from Mint some years back after their security breach that affected their repos.

 

[JesseRaymondBassett]

Over the years I have been using Linux almost exclusively on my laptop and desktop (I did try Windows 11 to see what it was like, but didn't get on well with it).
I enjoy exploring new software and features, but increasingly I have depended upon having a system which is stable and reliable. I understand it is the same system that powers the NASA Pleiades supercomputer. It also has advanced configuration tools such as YaST and the safety of a snapshot/rollback feature.
I use Linux mainly for audio production, photo and video editing, creating documents, web browsing and communication (eg. email).
KDE is my preferred desktop environment, but I also enjoy using Gnome from time to time.

@Anthony2019 ,
What is the name of your distro? The only one I know of that uses YaST is OpenSuse.

 

[Anthony2019]

@Anthony2019 ,
What is the name of your distro? The only one I know of that uses YaST is OpenSuse.

Hi Jesse
The distro is OpenSuSE. It comes in two variants - OpenSuSE Tumbleweed (which is rolling release, and gets all updated packages that have passed their QA process). and OpenSuSE Leap which is a point release and binary compatible with SuSE Enterprise Linux. I use Leap for day to day stuff due to it being very stable - but I keep my eye on Tumbleweed to see new features and updates.

 

[barefootNH]

I started experimenting with Linux since the 2009 time-frame. I'm heavily into technology, but not a super computer-user so it had to be relatively easy: Ubuntu or one if its variants seemed the way to go. I tried many different distros and settled on Ubuntu Mate.

If one of my computers came with Windoze I'd dual-boot with it: since I paid for the Windoze license I might as well keep it for those times when I'd need it. I recently got a great deal on a couple of used enterprise-grade laptops, so I bought a hard drive for each and installed Ubuntu Mate on them; my (non-techie) wife is very comfortable with it.

For quite a few years (since 2012?) I've been using Linux almost exclusively at home, and it has actually helped me at work. It has also helped me with other people's computers when they have a problem, such as their filesystem went corrupt, or something they tried to do went sideways.

FWIW, the founder of Mint is a racial bigot, proud of it, and was unrepentant last I did research. Before I knew that I did try Mint, but eventually discarded it: I, and others have noted that it can be a little 'odd.' YMMV

 

[JesseRaymondBassett]

I started experimenting with Linux since the 2009 time-frame. I'm heavily into technology, but not a super computer-user so it had to be relatively easy: Ubuntu or one if its variants seemed the way to go. I tried many different distros and settled on Ubuntu Mate.

If one of my computers came with Windoze I'd dual-boot with it: since I paid for the Windoze license I might as well keep it for those times when I'd need it. I recently got a great deal on a couple of used enterprise-grade laptops, so I bought a hard drive for each and installed Ubuntu Mate on them; my (non-techie) wife is very comfortable with it.

For quite a few years (since 2012?) I've been using Linux almost exclusively at home, and it has actually helped me at work. It has also helped me with other people's computers when they have a problem, such as their filesystem went corrupt, or something they tried to do went sideways.

FWIW, the founder of Mint is a racial bigot, proud of it, and was unrepentant last I did research. Before I knew that I did try Mint, but eventually discarded it: I, and others have noted that it can be a little 'odd.' YMMV

I did know that about Mint. I tried the 21.1 version but have settled on ZorinOS. I then install cinnamon as my desktop environment. No problems whatsoever.

 

[linux.poet]

I use kubuntu as my daily driver on an off-and-on basis since when I got that machine assembled back together in 2021. I am thinking that it may be time to ditch that OS for a new one, as that flavor of Ubuntu is attracting a bunch of user-unsolvable errors with each software operate. I also am struggling with keeping my OS software updates on LTS and I keep getting notices that I need to upgrade my OS that don’t even seem to work.

I think I may just back up my data and reinstall the OS, as that would allow me to repartition the SSD so I have a bigger /boot/ section and I don’t have to delete kernels so often. The only annoying thing about that is that I have to reinstall everything, and said program reinstalls could take a month or two. If I do that, probably just roll off to vanilla Ubuntu as I want that main driver to still be a dedicated programming machine. Maybe I will finally get CUPS to work.

On the other hand, for my remote web VPS I am now considering learning CentOS, as I am having trouble with Ubuntu versions and compatibility with Open Litespeed. See here: Installing Xenforo forum software/Installing Litespeed Server, etc. and here: Open Litespeed not installing from binary or repository on Ubuntu 23.04 VPS.

 

[JesseRaymondBassett]

I use kubuntu as my daily driver on an off-and-on basis since when I got that machine assembled back together in 2021. I am thinking that it may be time to ditch that OS for a new one, as that flavor of Ubuntu is attracting a bunch of user-unsolvable errors with each software operate. I also am struggling with keeping my OS software updates on LTS and I keep getting notices that I need to upgrade my OS that don’t even seem to work.

I think I may just back up my data and reinstall the OS, as that would allow me to repartition the SSD so I have a bigger /boot/ section and I don’t have to delete kernels so often. The only annoying thing about that is that I have to reinstall everything, and said program reinstalls could take a month or two. If I do that, probably just roll off to vanilla Ubuntu as I want that main driver to still be a dedicated programming machine. Maybe I will finally get CUPS to work.

On the other hand, for my remote web VPS I am now considering learning CentOS, as I am having trouble with Ubuntu versions and compatibility with Open Litespeed. See here: Installing Xenforo forum software/Installing Litespeed Server, etc. and here: Open Litespeed not installing from binary or repository on Ubuntu 23.04 VPS.

I use Ubuntu Cinnamon as my daily driver. Im currently running Ubuntu 25.04 which works just fine

 

[Benam]

Fedora 42 KDE here, on my laptop as well as a couple of desktops. Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu, Centos, CloudLinux, and others on various servers and VMs.

 

[YeshuaFan]

I use Ubuntu Cinnamon as my daily driver. Im currently running Ubuntu 25.04 which works just fine

Currently using Mint 22, Ubuntu 24.04, and just started playing around with Pclinuxos Debian edition

 

[The Liturgist]

I'm using Zorin. It has its pros and cons. It's the first Linux OS that I have used on a regular basis (other than Android, but should Android still be considered Linux?). I have little experience with Ubuntu from a college course I took years ago.

Yes, in that it uses the Linux kernel, and you can get deeper access to some Android phones through a process similiar to jailbreaking an iOS device.

 

[The Liturgist]

Hi Jesse
The distro is OpenSuSE. It comes in two variants - OpenSuSE Tumbleweed (which is rolling release, and gets all updated packages that have passed their QA process). and OpenSuSE Leap which is a point release and binary compatible with SuSE Enterprise Linux. I use Leap for day to day stuff due to it being very stable - but I keep my eye on Tumbleweed to see new features and updates.

I used to really like SuSE but since they migrated to systemd and other architectural changes I find them disagreeable. I do like that it provides more options in terms of filesystems than RHEL/Fedora/CentOS and clones.

 

[The Liturgist]

I started experimenting with Linux since the 2009 time-frame. I'm heavily into technology, but not a super computer-user so it had to be relatively easy: Ubuntu or one if its variants seemed the way to go. I tried many different distros and settled on Ubuntu Mate.

If one of my computers came with Windoze I'd dual-boot with it: since I paid for the Windoze license I might as well keep it for those times when I'd need it. I recently got a great deal on a couple of used enterprise-grade laptops, so I bought a hard drive for each and installed Ubuntu Mate on them; my (non-techie) wife is very comfortable with it.

For quite a few years (since 2012?) I've been using Linux almost exclusively at home, and it has actually helped me at work. It has also helped me with other people's computers when they have a problem, such as their filesystem went corrupt, or something they tried to do went sideways.

FWIW, the founder of Mint is a racial bigot, proud of it, and was unrepentant last I did research. Before I knew that I did try Mint, but eventually discarded it: I, and others have noted that it can be a little 'odd.' YMMV

One reason why Linux Mint exists is that historically, Ubuntu MatE and Cinammon were not a thing. There has also been Ubuntu’s move away from APT to their own proprietary packaging scheme which would scare me away.