Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?
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I love reading and seeing what people are using in this community...
I am curious as to what Linux Desktop distro everyone is using, what Desktop Environment and what apps and services allow you to stay off Windows.
I was a Mac guy for years, switched to Unity and Ubuntu a couple years ago after being a long time Gnome holdout. We use O365 at work (not my choice) but the evolution of Office Web Apps and Outlook Web Access have allowed me to prevail.
What is everyone's ideal desktop and tools?
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@bigbear Ideal desktop? I'm happy without a GUI, personally. We've moved to mostly KDE at work. I don't like what Ubuntu and GNOME have done with the interface, but that's just personal preference.
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I'm running Linux Mint on my personal laptop. Love it! I've tried some other spins on it, but Mint seems to be the right one for me at the moment.
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@bigbear said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:
a Mac guy for years, switched to Unity and Ub
At home I run Fedora 25 Workstation and CentOS 7 Workstation. I use a mix of Gnome 3 and i3 on them.
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@travisdh1 said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:
@bigbear Ideal desktop? I'm happy without a GUI, personally. We've moved to mostly KDE at work. I don't like what Ubuntu and GNOME have done with the interface, but that's just personal preference.
So where do you run your browser if you don't like a GUI? or are you saying that the GUI choice doesn't matter to you as long as you get your browser?
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Currently running Plasma at home
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@Dashrender said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:
@travisdh1 said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:
@bigbear Ideal desktop? I'm happy without a GUI, personally. We've moved to mostly KDE at work. I don't like what Ubuntu and GNOME have done with the interface, but that's just personal preference.
So where do you run your browser if you don't like a GUI? or are you saying that the GUI choice doesn't matter to you as long as you get your browser?
Sadly, almost no websites work with lynx or the other text based browsers. Used to be I didn't need a GUI for anything other than playing games. Yeah, I still have a single Windows box for that at home. I still haven't tried a Chromebook, but the latest ones are looking decent hardware for a low price instead of junky hardware for cheap.
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Ubuntu or OpenSuSe (Unity or KDE).
I was in love with tiling environments like i3 or dwm, but they usually broke the compatibility with other pieces of software.
I usually don't care that much about the DE, all I need is a console and good hardware support. -
I'm using Unity on Ubuntu now. But my first choice would be Korora.
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Linux Mint
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At work I have a RHEL 7 Workstation.
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@Dashrender said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:
@travisdh1 said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:
@bigbear Ideal desktop? I'm happy without a GUI, personally. We've moved to mostly KDE at work. I don't like what Ubuntu and GNOME have done with the interface, but that's just personal preference.
So where do you run your browser if you don't like a GUI? or are you saying that the GUI choice doesn't matter to you as long as you get your browser?
We have a guy here who tries to use curl for everything on cent os cli. He's our Mr Robot.
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I like debian myself. Not really sure why, it probably because it was the first one i used a long time ago. It does have the largest available pool of software. Have a desktop at home with Mint as well.
Im a big fan of cinnamon desktop. Cant stand gnome, i like kde/plasma/whatever it is called now as well.
got my laptop on debian stretch with full touchscreen support, wifi works much better now too. -
debian with xfce at home, physical host. ubuntu mate at work, in a VM: I've to stick with win10. everything like xfce/mate is ok to me.
I also own a laptop with debian + gnome 3 but nowdays I do not use it anymore. <- it is now used by my wife.
