Comments on: What Your Linux Distro Says About You

By: Sangram

Sangram — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:35:45 +0000

Hmmm..

I am lost here..
pretty old article, just got here from StumbleUpon.

Where should I put myself?
Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, ….
I have 24 distros installed(just for fun). Still in love with CLI.

Damn!! I am lost here…

By: bob smiley

bob smiley — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:25:37 +0000

Damn Small Linux … you have an extreme fetish with getting a Linux GUI to run on the most ancient, obsolete hardware out there.

In D&D terms, you’re the 36th level Paladin who INSISTS on still using the +1 Long Sword you found during a level 3 quest 10 years ago because it “still works”. For some reason you get off on the fact that you’re still getting by with it while others have “wussed out” and moved on to Holy Avengers +5.

By: Rachit Mangal

Rachit Mangal — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:47:53 +0000

hi thr..im a newbie in minux..im using windows right now but quite fed up with it..i wanna knw tht to use slackware u must knw c++ or other computer languages…

By: bludgeon

bludgeon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:32:58 +0000

What, then, does it say about you if you run, say OpenBSD?

By: oyster

oyster — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:29:51 +0000

Sabayon: you want everything and at least 6 different kinds of kitchen sink to choose from.

By: iggyst00ge

iggyst00ge — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:08:35 +0000

Mepis: You don’t like loud music or barking dogs. You’ll have a (one) drink on special occasions. You always cross on the green and never in between. Your house is decorated in comfortable earth tone furniture from LaZBoy and white walls. You change the batteries in your smoke alarms about once a month just to be on the safe side. You pick stability, safety, and convenience over all else. You drive a Toyota Corolla and couldn’t be happier.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:04:30 +0000

you know it’s funny, i’ve tried pretty much every common distro and it still seems like ubuntu got it right. you *can* compile things if you want, fool around with shell scripts, tweak and perfect just like the others, you just don’t *need* to. doesn’t that make a lot more sense? ubuntu makes it easy to get the basics set up and start tweaking rather than building the whole thing from source/fscking with shell scripts just to get basic things working. then there is the fact that ubuntu + debian have the largest list of packages available to them and *working* hardware drivers available.

By: James Stewart

James Stewart — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:05:15 +0000

Slackware certainly isn’t harder than Gentoo to install.

The lack of a good package manager does make it hard to customize the selection of installed packages however.

That said, I’m often amazed how little trouble I have getting updated and/or additional packages running on Slackware considering the careless nature of its package installer.

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I feel that there are significant differences in the mindset of the typical Slackware user verses the typical Gentoo user.

The typical Slackware user is looking for something that works well “out of the box” but then lends itself to easy MANUAL customization and configuration, without automated tools getting in the way.

The typical Gentoo user is looking for a fully optimized system and is willing to go through a lot of extra work to get it. They are not specifically looking for manual configuration capability, but more the ability install up-to-date versions of available software and have it compiled to take full take advantage of the hardware they have.

Common to both of these distros is that they attract a lot of people from the *bsd Unix camps.

By: Thud-n-Blunder

Thud-n-Blunder — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:29:38 +0000

I have to chuckle at these. I can take a joke, after all – I still work with Windows!

I started with RedHat 6.2, dual-booting it on a Windows 98 machine, and earned my wife’s just and terrible wrath when I brought the machine down in smoking wreckage after switching to Mandrake and upgrading it afterward, rendering neither side bootable for a short time.

Now, I have a couple of home laptops that are running different flavors – I have an old IBM ThinkPad that I have connected to our stereo which is running the Xfce version of Mint. I’ve had nothing but joy from it – the wireless was recognized immediately, and the Xfce interface is easy on my poor 1990′s-vintage laptop. The other one has Ubuntu Faun, and is how I’m posting this comment.

I have to say that much of the analysis of me as a user of Ubuntu is pretty close to spot-on. However, if you were married to my wife, you’d want something that let you upgrade pretty easily without risking turning your machine into a paperweight.

By: S Lucre

S Lucre — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:06:12 +0000

The Debian profile is way off. I have Etch/KDE on my wife’s box so that I don’t need to mess with it. Install was even easier than .buntu, all the hardware works, and apt-get works the way it should (unlike .buntu). Happiness is never having to download another iso until the hardware breaks. I have Lenny/KDE on the old laptop I use for a backup system and sidux for my own desktop. I’m barely a wannabe geek and much prefer time on the nearby beach to fighting with my OS but I grew up with DOS so the command line isn’t too fearsome.

By: Mung

Mung — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:40:18 +0000

Hey, you forgot Xandros and Linspire

“You are shit, rubbish, and scum”

By: jack

jack — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:09:57 +0000

well just saying i disagree with the ubuntu one

ive been using linux for 2 years, i am extreamly comfertable using only the command line, and can fix most common linux problems.

But, for work, i use ubuntu. Ubuntu is for when I dont want to mess arround with the os, all im doing is working.

In my spare time i have debian, slackware, and many other installs. But for work, I use ubuntu.

Now, when kde4 comes out, i will really need to swich as kubuntu is really a sad implementation of ubuntu+kde.

By: Serenitude

Serenitude — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:21:12 +0000

…and again the mandatory comment from a zealout with a chip on his shoulder that thinks a SimplyMEPIS user is a PCLOS user because he describes it’s ease of use to the point that a new user could be shocked there’s such a thing as a command line Sorry, don’t use PCLOS myself. Are you sad, now?

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:23:24 +0000

…and again the mandatory comment from a PCLOS user who thinks every Linux article needs to be a PCLOS advertisement.

By: tactus

tactus — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:39:11 +0000

The fun part about Ubuntu is that it’s just as powerful as a Debian install, but only slicker out of the box. Heck I have it running smoothly on a P2 with 64 MB, an install comparable to a Debian base with a Fluxbox GUI on top. I guess the point is, Ubuntu has plenty to offer to the advanced user but it’s often regarded as the converter distribution. That said, I liked the profile of the Ubuntu user in the above article, it sure is the safe and crowded middle-road of all the Linuses.