• What distro do you use and why?
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RPM and yum is really good once you're used to using terminal linux I can't remember when i've actually used a DE in Fedora because I'm so used to coding C++ using VIM ctrl alt F2, then boom, assload of terminal space
Ubuntu 12.04 will be 'Precise Pangolin'. That is all.
They have to choose the most obscure animal no one has heard of. Should've named it Pink Panther.
there should be a Queer Quokka just because
I used to be a big Gentoo fan, but I didn't really had the time to keep it up-to-date. (Hours of compile time wasted :<) When possible I use ArchLinux, but most of the time I use Windows because you can't really play games and program C# in Linux. (Yes, Wine and Mono work, but not really good.) I use Linux for browsing the internet and programming Python :smile:
I use the newest version of Ubuntu, because windows 7 ran like shit on this extremely low resource laptop. 2gb of ram, 1.5mhz single core processor, 250gb hdd, waaaay to small for the standard when it was built... in 2010... Ubuntu runs so fucking smoothly, and looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better.
[QUOTE=MightyMax;32895151]I use the newest version of Ubuntu, because windows 7 ran like shit on this extremely low resource laptop. 2gb of ram, 1.5mhz single core processor, 250gb hdd, waaaay to small for the standard when it was built... in 2010... Ubuntu runs so fucking smoothly, and looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better.[/QUOTE] You should go into the BIOS and check the processor speed is at it's default. My mobo got shorted out after something fell from my desk and hit the power bar (I've kept my desk relatively cleaner after that) so I had to get a new one and for some reason the BIOS had everything set at the lowest performance settings possible.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32896990]You should go into the BIOS and check the processor speed is at it's default. My mobo got shorted out after something fell from my desk and hit the power bar (I've kept my desk relatively cleaner after that) so I had to get a new one and for some reason the BIOS had everything set at the lowest performance settings possible.[/QUOTE]I have absolutely no idea how to do that.
I use Arch Linux, I think that is a simple but yet customable (or how you spell that word) distro. I use Linux for the most purposes and windows for programming because of C# and XNA and other crap. For some reason steam doesn't work for me on Linux so I use Windows if I ever want to play a game over steam.
[QUOTE=AlienCat;32923052]I use Arch Linux, I think that is a simple but yet customable (or how you spell that word) distro. I use Linux for the most purposes and windows for programming because of C# and XNA and other crap. For some reason steam doesn't work for me on Linux so I use Windows if I ever want to play a game over steam.[/QUOTE] You use Windows over Linux in programming? I haven't heard that one before. And you should be able to run Steam in WINE, a program that lets you run Windows application "sort of natively" on Linux. Beware though, that it might run like the finest horse shit.
Yes, I am using windows for programming cause I use C# and XNA. However I use Linux for java programming. I haven't figured out how to make makefile stuff for C++, seem somewhat annoying that you need to edit a file for every class you add... The problem is installing Steam, wine crashes and I got page fault errors. I guess I have to ask in wine's annoying all-in-one forum.
make and g++ is not the only way to create c++ applications; if you like IDE's holding your hand through programming you should look at code::blocks. It runs natively on Linux and it acts a lot like mvs. I personally enjoy using geany, make, and g++ though.
You could use cmake to generate your makefiles. It's a bit less of a pain in the ass and I like that. You can also have some generic makefile that builds every .cpp into a .o and then links all the .o together to form your bin.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;32924055]You use Windows over Linux in programming? I haven't heard that one before. And you should be able to run Steam in WINE, a program that lets you run Windows application "sort of natively" on Linux. Beware though, that it might run like the finest horse shit.[/QUOTE] CSS launches for me, but at the same time, it does not work. I cannot click anything
I use Debian mainly because a large portion of distros are based off it, considering how solid it is, and a lot of things are Debian-oriented. I don't really care to use the derivative distros that come from it, because I haven't seen any of them provide anything that's stunningly original or new. Am I crazy?
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