Who's using linux?
By pierone
@pierone (1894)
Italy
February 28, 2009 6:57am CST
Hello friends.
I would like to know whom of you is using linux as his usual desktop enviroment, and what distro are you using for that.
I don't want know who's using linux for a server use, or as a firewall (for example using a dedicated distro like IPCOP).
I just want to know how many people are using linux for their normal desktop use, just like millions of people are using XP or, sadly, the resources vampire called Vista.
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10 responses
@freerr (666)
• China
25 Mar 09
Hi, pierone
I am using a linux as desktop environment since I am a open source engineer. People who like open source or work on open source just like the free and GPL tools, so I use ubuntu as my daily operating system. I always also upgrade ubuntu along with ubuntu group.
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@pierone (1894)
• Italy
25 Mar 09
Thanks for your response to my discussion, friend. I'm actually using ubuntu too, and I would like to try fluxbuntu on an old computer, to see if it can work well with this kind of linux distribution. Actually that old computer works well with a DSL or a puppy, but works better with a win98. It's sad but for the oldest computers seems Linux is grown too much to fit their few resources.
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@gyramary (152)
• Italy
18 Jul 09
Hello.
I'm using Ubuntu on a quite old laptop, and I'm really satisfied with it. The computer run well, not too much slow (seems a bit faster than with XP), no blue screens at all.
If the linux development will continue in this way, and people will become smarter, I guess in the future linux could be the most used OS.
@sampathx123 (35)
• Sri Lanka
8 Feb 13
As this is four years ago I think you are a regular user of Ubuntu. I didn't use it since 2011 September. please update us about the new Version(12.10)
@tonyllenium (6252)
• Italy
17 Dec 12
i use linux for many purposes and now the linux distro i ma using is ubuntu i also tried other as mandriva,fedora,redhat,mint,suse but right now i feel comfortable using ubuntu and its features!!
@pandaemonaeon (113)
• Italy
24 Mar 09
I use kubuntu 8.10 on my principal PC:
intel core due do E5200@3.4 GHz
2 gb of OCZ Fatal1ty
HD 320 GB S-ATA II
and a big tower case
I love Compiz-Fusion!
In my laptop use Windows XP
linux is hard to use but i like it because don't have viruses...
i'm creating a print-server with linux but is not simple :-(
@jkennedy215 (6)
• United States
9 Mar 09
I am using an Asus Eee PC right now and it has a modified version of Xandros. The way it comes out of the box is way too simple and complicated to add apps, etc.. Plus you couldnt change the desktop, so I configured the advanced mode and seems to be ok. More like a true linux now. I want to try out Pupeee Linux, I hear it works great on these tiny things.
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
9 Mar 09
Well, I did think about installing Linux to use at home.
But the PC being a common use one, it is tough to make that jump to Linux.
Cos everyone else at home is only familiar with windows. And if I make that shift to Linux, there is gonna be a whole host of problems with everyone in the family.
From applications to printing to even surfing the web, everyone is going to cry for help all the time.
So I decided to stick to windows for now. 
@clickicy (571)
• Indonesia
28 Feb 09
hi, i use linux as desktop... Fedora core 10 is its distribution. i was using kde 3.5, but since fc10 includes kde 4 in which resource intensive like vista, i switch to gnome - a bit ackward but gnome is the only alternative...
fc 10 lack of multimedia feature, but it's okay for me. i want to try slackware 12.2. they said it still using kde 3.5. i don't know it yet. i still download it right now... if it true, then maybe i use it.
@wanpisu (207)
• Malaysia
1 Mar 09
I'm using Linux as my main desktop OS. Currently my distro of choice is Arch Linux. I like it because its optimize of i686 processor and it using package manager pacman which is a powerful as Debian package manager apt-get. If you want to find other Linux distro you can go to http://distrowatch.com
