What is the real Linux that people actually use for longer a few days?

The versions used by programmers, scientists, IT workers, and hobbyists who do more than sit around ricing and distro hopping. Please provide anecdotes, not just opinions.

LFS or arch.

Unbuntu.

They only use it cause they are too chickenshit to pirate a copy of windows 7

My own experiences. I have known two (2) programmers and this is their setups.

>Programmer A
>video game programmer working for Iron Galaxy Studios on Killer Instinct
Debian with KDE
Secondary OS: Windows 7

>Programmer B
>Erlang specialist working for Lexmark
Ubuntu with Unity
Secondary OS: Mac OS X

Anecdotes please

Stock Ubuntu with Unity and no rice at all

Then you realize its only scientists and poor third worlders that actually use Linux, the former not using it as a personal OS at all

Trust me, we pirate it here

I use Gentoo and I'm a Professional Programmer. Most people use Macs, then Ubuntu, then Debian.

Never met anyone using Gentoo or Arch in the wild

Mac with Mac OS X or Mac with Linux?

Linux that people actually use? Android.

Rather good answer tbqhwyf

The ones that I have experience with:

>RHEL
Built for super stability and the packages are audited before released. Zero-days are patched immediately. The only thing that sucks about this is licensing/subscriptions and having to use a cert to connect to the RHEL satellite servers/repos for updates. Not a complete ripoff like Solaris subscriptions though.

>CentOS
Same thing as RHEL, except free. Depending on the organization and the security posture, they may/may not allow this to be used because it's not "the upstream." I sometimes sneak CentOS packages, because some of our servers' subscriptions from RHEL have run out and I can't be pissed to ask my boss for money.

>OpenSUSE
Wish I could use this more at work in production, but I only use it as -my- development station on a personal machine. It's a great suite of software by default and the repos are getting as expansive as Debian's. YaST makes configuration of some tedious tasks easier.

Linux 4.9.8

Arch, because of it's out of box default base install and updated packages and rolling release. Having an up to date mesa and video drivers is great if you game or have newer hardware.

Having to reinstall every 6 months causes distro hopping. Rolling release keeps you updated forever.

I like Fedora, other than the name, it's a pretty good distro.

I work at a relatively small (350 people) web dev company. Every workstation has Kubuntu 14.04/16.04 installed, it gets the work done. Only managers walk around with their shiny macbooks.

What sort of organization do you work for?

Nobody ever complained about KDE "bloat"?

Red hat enterprise is used in government offices, CentOS used by several server-owners, openSUSE is used by businesses. Ubuntu is used by students very often.

I do IT for a medium sized business with a shit budget. I have several Debian servers running as VMs or directly on some old hardware because it's stable and well documented. Everybody is happy because I get a working reliable system up for zero dollars, and I get to make us slightly less Windows saturated, one project at a time.

I work with DoD clients as a contractor.

I've been using Xubuntu continuously for a couple years now.

Using linux is tricky since you need to know pretty intricate details to do basic things (like how to register programs in your fucking 'start menu') or how to mount samba shares using umount and not thunar because thunar's automatic samba mounting doesn't support different versions of windows shares for some reason.

any server

We silently hate KDE for occasional plasma crashes and overall clunkiness, but it's bearable.
In all honesty it doesn't matter what distro we use since you spend 95% of the time in IDEs and browsers anyway. It just happened so that our IT head or admins decided to go with Kubuntu.

Redstone arsenal uses red hat for scientific purposes.

Personally I can't stand CentOS because of such bullshit like /etc/sysconfig, and of course general red hat retardation. I also hate how they basically don't ship kernel drivers for anything resembling old or obscure hardware and you often have to get them from third party repos.

>using a file manager instead of just coreutils
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Yeah, that's the only pain in the ass part. Working for an organization like mine as well doesn't help either, because there's so much red tape over installing software now that I have give justification for every piece and some person with no technical knowledge whatsoever gets to make a decision based on what they -think- is needed. It's kind of retarded imo.

No only this, but information assurance teams go by this shitty list of "approved software" which is outdated and does not reflect real-world needs. So you literally have to be a sysadmin/developer and be a lawyer at the same time in order to do anything.

projectionist here

our whole projection system (auditorium servers+the library server) run gahnoo slash loonix. It's a custom distro made by Dolby so I don't know what was the basic distro, but I suggest debian squeeze.
Doremi was the biggest competitor of Dolby before they bought it, their system was based on gnu/linux too.

also checked.

OpenBSD

It's like linux but without the mental disorders

OpenBSD
Pretty much all of nasa

Been a hobbyist for the last 6 years, working as a software dev for the last 2.

I've been using lfs on my main machine for almost 2 years. It's small, fast, and extensible. It runs what I need it too and nothing else, and I like it that way. I also know every piece of software installed intimately. Was a fun challenge to build, since the lfs book doesnt really cover how to get it to boot with uefi; and remains a fun challenge to maintain. I plan to install a lfs into all future machines I build.

I've been using arch on my laptop for the last 5 years. It's grown into a system that I've very pleased with. I used awesome window manager for a while when I first installed arch, but for the last 4ish years I've been running dwm.

In my eyes, arch is just a consumer version of lfs. It comes with a package manager, the aur, and is a hell of a lot easier to install. I'll probably always use arch on any laptop / netbook I own, and for the forseeable future will be using my lfs build for my desktops.

Both distros provide stable foundations upon which to build your ideal system.

got about 8 years of experience with linux, including professional use.

I always find myself coming back to arch for my desktop machines. it can be a pain at times but nothing matches the sheer availability of software on it. not even windows.

At a large multinational I interned at, Ubuntu was used as the de-facto development environment for devs who worked on software for embedded linux stuff.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

The smartest people I know use Ubuntu. I'm not joking, e.g. the creator of LMDB uses Xubuntu.

None

What you are is in fact called a troll/retard for a reason. Other variation might be retard/autist.

not linux

Programmer here, the other enthusiasts I know either use xubuntu or mint. I run an arch install with gnome I put together years ago. It just works and I can't be bothered to change it, and rolling release is definitely the way to go.

Yes Unix is much betterer

As a Windowsfag raised on mix and matching together haphazard hacks from the internet to trial-and-error solve OS problems, Arch distros appeal to me the most - "elegance" be damned. On Manjaro currently, but the differences from pure Arch are quite negligible from what I can tell. Contrary to what's been said about it, I find it a quite resilient distro. Perhaps the years of breakings have helped harden it somehow?

I tried using Fedora for a year or so back in 2009. It was crashed all the time on my laptop and was overall a headache. I installed Ubuntu on a whim and was surprised at how well it worked out of the box. Been using it as my primary OS since 2010, but, like many others, keep windows around for games. Currently I used xubuntu, since it's the most like gnome 2, which is what I was used to but no longer maintained. Never had much luck with KDE working the way I wanted on everything I needed to use.

I'm currently a grad student doing OS stuff, but I previously spent 3 years as a full time security researcher.

I've also experimented with FreeBSD which I admit does a lot of things really well. Still, it's not nearly as well-supported or even as secure (no ASLR, for one) as an up-to-date linux

OSX

arch + i3, turned out to be most productive for programming to me. Arch did not break a single time in over 2 years, rolling release keeps it up to date, did not break even when I forgot to pgrade for over 2 months. I code my own taskbar with i3blocks, and I am not a vimfag. If you are a programmer who wants to learn more about linux without the struggle of caveman like compilation of packages which you can totaly do if you are a caveman. Dont forget to go huntin after starting the compilation though, waifu might be hungry. I would give a screenfetch but I dont even have that shitty package, because who the fucks needs it, if you install ubuntu you will get shit ton of this useless packages you never used, like text to speech keyboard for fucking blind people, like what the actual fuck, dont forget amazon botnet.


I went too far.

Nigga, even Ubuntu doesn't come with screenfetch by default. It's literally only used by faggots who want to show their CentOS+lewd anime wallpaper desktops

I fear the interjection someday will be a thing of the past, which scares me. Is such a board culture now that I would rather ask for someone to make a bot than completely lose it.

Just saying.