We seemed to have lost stuff like this after the split, so, lets reboot it!
Question is in the title! What do you have for a system? Whats your DE? ETC!
Currently my desktop is running Antergos with a pretty well customized XFCE and the latest kernel. My main laptop is also running Ant with XFCE, but I don’t use it all too often so I have been investing time into researching about Slackware since I /really really/ don’t want to put time in to update and fix updates that break. Since I’m going in that sort of direction I decided that it wouldn’t be too bad to learn some other new stuff, so I am also going to try out the WM Ratpoison. I don’t see all too much about it and I don’t want to use i3 and I already know Awesome. Fuck it, right?
Glad to see you attempting actual content. It’s a welcome change of pace.
Might as well just use tmux. Ratpoison isn’t worth it, I promise. Tmux would literally be a better use of your time.
As for me, my only linux box is a CentOS Editing and VFX machine That I also use for ML tinkering. KDE, Mainline kernel, ZFS. Not much else to say really except That davinci resolve and Autodesk smoke are excellent if you’re getting into it.
Don’t get me wrong, I can use a TWM if I want, but I don’t want. I spend way too much time thinking and I’ve been using non-tiling DE’s since the 90s, so I’m used to them.
Desktop - Slackware 14.2 with KDE 4
Laptop 1 - Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity
Laptop 2 - Windows 7, FreeBSD KDE 4, Kali GNOME, Arch GNOME, Backbox XFCE
Netbook - Slackware Current with XFCE
Desktop - Ubuntu Gnome 17.04
Laptop - Ubuntu Gnome 17.04
Virtualization Server - Ubuntu Server 16.04
NAS Server - FreeNAS 9.10
I used to be a really big Gentoo guy, but ultimately I got frustrated with the massive inconsistency of it. I re-OS’d fairly often, and every time I did, I’d hop into IRC with a problem installing the desktop environment. Every. Fucking. Time. I reinstalled, there was a new package that I should have used to install the desktop environment, and I was a moron for using the ancient way that I had used.
Screw 'dat. I’ve done a lot of crazy shit with Gentoo, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything (hell, the crazy shit I did in Gentoo helped me through a couple of interviews at Cray), but you also couldn’t pay me to go back to Gentoo. A lot of people have a vague hatred for Ubuntu being a “n00b” distro. But the fact of the matter is it’s a Linux distro that’s put together so shit just works, and if you want to do the crazy stuff you end up doing with Gentoo, well you can do that too if you want.
