Ask HN: What free, open source OS do you use?

Posted by unethical_ban on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:58PM
from the ask-hn dept.

For those who are using their computers full time for work or development, what distributions/OSes are you using, and how? What hardware does it run on, and what makes you choose it over what are likely very similar competitors?

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Re:Ask HN: What free, open source OS do you use? by probinso on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:04PM (#24805852)

Where my choice I would use Fedora, for work I use Ubuntu. Both work on a lot, sometimes both have problems with Bluetooth. if you want to run docker on Fedora you have to do a little extra work and disable some security features.

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Re:Ask HN: What free, open source OS do you use? by jetti on Saturday October 17, 2020 @11:45PM (#24815386)

Ubuntu 20.04 and Kali Linux 2020.2 on an old Dell Precision M6800. I have MacOS on my 2012 MacBook Pro too but the keyboard is dying on that computer so I don’t use it much

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Re:Ask HN: What free, open source OS do you use? by someonexisting on Saturday October 17, 2020 @05:40PM (#24813614)

Arch with KDE. Arch simply because of pacman and the AUR, and KDE, because I like it better than any other DE. Never really bothered with customizing i3 or some other WM.

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Re:Ask HN: What free, open source OS do you use? by bradwood on Friday October 16, 2020 @06:35PM (#24805679)

Arch/i3/neovim/tmux/libvirt/k3s on a Dell Precision 5540 -- it's a beast of a machine and it runs brilliantly.

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Re:Ask HN: What free, open source OS do you use? by gjvc on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:13PM (#24803430)

Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid

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Re:Ask HN: What free, open source OS do you use? by billconan on Sunday October 18, 2020 @10:09PM (#24822796)

ubuntu 18.04.

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Re:Ask HN: What free, open source OS do you use? by goatcode on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:33PM (#24829996)

Is there any answer other than TempleOS?

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