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MannDude

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My CrunchBang workstation is still my most stable system. Once every two or three months, for some odd reason, the calendar from the the taskbar decides to want to not minimize and stay present ontop of all windows... It's a simply alt+f2, 'xkill' click on the calendar fix.

Considering that is really the only issue I've encountered with it, that's pretty damn good.

Was running Mint on the laptop, but I actually just backed everything up last night and put Windows back on my laptop. I needed something mobile that can run some specialized programs that are designed for Windows, but will probably dual boot it and either run tried and true Crunchbang on it or mix it up and just do straight Debian + XFCE. OpenBox or XFCE are really my preferred DMs now. Light, fast, stable, not buggy and easy to become familiar with.

The last two or three years for me has been strictly Mint and Crunchbang, but Mint has been disappointing me lately for some reason. Time to just keep it simple.
 
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I have ubuntu running well in the last 4 years on my Acer netbook and Linuxmint on my laptop, I just upgraded to linuxmint 17 a week ago. And they're both have windows as the they come with windows license.
 
fisle

fisle

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I usually roll with Debian Unstable or Arch Linux for my machines. Both work great for me and despite being unstable/rolling release, I have no stability issues whatsoever in daily use.
 
drmike

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fisle said:
I usually roll with Debian Unstable or Arch Linux for my machines. Both work great for me and despite being unstable/rolling release, I have no stability issues whatsoever in daily use.
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Arch started getting some attention from me in past few months as I run it on some ARM based units (purely server version though).  Interesting OS but takes a lot to get use to (compared to Debian) and the community can be rather put-offish.   and many complaints about updates breaking stuff... Already dealt with that on server version and a post-event rebuild.
 
Aldryic C'boas

Aldryic C'boas

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drmike said:
Arch started getting some attention from me in past few months as I run it on some ARM based units (purely server version though). Interesting OS but takes a lot to get use to (compared to Debian) and the community can be rather put-offish. and many complaints about updates breaking stuff... Already dealt with that on server version and a post-event rebuild.
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I will say that Arch is one of the most frustrating distros to virtualize.. KVM may be fine but there was always something breaking on OpenVZ.. to the point we had to put up an "Unsupported, use at own risk" disclaimer.
 
fisle

fisle

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I have now ditched Debian from my personal machines completely. Why? Because my main machine is now a laptop, and Debian Unstable still does not ship with 3.15 kernel. I know I could install it other ways but.. I just don't see a reason for it, since Arch pretty much just works and ships with 3.15 kernel.

Love this 1sec waking up from suspend-to-ram. :)
 
wlanboy

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FreeBSD here. But wait, someone said Linux? ;-)
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Jup.

  • Laptops: Latest Ubuntu
  • "XYZ Stack" servers: Debian
  • "Basic" servers: FreeBSD
If I want to run Ruby/Phyton servers/apps, MongoDB, RabbitMQ servers I am switching to Debian but for more "basic" scenarios I am always using FreeBSD.
 
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AThomasHowe

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SPINIKR-RO said:
Been meaning to put that on a VM and check it out. Seems like theres a lot of focus on the aesthetics. 
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I ran it on my desktop for 8 months or so, it's great. The first party apps the developed for it are great too. I know the mail app and stuff get a lot of flack for being basic but for me it was perfect, not too much noise.

If I wasn't using OS X I'd probably go back to it.
 
DomainBop

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MannDude said:
My CrunchBang workstation is still my most stable system. Once every two or three months, for some odd reason, the calendar from the the taskbar decides to want to not minimize and stay present ontop of all windows... It's a simply alt+f2, 'xkill' click on the calendar fix.

Considering that is really the only issue I've encountered with it, that's pretty damn good.

Was running Mint on the laptop, but I actually just backed everything up last night and put Windows back on my laptop. I needed something mobile that can run some specialized programs that are designed for Windows, but will probably dual boot it and either run tried and true Crunchbang on it or mix it up and just do straight Debian + XFCE. OpenBox or XFCE are really my preferred DMs now. Light, fast, stable, not buggy and easy to become familiar with.

The last two or three years for me has been strictly Mint and Crunchbang, but Mint has been disappointing me lately for some reason. Time to just keep it simple.
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#! The End.  CrunchBang distro development stops.
 
drmike

drmike

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DomainBop said:
#! The End.  CrunchBang distro development stops.
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Well that was overdue.

Crunchy had been slow on releases and lagging behind.  I stopped running it a year or more ago due to that and feeling the abadonware setting in.

Shame though cause the project I think still is needed.  Other distros in general aren't right enough, lots of bloat, badly rolled included stuff in a lot of distros.

Guess I'll be cruising for a Crunch-like OS.  I know there is Archbang, but I try to to avoid Arch.
 
MannDude

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I actually replaced my Crunchbang installs and have reverted back to Mint on the workstation and laptop a couple months ago.

Mint isn't perfect, but it gets the job done. Though neither MATE or Cinnamon play nice with multiple monitors. I'm sure it's possible to have the taskbar spread across two or more screens, but I've not looked into it. XFCE allows it, but it does it strangely where half of an item may appear on both screens, cut in half but it's better than nothing.
 
Jon

Jon

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Laptop: Fedora Rawhide (22) GNOME Shell - latest, bleeding-edge 

Desktop: Debian Sid Xfce - up-to-date yet more stable than rawhide

Well, it seems to me that GNOME Shell is actually awesome... Because I haven't used GNOME 2

Also, on Fedora Rawhide I can't get Optimus working properly. Any suggestions? I'm using Dell's L502x.
 
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