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Any Linux Nerds Here?fave distro? How long you been at it? How proficient?

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I have toyed around for years and years, played around with a whole lot of distros. Still no grandlinuxwixard, i can just somewhat navigate a terminal, at my best get duke nukem and blood to run. I loveeee Mint its like windows on XP just kept getting updates.
 

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Linux Admin is one of the many hats I wear at work. Mostly use Centos and Ubuntu for work related stuff. I suppose we'll need to look at Rocky Linux or something, due to the changes to Centos. Too bad, it was great for an enterprise OS while it lasted.

Manjaro KDE for gaming, especially through Steam.

It's been awhile since I tried Mint. Tried many years ago and liked it. Desktop distro isn't super important to me since I almost never use a GUI anyways.
 

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Linux Admin is one of the many hats I wear at work. Mostly use Centos and Ubuntu for work related stuff. I suppose we'll need to look at Rocky Linux or something, due to the changes to Centos. Too bad, it was great for an enterprise OS while it lasted.

Manjaro KDE for gaming, especially through Steam.

It's been awhile since I tried Mint. Tried many years ago and liked it. Desktop distro isn't super important to me since I almost never use a GUI anyways.
Righteous, i would call that VERY proficient. Unfortunately for me i will be forever hooked on using the GUI.
 

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Oh, after having installed well over 25 distros, I'd love to answer this:
  • For enthusiast/curiosity/learning/tinkering: Gentoo, Slackware, BSD (not linux, but unix based)
  • For productivity: Arch, Manjaro, Endeavor (basically most Arch based distros) with a tiling window manager like i3, dwm, bspwm, awesome, xmonad
  • For gaming: Still haven't tried this, but I would still probably go with an arch based distro with KDE plasma, like Incog mentioned, Manjaro would probably be good. I've heard good things about OpenSUSE Tumbleweed as well, but haven't done any gaming on it.
  • For servers/VPS: Debian based distro like Ubuntu LTS lite, which has replaced CentOS for many people. OpenSUSE would be fine too.
  • For the elderly/senior relatives: Mostly debian based stuff, like Linux Mint, Zorin, Elementary... with a good windows like DE/WM like Cinnamon, MATE, KDE Plasma etc.
  • For hacking/pen testing: Kali
  • For extreme privacy/buying drugs online: Tails
 

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Gentoo is for masochists. 😂

When I started as an admin in 1996ish, I started with BSDi. I hated that shit. Ive never been a big fan so FreeBSD or openbsd either.
 

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Gentoo is for masochists. 😂

When I started as an admin in 1996ish, I started with BSDi. I hated that shit. Ive never been a big fan so FreeBSD or openbsd either.
Hahah yeah fair enough. But if someone's really interested in computer science, gentoo, with all it's manual building and GCC flags is really enlightening. I would never use gentoo, or even BSD for anything productivity related. But, BSD is leading the charge with the ZFS file system, which is quickly becoming the best option for servers as well.

They're definitely geared more towards linux/compsci enthusiasts, but worthy operating systems tbh.
 
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I have toyed around for years and years, played around with a whole lot of distros. Still no grandlinuxwixard, i can just somewhat navigate a terminal, at my best get duke nukem and blood to run. I loveeee Mint its like windows on XP just kept getting updates.
Used to Linux (Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat/Fedora) and Unix (Solaris, RedHat, HP-UX, AIX). I personally love RedHat and Fedora, but Ububtu with auto windows setup, thats comfy to use as well. But the problem is, when it breaks, you have to know foundation commands and methods.
Used to wanna be a hacker, so I would join usenet channels and just watch and learn, hooked up with friends who had it, got jobs using it, about 10-15 years total working on unix and linux in one role type or another.
 
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Have you or anyone else used Virtual Box to setup a linux or unix instance? I could never get the damn thing to work on Windows 7.
 

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Have you or anyone else used Virtual Box to setup a linux or unix instance? I could never get the damn thing to work on Windows 7.

I did try the Virtual Box before, but frankly, the WSL2 in Win10 is an absolute lifesaver. It does contain some virtualization, but you can still interact with the filesystem, it's perfect when you need to do some work. E.g. docker has a new policy that Windows docker desktop cannot be used in the office with an appropriate license. Guess what, podman still works. :ROFLMAO:
 
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I worked with linux and unix for about a decade before I completed an Administration Program (I failed at the scripting, but we wont discuss that again) at a local Community College.

I then was temped to a small software company, which I was more of a Project Manager and SysAdmin than a SysAdmin. I failed.
I went on to contract as a SysAdmin for a decade, and five years in multi platform support and analysis. (Help Desk if you wanna be a dick about it).

So Ive been around the block. Cleaning up after hackers continually made me lose interest in hacking or pen testing, because they continually piss me off and lose my precious time to web surf on the job.

Lol. Jk but not really.
 
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