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Welcome to the Linux community!
Here in the Linux community we talk about our favorite Kernel and all the operating systems that have sprung up around it. Also feel free to post about any news, issues, or information regarding the greater open source community.
I've put a basic set of tags for posts in, and the rules are still a WIP (hopefully we won't need any more), but please feel free to suggest any tags, or changes and configurations you'd like to see in the community :)
Treat this as a sort of introductions/loadout thread. Introduce yourself (if you want), and post your setups here as replies.
Thanks for joining the Linux community!




I'm a developer and use Linux as my primary OS. I picked up Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 for my home desktop when it came out and so far it's pretty nice.
I also use Ubuntu GNOME, and absolutely love it. I've even had non-linux users compliment me on it, recognizing some of its cool features.
I'm a fairly novice Linux user. I'm okay with troubleshooting my own problems as they arise (read: frantic Googling) but trying to install Arch or a lot of the more technical conversations are over my head.
I run Fedora on my main computer, and it's my primary OS. I really enjoy it, and I was surprised at how usable Gnome 3 had become compared to when it first came out. I really dig it over the alternatives like KDE. So much so that when I reboot into Windows to install or test something, I find myself using Gnome shortcuts.
I've also learned not to upgrade immediately when a new version is release, unless I want to spend my weekend troubleshooting a complete graphics driver meltdown.
Except for the occasional issue that seems way more complicated than it needs to be I'm pretty happy with it. Like mounting a Samba share and giving the mounted location the permissions to actually let me create and delete files. Or even something super simple like trying to put your apps in Gnome 3 into specific folders without having to manually edit every shortcut (some of the apps don't appear in the Software center at all, or even if you edit them there don't actually get put in the correct folder).
And the comparatively poor but improving gaming support.
A decent Text Expander alternative would be nice. Autokey seems dead and isn't particularly intuitive to me.
But really, I do 90% of everything I need in Fedora, and switch between this and a Chromebook for work.
"And the comparatively poor but improving gaming support."
This is something we in the community have direct control over without doing any technical work, fortunately! Pester your favorite (And not favorite) game companies about adding Linux support to their games - it's the games that don't support Linux, not the other way around.
I'm basically a hobbyist sysadmin
I'm a Linux hobbyist. Started out with Red Hat back when it came on a dozen floppy disks, and have played around with most major distros, spending most of my time on Mandriva, back when it was still called Mandrake, and more recently various flavors of Ubuntu. Currently running Mint 17.3. as my daily driver.
I'll start. I'm a Linux nerd by hobby and trade. I used to be a hard Arch Linux fanboy but I became disenchanted with it a bit a few years ago, and I'm kindof distro-homeless now. Here's my setups:
Honorable Mentions - pfSense router, openELEC Rpi2
Oh and a whole slew of random virtual machines on all my systems because I have a problem.
I just use Linux to boot into my favourite OS: Emacs. :P
Jokes aside, here are my setups:
TP E460 - Arch Linux with RatpoisonWM
Used for development and on the go.
Raspberry PI - Arch Linux Arm with RatpoisonWM
Used for everyday stuff: Surfing, Mailing, Chatting, Organizing, Blogging, ...
TP 420i - Fedora Server
Headless because of a broken screen. :D My "home server", hosting a minecraft server for some friends and myself, my git hosting, samba hosting for my home network and some cron stuff I want.
Oneplus X - Cyanogen MOD
Android counts, right? :D
I use termux to do some stuff on the go, with git, emacs and shell scripts.
I use Debian on my servers, my laptops and my desktop. Never had a reason to distro hop since Debian just works for me
Hello there! I have been using Linux for a few years, now a happy KaOS user for 6 months:
The travel as been hard and long: Started with Ubuntu, then Mint... But it wasn't enough, and tried Manjaro and now KaOS/mGAME. I happily deleted my Windows partition some weeks ago, since I noticed I never used it.
I'm pretty new. I have to take a few LAMP courses next year in school, so I figured I would try and get a head start on it and make a VM with Ubuntu server. That was fun to learn about.
Today I tried installing a VM with Arch on it. It has quite the learning curve. It was really satisfying to be able to search any problems I had and be able to fix them. I can understand why people would get into Arch. Knowing what to do would be really great.
I also installed (I have gone on a spree) Debian on a VM. I really like the built in Desktop for it. I haven't really played with it a lot though.
Lastly I do have a dual boot Fedora install. I only installed it this last weekend and I really haven't used it too much. It seems OK so far. If I find that I don't like it I think I will go with Debian.
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/NPWXsY is my home PC, my work laptop is a Lenovo T450s, both running 16.04
Hi! I got a new computer a few weeks ago and was getting very tired of Microsoft in general, so I decided to learn how to use Linux. I wanted to install Arch but was a bit scared, so I started out with Manjaro. I don't like that it uses separate repositories, though, so I'm going to use Antergos instead. Maybe I'll do an install from scratch on my next pc :)
I love how powerful the shell is and how easy it is to just... do something. I wrote a script to control my GPU fan speed based on temperature and it was so simple and easy to do.
I'm still relatively new to Linux in general, but I hope to learn a lot!
I've been using Linux daily for about 2.5 years, and am a hobbyist sysadmin. I used to support Linux users daily, and now I'm that one weird guy in sales support with a penguin on his tower :)
At home, I use the latest and greatest Kubuntu on my Mac mini, while at work I use Ubuntu LTS with some customizations, including a mishmash of KDE and i3. On my various Raspberry Pis and CHIPS I run different distros of Debian, and I've got a Pine64 I've been meaning to flash. I also have a couple VPSes running Debian that I turn on and off depending on what I'm messing with and what the budget looks like. Most of the machines I have are headless and run little utilities.
Oh, and somewhere I have a couple of laptops with dead batteries running i3 and Debian...
Hi all!
I'm new to Imzy and the first post/place I looked for was Linux! :-)
I'm also new-ish to Linux, but I just love it. I run Fedora on my main computer (a gaming rig I built a few years ago, I'll add the specs later) after playing with Debian and Ubuntu before. On my free time I roam the Interwebz looking for news about the evolution of the Linux world, and these days I'm playing the native version of Rust with my brothers (got it on the recent Humble Bundle) :-)
Nice to e-meet you!
I've been running dual-booting Ubuntu since around 12.04, and have used both Unity and KDE desktop environments. I installed Xubuntu a couple of years ago and enjoy it still.
Lately, I've been playing with my Raspberry Pi, running Raspbian Jesse. It is an old Pi, the last version of the first generation, but it's perfect for running Hexchat and playing with window themes and fonts and terminal commands. I have the Pi set up like a kiosk computer, perched on top of a bookshelf: I love how little space it takes up. I just bought a Logitech K360 wireless keyboard for it. Had to install Solaar to make the Logitech Unifying USB hub work, but Solaar was easily installed from the Raspbian software centre.
As a new parent, money is tight. Free Linux distros and $35 single-board computers mean that I can have a cheap and engaging hobby!
I'm Garpu! I started using linux on April 23, 1999. Ironically the same day my fiance and I became a thing, Easter, and a day when I sprained my ankle. I wish the events were all related, but they weren't. Although my first Linux box came from my fiance, so there's that. (I traded him a loaf of homemade bread and postage.)
I started off with Debian, but got tired of the package manager, so switched to LFS. LFS was more like a full-time job to keep going (although I learned a hell of a lot.) I switched to Slackware around 2005, and that's all I use. I tried Arch. It didn't stick, and I didn't like that it's very difficult to customize, compared to Slackware, which doesn't fight you in any way. I figured if I were stuck doing all the heavy lifting and compiling myself, I might as well just use Slackware. (I wanted to try another distro for the heck of it.)
I had a Windows partition (mostly for gaming) until Vista. I haven't had one since. I do still game, and the push for Linux-native games and the improvement to WINE is a godsend. My current obsession is World of Warcraft, which I come back to every now and then.
Aside from gaming, I also do computer-music related things (mostly csound and LISP.)
I'm Luis; I'm typing this on Fedora (GNOME) on a Dell XPS13; I've run Linux on a long series of desktops (and the occasional server) for a very long time. I've worked in a variety of professional roles at a variety of Linux/software companies, but I'm now a lawyer, so my primary development tools these days are pandoc and emacs in markdown/writeroom-mode. :) Happy to be here!
Linux only user rocking Fedora 24 on a i5 Toshiba laptop. Like Gnome a lot but with extensions. I play Minecraft, Surf Reddit and now Imzy and Imgur. Podcast watching. The work side of the machine (not business work - but home support work) doc prep and email, spreadsheets for budgeting and mulling doing my own checkbook program using SQL records... --edit-- Also I have been a linux user from the days of Yiggdrassil CD Roms to install but only in the last 2 or so years have I gone Linux Only.
Now rocking Fedora 25!!
I switched to Linux after my other half maybe 10ish years ago and have been all over the Ubuntu ecosystem since then - I've made a few attempts to try out Fedora and a few others, and ran Debian for about six months, but I came back to Ubuntu Gnome ... mostly because I wasn't happy with the desktop Twitter clients.
Love Gnome 3, but I've played with KDE, LXDE, XFCE, and Cinnamon over the years. I'm a dedicated, full-time Linux user but have never really buckled down and studied to more deeply understand things. I always want to become a bit more advanced - hence the flirtation with Debian recently.
I've been running various flavors of Linux for about 4 years now. Current set up is Arch linux + dwm on a Chromebook, which has been working excellently for me. I love Linux & open source, and enjoy introducing people to the possibilities it has. I really enjoy trying out new distros for fun and breaking stuff to fix it (which I do a lot ... often unintentionally).
Hi. Been in the IT field for longer than I care to admit. Just picked up an old PC from Goodwill and immediately wiped out Windows 10 and installed Xubuntu. So far, I'm digging it. Looking forward to seeing how this place develops!
Hi everyone! I've been an on-off linux user since the late 90's, kernel 2.0.x days I suppose. After spending time with nearly every major distro I've settled on Debian Jessie with XFCE on both my laptop (x220) and desktop (i5-3570k, 16gb, 760gtx).
I've just started down the path of learning what/how to contribute to open source projects with hopes to help improve Debian in the future. Being a mediocre coder (at best) has made this goal a bit of a challenge.
By day I do IT security and data compliance (hurray for HIPPA/PCI/ISO!)
I'm Kirk, I've been using different flavors of unix since before Linux via university systems. Currently running kubuntu, primarily for Steam/GOG support. Primarily web surfing, games, a smattering of short stories, and some hobbyist programming in whatever language strikes my fancy this month.
I have been using Linux for some time. At work my team has chosen to use Debian, Ubuntu and Centos. At home I have tried many different flavours but find myself coming back to Slackware when I build a new machine. My wife runs Kubuntu because she likes the way the applications fit together.
I'm Fynn and I've been on Ubuntu for something between 4 and 5 years now, first in Dualboot with Windows and after a year in I got rid of that all together and only keep a gaming partition of it running on my desktop PC (which is rarely ever use, though).
Recently switched to 16.04 after clinging to my old LTS for far too long, always working with i3 because unity and gnome are a nightmare to me. Maybe I'll look into Arch some time because it sounds fun, but rn I'm too busy for such shenanigans.
Recent convert to Mint 18 w/ Cinnamon from openSUSE (Leap). Previous distros include RedHat (my first Linux install, it was 4.1 Vanderbilt), Slackware, Debian, FreeBSD (not Linux, but still open source), Fedora, and Ubuntu.
My machine is primarily used for image editing with RawTherapee being my goto editor, but I also use GIMP and DarkTable.
Hey folks. I've been a Linux/Unix system administrator since 1998 and currently manage around 100 servers using Puppet on Linux. My current desktop is Fedora 23 but I'm planning to upgrade to 24 once I get some spare time. I'm also a long time Debian user and have also used Slackware in the past.
I am hoooman
Another hobbyist sysadmin reporting in.
Got a couple raspberry pis around along with a server running a bunch of CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu virtual machines on top of ESXi. Main laptop is mac OS Sierra so I have a platform from which I can fix everything else I break. Got a Fedora 24 laptop around as well. A few Kali Linux vms too.
Also have Windows 10 and a couple 2012r2 servers around, but I'm more of a Linux guy at heart
you only linux once
YOLO!!!