On 07/18/2015 06:25 PM, James E Lang wrote: > The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What > operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at > work? What factors influence the choice? > > To set the tone, here are my answers: > > • I am retired so "at work" is not applicable > • At home we have a desktop dual boot Windows XP (and Ubuntu Linux) computer, > a laptop dual boot Kubuntu Linux (and pre-installed Windows Vista) computer > and several other laptop, desktop, and dedicated server (Ubuntu Linux based) > computers. I also have Android Lollipop, Android Kit Kat, and Android Jelly > Bean tablets and phones. I have nothing from Apple. > • Windows XP is used primarily for single player gaming and e-Sword Bible > software though it also is used to run LO, FireFox and Pegasus Mail > (proprietary though free of cost). > • Kubuntu Linux is my general purpose "go to" environment. My first Linux > system used what I believe was the penultimate marketed version from SuSE > before the first release of Open SuSE. I liked the flexibility that was > inherent in the KDE desktop environment and found the UI to be quite similar > to that of Windows at the time. I have briefly tried Gnome and Unity desktop > environments but KDE is my personal first choice. > • If I had a tablet computer that I thought could support my Linux usage it, > too, would run Kubuntu Linux, LO, etc. > • Apple equipment is too expensive for me and from what I've heard about the > company's software policies, they are too restrictive to suit me. > • Dual boot capabilities are seldom used to deviate from the above > information. > • The BSODs on Windows influenced my initial adoption of Linux. > >
At work, I use Windows 7. At home, I use Ubuntu Linux (64-bit) and have been a Linux devotee for years. I first switched from Windows XP to Slackware back in the late 1990s. I installed Slackware 8 from CD and installed only the base system and compiler. Most everything else, I built from sources I would download, including X11 (XFree86). :) I switched to Ubuntu around 7.04 to see what the Linux experience was like without compiling everything all the time. Now, I just don't have the time to build everything from source to keep the system updated. Peace... "The other" Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
