Comments on: What Things About Linux do You Like Best?

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By: Morten Juhl-Johansen ZÃ¶lde-FejÃ©r (mjjzf)

Morten Juhl-Johansen ZÃ¶lde-FejÃ©r (mjjzf) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:24:47 +0000

I echo that. I always have multiple systems – my primary one is also Slackware, but I also have Arch, Pardus, Gnewsense and OpenBSD, all using a 140 GB shared storage partition.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:08:21 +0000

Something that I don’t think enough people appreciate is how freaking easy it is to partition and multi-boot with Linux. I’m running Slackware 12.1 right now, but I keep an emergency Ubuntu 8.10 partition for situations when I screw something up in Slack. When I installed Ubuntu from the live CD, GRUB completely overwrote the Master Boot Record (and good riddance to LILO!) and automatically added Slackware to the boot menu.

By: Morten Juhl-Johansen ZÃ¶lde-FejÃ©r (mjjzf)

Morten Juhl-Johansen ZÃ¶lde-FejÃ©r (mjjzf) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:33:46 +0000

Good question.
First of all, I would say the mindset. When I was a Windows user, it would never occur to me to learn programming or get involved. And I believe that the same mindset teaches you to not accept things without reflection. Take for instance licensing discussions. Imagine that among Windows users, except for (the rare occasion) when they discover that they haven’t actually *bought* Windows, but have *licensed* it – in terms reminiscent of a rental agreement and a lot of “all your base are belong to us” lingo they never read along the way.
I have to use Windows for my work. It is not bad, but it is handicapped, because I don’t have essential features as my runbox, my second desktop, my tabbed browser and some other features. I have gotten so used to the toolbox of my own systems that using Windows seems antiquated.
Of course, I can appreciate the increased security, too.
Compositing and decorations are not really useful to me – I always work full screen, so why have dynamic things on my desktop? I think that things like the cube give people a spatial perception of the desktops, which is good for some people. It doesn’t mean much to me, since I have two desktops, so when I change desktops, I know where I am going.
I feel that the flexible nature of the operating system is very well exhibited with things like the OLPC – the fact that we have tools that requires so little resources that a laptop running on power from a solar panel is a viable option; that to me is en example of technology of the new century, where computer technology and environmental decency can go hand in hand.

By: runseorun

runseorun — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:52:33 +0000

Definitely shell.

By: zaine_ridling

zaine_ridling — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:00:16 +0000

For me, it’s the community. As a 1-year Linux user, I’ve depended heavily on forums, google searches, usenet, and all the helpful Linux users to help me overcome an obstacle or fix my system (twice).

But being Microsoft-free feels so GOOD, and it’s taken me a long time now to reflexively reboot once or twice a day.

By: LIE-nuchs

LIE-nuchs — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:16:25 +0000

I started using linux because my modem under windows kept dropping out, and under linux, everything worked perfectly for hours and hours at a time. This was right after windows 95 dropped.

Why I use linux (as an admin): stability. Linux systems are much hardier and stable to work on.

Why I use linux (as a programmer): high quality code to use as examples. When problem crop up, it’s possible to tell if it was my mistake, or an os/kernel/driver error.

Why I use linux (as a desktop user): configurability. I can make right click do whatever I want in whatever context I need it to (as far as the desktop goes, applications are their own beast). But my options for configuring actions, shortcuts, key bindings, and such is infinitely more configurable in linux.

Why I use linux (as a human being): promotion of freedom. Stallman might be a freaky hippy (and who in their right mind uses emacs /jk/), but the ability to share and collaborate ideas and solutions in code is important to me.

I would rather have the lingua franca of the internet be the FOSS software rather than the closed proprietary systems from yesteryear.

By: Airdrik

Airdrik — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:47:12 +0000

It’s Free, it’s secure, I have fine-grained control over My entire system from top to bottom, it’s fast, it works, no virus/malware problems.

Collaboration with the community is also a nice bonus.

By: Mutati0N

Mutati0N — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:44:47 +0000

cuz its powerful , free , and excellent environment for Development

By: Petros Koutoupis

Petros Koutoupis — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:17:35 +0000

I am a developer by hobby and profession and what attracts me to the GNU/Linux Operating System is the flexibility of the solution. I am able to customize and fine-tune components that would otherwise be inaccessible on other platforms. The source code is there and you can modify it however you wish.

The GNU/Linux Operating System has always been there for me as a great learning and productive tool. What better way to understand the many subsystem and how they all come together than to see it for yourself, in its original code might I add.

My experience has always proved my original perception to be a valid one and that is: The best developers (around the globe) come from an open source background. They feed off each other, share and learn proper ways of doing things; things usually not taught in proprietary and closed source environments.

That is why we are forever in debt to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds for pioneering these concepts and ideals.