I'm bored, so post >your distro >reason why you chose

>your distro
Arch
>reason why you chose it
ease of getting anything since everything is on AUR
customizability
large community means lots of support and shit

>DE/WM of choice
i3

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>your distro
Gentoo, for 13 years, before ever going on /g/
>reason why you chose it
USE flags, applying patches, writing ebuilds is easy, Hardened Gentoo, weird install layouts (raid, encryption, etc.).
I'm a control freak.
Also this was the first distro I could really make work when it was not that easy to install on every machine.
Would not recommend to non-programmers.

Bonus: (choice is yours to post)
>DE/WM of choice
OpenBox, because I never took the time to learn another one.

>proprietary or open source drivers
Went from proprietary nVidia only to AMD open only.

>screenshot
here

>do not engage in distro wars, every usecase is legit and should be respected. You're open to express suggestions.
Agreed. I also use Debian and Arch for various purposes.

Arch, XFCE.

once you AUR you never go back.

>your distro
Arch
>reason why you chose it
Had been using Gentoo, but compiling packages is torture on a PII... Got a decent comp now and am planning on switching back as I'm tired of taking the systemDick.
>DE/WM of choice
spectrwm
>proprietary or open source drivers
Open AMD

>your distro
arch
>reason why you chose it
aur, wiki
>DE/WM of choice
i3 gaps
>proprietary or open source drivers
whatever just werks but i prefer open sauce
>screenshot
on phone rn

>>56244318
I want to suck her cock.

>>56244318
freebsd
so i could host shit & use as a fileserver
no wm, not even x, proprietary drivers i think

all foss guis suck, so as desktop i use os x

>>56244912
gento dont use systemd?

>>56245174
I think you can, but openRC is the default.

>Xubuntu
Just werks, unity is annoying to get rid of.

>openbox
Came from #!, I like it and does everything I need.

Windows > Linux

>your distro
Fedora 24
>reason why you chose it
Been using it for years(started around FC4), I have tried Debian, Archlinux(even helped out a bit with the i586 port back when I had a K6-2), Ubuntu, SUSE, and nothing ever felt as comfy.


>DE/WM of choice
GNOME3 on lazy days, awesome wm on productive days
>proprietary or open source drivers
proprietary

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>>56244318
>your distro
Archlinux
>reason why you chose it
went with the Manjaro meme, then decided to install plain Archlinux (that was a great idea)

>DE/WM of choice
KDE because it's comfy, i3 because I'm trying to get used to it
>proprietary or open source drivers
integrated intel graphics. I guess it's open source.
>screenshot
sure

>distro
Fedora

>why
dnf is comfy. Just switched from Arch.

>de/wm
i3

>proprietary or open source
Intel drivers, so open.

>your distro
Arch Linux
>reason why you chose it
pacman/aur/I'm comfortable in it

Bonus:
>DE/WM of choice
i3-gaps and openbox, depending on PC/laptop (respectively)
>proprietary or open source drivers
AMD open source on desktop, and closed source nvidia on laptop.

>your distro
arch
>reason why you chose it
simplicity and cute package manager
>DE/WM of choice
xmonad
>proprietary or open source drivers
I'd prefer free, but proprietary seem to be better for now

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>>56244835
>two clocks

>your distro
Korora

>reason why you chose it
I've been on Fedora since 2005 and Korora is basically hardened Fedora and was just easier to set up, my own laziness

DE/WM
i3

Drivers
Intel, so open but I'm flexible

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>>56244318
>your distro
Arch
>reason why you chose it
I fell for the meme

Bonus: (choice is yours to post)
>DE/WM of choice
Gnome/GNONE SHELL
>proprietary or open source drivers
O/S
>screenshot

>>56244835
that is gorgeous i wish i knew more about customizing linux

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>>56244318
>>screenshot

>>56246147
falling for the falling for the meme meme, eh

>>56244318
>>your distro
Arch
>>reason why you chose it
AUR and Pacman. Also good wiki

>>DE/WM of choice
Cinnamon/muffin
>>proprietary or open source drivers
Proprietary drivers

>>56244318
That girl looks scared to be around that fat cuck

Xubuntu
Just werks

>>56246457
Xubuntu is still for cucks because it's based off cuckbuntu

>>56244318
>distro
Windows 10
>reason
Just werks

>>56246474
Nice autism speak, nigger.

>look mum I said it on the Internet again! am I le C000l yet xD

fuck off back to
>>>/leddit/

>>56244318
>your distro
Debian GNU/Linux
>reason why you chose it
because it has the best security, easy install, apt is what i'm used to, is fully free as in freedom and allows the user to run proprietary software unlike commie distros like Trisquel which at the kernel level restricts it, easy to install latest hardened kernel, latest compiler, latest glibc on while using SysVinit just fine with no broken OS, it's seriously an incredible OS
>DE/WM
Enlightenment with Wayland
>proprietary or open source
FOSS drivers
>screenshot
not yet, im still setting it up but I'll post it once done

>>56246457
>>56246474
>Samefagging

>>56244318
>Thread about Linux
>>56246489
>Prajeet goes "muh windumd :DDDD"

>>56246474
Ubuntu is for niggers
Fedora is for cucks

get your memes right

>>56244318
Manjaro
Baby's first Linux
KDE is the smoothest experience.
Open source drivers. Proprietary drivers make my rig unable to boot.

>>56246509
Butthurt cuck is butthurt

>>56246533
Ubuntu is still for cucks because it's the most used Linux distro

>>56246523
Are you using stable, testing, or unstable?

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LMDE

Lightweight and low maintenance since my lappy is old as fuck and I work full-time

>your distro
kde neon
>reason why you chose it
idk its my first distro ... random choice

screentearing is horrible as fuck

OP, here.

>>56246474
>>56246509
>>56246533
Guys, keep it civil.

>>56246528
Ignore them, some people are simply stupid.

>>56246590
stable while self compiled system utilities like Linux, coreutils, glibc, etc, so it's a hackjob, stable but also in a sense muh bleeding edge

>>56246590
What's the difference

>>56246623
Unstable is prone to breaking but has the latest packages for most everything, stable includes 5 year old software, testing is less likely to break but has much more up to date packages, like year old packages, myself I like self compiling my packages and I rarely use a package manager

>>56246692
Why "stable" is stable? Is it just because of old packages?

>>56246712
Yes. They are "tested" so they are labled stable.

>>56244318
>she

>>56246733
So if I boot up stable in my Kaby lake machine, is it stable enough to work?

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>distro
Tails 4.5
>reason
Sounded fun.

>proprietary or open
Both, whichever is more accessible at the time

>screenshot
On phone, have ultra high quality pic.

>>56246754
stable enough for ur mom to suck my dick

>>56246754
As i neither use a stable distro, nor have the hardware, i recommend to either ask google about it and look out if people are having problems, or simply try it.

>>56246780
Given that you have one

>>56246794
Gmm. Google says Linux 4.5 adds support to Kaby Lake. But I'm sure Debian people patched their 3.1x kernel so it's stable for the processor

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>>56244318
>your distro
Arch (using the Architect installer)
>reason why you chose it
Ubuntu told me there's a new release. Upgraded. It broke. Figured if I'm gonna reinstall, might as well get a system I don't have to reinstall again in 6 months.
Plus, I like vanilla packages, and a system with a simpler design.

>DE/WM of choice
No strong opinions, but Cinnamon is my favorite. Pretty comfy, modern, and stays out of the way.
>proprietary or open source drivers
Everything works with free drivers, luckily. Proprietary drivers suck on a rolling release system.

>screenshot
pic related

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>>56246611
You should set vsync at full screen repaints in your settings→ Screen and monitoring (so far)→ Compositor (at me moment I'm writing this, but for people who'd read it in the archive it could obviously change at any update).

I've got this running on my T420 with specs shown in pic related, no problem.

>>56246734
>samefagging
Get the fuck out.

>>56246734
If it's a he, it's even better

>>56246528
>Using the pajeet non-argument
Spotted the autist. Many Indians are FOSS fags who like Debian and Java. Windows is for true patricians who make real software.

>>56247066
Thanks for the input, POOtella employee

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>your distro
Arch
>reason why you chose it
Lots of support and wanted to try something different

>DE/WM of choice
XFCE
>proprietary or open source drivers
No preference, whatever works best.
>screenshot

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>your distro
Void Linux
>reason why you chose it
Arch kept bugging me with some AUR packages not building. Also, i did run it for about 3 years, but i managed to brak X 2 times, one time due dev changes, one time i fucked it up myself.
As i was looking for an alternative similar to arch, i stumbled upon void.
>DE/WM of choice
Openbox
Once configured you'll never go back.
>proprietary or open source drivers
proprietary

>distro
Fedora (le tip) :^)
>Reason why you chose it
Fedora was the first Distro I ever used several years ago. I've been trying different distributions throughout the years but I just recently switched back to Fedora. They have one of the better default Gnome configurations.
>Distro/WM
GNOME/Gnome Shell
>Why?
XFCE's screen tearing is bad out of the box
KDE is bloated a bit more than Gnome
i3wm is okay, I actually love it. But if you play around too much with it you'll break it and I don't have a github for dot files or anything.

Gnome 3 is simply the quickest DE to rice to a way that *I* want my distro to be. I could build the same aesthetic on i3wm but it will take me at least 2 hours to tinker it in a way that I want it.
>prop. or open source drivers
Depends. Almost always the O/S drivers because ayymd drivers aren't great enough to justify using them.

>your distro
Ubuntu

>reason why you chose it
Linux Sysadmin as my dayjob, rather come home to something that just works with no hassles.

>>56244318
sauce on pic please

>>56247232
Some anon shooped it, i think a week ago or so.
So sauce is /g

>>56247252
I mean the girl(?)

>>56247263
I don't know

>>56244318
Please tell me it's a guy, I gotta NUT

>your distro
Ubuntu minimal
>reason why you chose it
Because I got sick of babysitting rolling release distros like arch and didn't want to selectively hackjob debian.

I stick with LTS releases and give new cycles a bit to sort any launch bugs. Minimal install because I still don't care for unity, and would rather put my own setup in.

tl;dr
I like the compromise of up-to-date packages and stability I don't need to constantly fret over.

>DE/WM of choice
Dwm
>proprietary or open source drivers
The latter is more preferable, but the former isn't entirely out of the option pool.

>>56244318
>Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>Because it's easy as fuck to use and has worked better for me than other distros I've used.
>MATE
>Proprietary NVIDIA drivers, that's it.

>>56244318
>Ubuntu
>Just Werks (corporate support)
>Unity/compiz (just works/looks nice)
>proprietary intel graphics driver

>>incoming neets pissed off about the guy who uses Linux for work.

>>56247288
>Ubuntu minimal
That's still Ubuntu, retard

>>56247306
That's a nice screenshot, buddy.
>dat theme

>>56247336
You might as well hound the xubuntu users too here then, anon.

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>>56247359
ye

Mint 17.2

Because its the only one that works flawlessly with my old macbook.

Cinnamon

I really really liked Antergos (AUR with no arch hassle) but the Mesa implementation didn't quite work.

Distro: Void Linux www.voidlinux.eu

Why?: No systemd or openRC both seemed to have stability issues at times. I've tried Sabayon (great before the Systemd switch), Manjaro, Calculate (It was good until Python wouldn't update correctly which prompted me to try something new before attempting a re-install with current media which lead to Void). I prefer the rolling release with NVIDIA drivers included in the mix.

WM: XFCE4 or Openbox sometimes Enlightenment

NVIDIA proprietary

>>56247403
I love fat asses.

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>>56247646
Why is /g/ filled with the new kind of hipsters?
>Wake up in the morning
>Go back to the terminal you left open last night for increased uptime and powerlevel

>It's Void Linux with no Xorg

>Runit instead of Systemd
>LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL
>Clang instead of GCC
>Musl instead of glibc or
>Uclibc instead of libc
>Busybox instead of coreutils
>ZSH instead of bash
>rEFIt instead of grub
>Patrician ed instead of nano
>Screeny instead of screenfetch
>Wicd instead of Network Manager
>Organic water instead of tap water


>Compile herbslutwm and install vivaldi
>Go to 4chan, browse /soc/

>Manages to chat with a "fem"anon
>"What do you do in leisure?"
>My choices of entertainment are somewhat recherché
>"Tell me more"
>Euphoric.gif
>Eat no proteins, only dead, organic vegetables
>I prefer Ballad to what you call "mainstream songs"
>I don't like smokers, I prefer vaping, guilty charged
>I own a Penny-farthing vélocipède for transportation
>femanon freaks out and stops responding

>>>/g/
>Fuck systemd botnet
>Fuck bash, noob
>Fuck GNU
>lol are you still using gcc in $currentyear?
>I personally use BSD for my primary operating system
>Muh Unix
>Muh philosophy


ISHYGDDT

>>56247721
Who doesn't?

>>56247735
Tylor shit fans

>>56247724
>he uses wicd instead of wpa_cli
>he uses screeny instead of scrot
Who you rusin here?

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is this the new desktop thread

>>56244835
Crisp.

I use 2 systems on daily basis

>your unix-like system
OpenBSD for working
FreeBSD for fun stuff

>DE/WM of choise
OpenBSD w/ ratpoison
FreeBSD w/ window maker

>reason why you chose it
They're a breeze to deploy and upgrade. I've ran plenty of linux distros and nothing seems to suit me better than bsd-land.

>proprietary or open source drivers
OpenBSD w/ open-source AMD drivers
FreeBSD w/ proprietary NVIDIA drivers

>>56247274
Pretty sure the one with RMS' head shooped on is a guy.

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>>56247724
>pic related, it's you
Go to the fresh air for 5mins, you make a lot of baseless assumptions whenever i or someone else mentions void.

>>56248022
>start liking what I like waaaaa

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Ubuntu Mate

14.04->16.04 update of my plain vanilla Ubuntu install f'd up things (no menu bars, HUD vanished, etc) Then tried Ubuntu Studio. a small mod to a menu item cause most everything in the menu to vanish, plus other little annoying bugs popped up here & there.

Ubuntu Mate's working ok so far. Some minor issues I need to figure out, but no show stopping bugs. (Why does the panel never work as expected?)

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>>56248068
Dumb lvl bait

Don't put words in my mouth, it makes you look pathetic.
Also, i did create the thread rules for a reason. Behave or fuck off, edgemaster.

Fedora 24 because Ubuntu 16.04 broke and I use MATE DE with foss drivers except for wifi.

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D E B I A N

Because

I T
J U S T
W O R K S

>your distro
fedora
>reason why you chose it
really good installer that lets me set up a pretty minimal kde in a few clicks
new packages while being more stable than bleeding edge (mostly)
pretty good 3rd party support with rpms
it isn't related to canonical
>DE/WM of choice
kde, can't see myself switching unless they really fuck things up somewhere in the future and force me to move to gnome
>proprietary or open source drivers
open source amd

>>56248284
s a u c e p l s

>>56248330
M I N X

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>>56248362
saury, pacific

>>56244318

that's one of the cutest redheads i've ever seen :3

>>56248406
they're called Minx, but I don't have the actual source of the webm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpC5w6jDReA

>>56247571

Antergos user here using an Intel graphics card. What is the problem exactly?

>>56248575

Well... This computer has Intel HD3000, and AMD Radeon 6570M.

The main problem it had (i shit you not, this is a decisive condition) is that Gzdoom wouldnt work. It would be a black screen because Mesa couldnt build a shader.

BUT, it so happens that there is this gzdoom legacy branch, which uses opengl 3, and it runs well

And i JUST FOUND OUT about that.

I installed antergos in a aux partition, isntalled gzdoom 1.9.1, and it actually runs better than in Mint

I may change my answer to this thread in a few days, because I really love AUR.

KDE Neon

Chose it initially because I like KDE and had issues with Kubuntu. Now, I prefer it because of how problem-free it is and how shockingly light on resources it is as a KDE distro. Of all the "just werks" distros I've tried, this is the most just-werkingest.

I'm using fedora, i switched to it because I fucked up my arch install and disn't want'tto reinstall.
I'm happy with it, "it just works"
it's so comfy to install and have everything running perfectly out of the box

Ubuntu minimal install

Because after the initial install I just need to install my favorite programs and setup my environment, that's pretty much it.

i3, tried using other DEs and WMs, can't really get used to any of them.

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>>56244318
>your distro
Gentoo
>reason why you chose it
Because it lets me do anything I want with my PC.

Currently migrating my / from a dual btrfs (split media) setup to a unified zfs with SSD L2ARC, feels good.

>DE/WM of choice
xgonad

>proprietary or open source drivers
nvidia proprietary. Only thing that works

>screenshot
Not the best time; have this screenshot from before the move

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>your distro
openSuse Tumbleweed
>reason why you chose it
Switched from gentoo, cause i'm still too experimental, and compiles take quite long on laptops, plus i broke pearl a couple of times might move back, oh and the timesink thing... So trying analternative bleeding edge (if i get too tired i'll go to arch...)
>DE/WM
i3 best in class
>proprietory or opensource
intel opensource
>screenshots
pic related x)

Gentoo, because it's super fast, no systems and very customizable

>DE
I use my custom WM with tint2 and PCManFM-Qt

>proprietary or FOSS
Always open source. I use the RadeonSI with my RX480

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>Distro
Arch
>Reason for choosing
No idea. AUR is nice
>DE/WM
Pretty settled on i3
>drivers
open

>>56251204
>my custom WM
Tell me more about it. Wayland support? Tiling or floating?

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>distro
Arch
>why
aur, wiki, looks like im a haxor/swag
>WM
bspwm master race
>prop or op
whatever works best

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>>56244318
Arch
I wanted a more technical, customization oriented distro that isn't ridiculous about FOSS; and it also has a large community with a lot of support. I don't really need the rolling release structure, but I don't mind it.

Openbox.
Proprietary nVidia video card drivers.
Boring desktop. Never been particularly interested in making it not look like ass. Have the current wallpaper.

>>56244897
isn't antergos basically just an installer anyway?

>>56244318
>your distro
Gentoo
>reason why you chose it
I love flags, ebuilds, and a freakishly trim kernel.
>DE/WM of choice
Openbox
>proprietary or open source drivers
Open

Arch
Stable, updated.
i3
Laptop has low specs, gnome doesn't run well.
Open, no dgpu

>your distro
Ubuntu/Unity LTS
>reason why you chose it
I used Slackware from the 90s up to about 2 years ago. Couldn't find time for the tedium of maintaining it with my kids and job. Went with the fire-and-forget method of using the most popular desktop distro. I also tried Fedora, but it's not nearly as usable out of the box for my purposes.
>DE/WM of choice
Unity. It's growing on me.
>proprietary or open source drivers
Open Intel

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>>56244318

>Running Gentoo on a Virtual machine
>Semester project i have to install it from scratch and configure it as a web server and then do a security evaluation for hardening

Bonus: (choice is yours to post)
>KDE it was easier to install really
>VM Drivers, but i preffer OSD for linux (would have used propetary for hardening)

This is it.

>>56244318
Manjaro because pacman for normies

i3 because multiple monitors, no need for floating/snapping windows
porpitery, open source one day but I see no harm for now
gnome-screenshot because audio and visual cue

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>>56252604
geez, I sure am retarded

>>56244318
PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME HER NAME

>>56252620
hello kevin, how's the schoolwork going?

>>56244318
Xubuntu
So I could play league of legends
i3, so I could control what monitor league is on
nvidiot, so I could play league

Literally what I spent today on. Fucking manjao was perfect except my pleb entertainment.

>>56252634
horribly. Haven't posted anything in a week. Gonna DDOS me?

>>56252628
>>56252628
someone pls i beg u

>>56244318
>Arch
>Wanted something with rolling release after my ubuntu installation fucked up itself trying to upgrade to a new release.

>Plasma 5.7
>Proprietary AMDGPU-PRO
>No screenshot, posting from cellphone

>>56252668
at least gimme the original pic so i can search

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>your distro
Windows

>reason why you chose it
Getting to use both Windows and Linux binaries side-by-side without dual-booting or loading a virtual machine means that I have way more programs available to me than if I just chose Linux.

>>56245647
Shoo

>>56251387
It does both. It's X rn, but I plan to make a Wayland version and publish both.

It's based off of Tinywm, but really the only added functionalities are menus, tiling and window grouping. It runs in <1MB RAM though, so that's nice.

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>>56244318
>your distro
Debian.
>reason why you chose it
Stable and well supported with a nice community. I also like the logo.
>DE/WM of choice
I use KDE. It looks nice, works well, and even has KDE Connect which is great. I mostly use it for easy file sharing and remote input.
>proprietary or open source drivers
Oben Sores.

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>>56252690
Here's a desktop screenshot for bonus points:

>>56252694
good luck, anon.

>>56244318
>arch
>pacman is only good manager

>>56252690
Congratulations, you use Windows.

>distro
at work: windows / centos (sort of)
at home: ubuntu

>reason
I work for a company that uses an in house heavily modified version of centos for their systems. Windows or mac are on the machines used for management and support. I use ubuntu at home because it plays nicely with my hardware out of the box and I don't go home to put effort into making my computer work. Operating systems and the software on them are just tools and a means to an end.

>DE
Gnome on my machines, HTML5 fuckery (at least it's pretty) at work (usually just ssh in though).

>drivers
Whatever makes it work the best, I'm not picky or ideological.

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>Distro
Arch Linux

I like it. It's probably not much better than any other distro, but I like it more than say Ubuntu or Mint.

> DE / WM
Gnome 3 / Mutter

> Drivers
Open source

>>56252846
Thanks my nigga
First thing I do after publishing it will probably be posting about it on /g/

>distro
arch on laptop/gentoo on desktop
>reason
pacman and fast to get things working/USE flags, openRC and stability

>DE/WM
i3/none (using as a headless server cause my monitor broke)

>drivers
proprietary nvidia on both

>sceenshot
nothing to see, everything pretty much on default

>>56253275
>reason : pacman
what did he meant by that

>>56244912
I've heard a lot of criticism of systemD. What is so bad about it?

>>56253476
pacman is Arch's package manager

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>your distro
Debian
>reason why you chose it
I prefer apt and I like having many different branches to choose or fall back onto when installing packages. I also like large repositories and was not a fan of potential security and dependency issues with community repositories I've used on other distros in the past. It generally also tends to be well supported, but I'm kinda shooting myself in the foot with regards to that for using the unstable branch.

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>>56244318
>your distro
Debian
>reason why you chose it
A long time ago I was a huge free software evangelist and Debian was endorsed by GNU so it was obvious. Now I'm less of a free software evangelist but I am a Debian developer so I guess that's the main reason I stick with it.

>DE/WM of choice
i3 for life

>>56253476

why are you in this thread if you don't even know what a package manager is?

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>>56254044
be gentle to those less free than us, please.

>>your distro
Slackware

>>reason why you chose it
It installs on every computer flawlessly (thanks to the default xboxhueg kernel), and it's really simple and nice. Quite literally just werks™

>Bonus: (choice is yours to post)
>>DE/WM of choice
KDE

>>proprietary or open source drivers
Proprietary Nvidia drivers

>>56244318
Antegos (Arch) Linux because I needed a quick distro that was > 600mb to fit on a CD after moving and it was 3:00am.

It constantly updated hundreds of megs per day.

Userland broke numerous times for no reason

>>56248141
>lol bait xDD
What can a 50lbs vegan do when he gets mad? I am curious. I'd stomp the veggies out of your poorfag stomach if you meet me in person, fragile hipster shit

Sydney

>>56244318
Using Arch Linux with the i3 window manager.
I like it because of the fine control I have throughout the whole system. i3 is great because it really speeds up my workflow

>>56246489
What a funny joke

>>56253559
>>56244912
Most people hate systemd because of bugs and trying to replace too many things, but i don't use systemd because wikileaks posted an article saying how redhat is working for the nsa and put spyware in systemd desguised as bugs in the code.

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>>56244318
>Ubuntu
I was fine and happy with debian, but there were too many issues with sound, so I tried Ubuntu 16.04 and both the sound and so many other little things worked out of the box that I havent felt a need to change.

>Unity
It's kinda heavy but since this laptop used to run windows 10 its really an improvement. Though I had to disable some keybindings to free up f1 (havent looked at doing super and alt yet)
>Drivers
Whatever works, open source is preferable but if its not available or theres a performance penalty...

>>56255577
>but i don't use systemd because wikileaks posted an article saying how redhat is working for the nsa and put spyware in systemd desguised as bugs in the code.
source?

>>56244318
>distro
Kali
>reason for usage
Research

>debian gnu/linux
>light, stable, up to date, upstream
>xmonad
>open source
>no screenshot because it's just xmonad

>>56252529
What terminal is that on windows?

>>56244318
>Ubuntu
>I'm only mildly autistic

>Distro
Manjaro

>Reason to use it
Too dumb too install arch

>DE/WM
xfce/xfwm

>proprietary or open source drivers
open source, because it werks fine

>>56244318
Debian
It just werks
Gnome
Open source
It's headless, can't screenshot

>>56244356
Are you me?

>your distro
Antergos and Korora

>reason why you chose it
CBA to set up Grub with EFI and I have a convoluted system (1 120gb SSD dualbooting with Windows, 1 1TB HDD for Windows data, 1 1TB HDD for ~, and 1 3TB HDD for extra storage) that I didn't want to fuck up. Also, Korora is nice.

>DE/WM of choice
Cinnamon. Besides non-existent Wayland support it just works for me.

>proprietary or open source drivers
My PC was built to be a gaming rig, so proprietary. Both suck compared to the Windows drivers though.

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>>56244318
>your distro
Ubuntu
>reason why you chose it
Everything else didn't work or broke over time

>DE/WM of choice
i3-wm
>proprietary or open source drivers
don't know, don't care

>>56244318
>Fedora 24 LXDE.
>Lightweight enough and it "just werks".

>>56244318
>your distro
Gentoo (no Really)
>reason why you chose it
Customization and optimization, USE system along with Portage is one of the best package managers I've seen when it doesn't fuck up (usually because I did something)

>DE/WM of choice
Mate

>proprietary or open source drivers
Whatever gets the job done.

>>56244318
WHO IS THIS?

>>56256893
If you don't recognize Richard Stallman you don't belong here, tbqh.

>>56244318
>debian
> Easier to do a minimal install than Ubuntu

>xfce
It runs pretty efficiently but doesn't take a ton of time setting up like a WM

>>56256910
legitimate lol'd

>>56244318

>your distro
PCLinuxOS

>reason why you chose it
no systemd

>DE/WM of choice
KDE

>proprietary or open source drivers
open source AMD

>>56247724
Have seen this pasta a couple of times.

Ubuntu
It's why my school's supercomputer uses
Terminal
Proprietary
Impossible

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>>56244318
>your distro
arch linux.
>reason why you chose it
So like most, I started from an ubuntu flavor. However, dist-upgrades between versions was driving me mad. Every time I did, something stopped working, but I could never find the documentation necessary to fix it. So I just had to deal with annoying errors.

Then I installed arch after a while, because "hey, why not?" I was interested in a more friendly package manager. On my X220, Fell in love with it. Nothing has ever broken on me seriously, and I don't have to deal with weird dependencies or adding ppa's mindlessly.

I also tried debian, but the way their repository works is fucking bananas. I like testing for what it is, but there was a weird lack of certain packages. So I tried upgrading to unstable, and then suddenly those packages had no candidate either even though they were there. Never fun into a problem like this on arch, and I got tired of fighting with the OS just to install some minor shit. The hardest part of arch is installing it. I like the arch philosophy, and rolling release distros are pretty nice.

>DE
MATE & Xfce. Sometimes KDE. KDE is still buggy as fuck though.

I run compiz on my desktop.

>Drivers
Proprietary unless open source ones work. Never do. t. broadcom)

>>56257406
It's the same mad ubuntufag all the time.
He can't get over it that some people dislike systemd, so all he can spout is "hipsters"!! 1

>>56244318
crunchbang because installing literally couldn't be easier and I've never had to update shit.

>>56252918
Thanks for the congrats.

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>>56244318
>Xubuntu
>Because i'm handicapped with other distros

One day i'll learn

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>your distro
Arch GNU/Linux
>reason why you chose it
Wanted to give something with newer packages a try after a few years of using Debian Testing and Sid. The result has been a lot more stability and I am very happy. I would still like to try NixOS in the future, but otherwise I am probably not ever distro-hopping again.

>DE/WM of choice
openbox
>proprietary or free software drivers
p-proprietary ;-;
>screenshot
pic related

>>56244318
sauce on redhead plz

>Distro
Ubuntu
>Why
Easy as pie to get set up, and with a lightweight wm its really not that bad
>WM
I3, configurable and nice looking

>>56244356
>>56256347
Arch + i3 is pretty famous combination

Kali with xfce
Chose it to be a leet haxx0r and get my neighbor's wifi, stuck with it since it just werkz

>>56246523
Do you mean you download the source packages from testing/sid and compile them inside debian stable? Can you even do that? I'd like to try rust, but the compiler is available only in testing, and i don't want to fuck up my whole system (glibc, xorg, etc...).

>>56259130
This other than the XFCE part

>>56244356

This tbqph, but on my thinkpad.

My home server is running Ubuntu 16.10 LTS and my desktop runs botnet10 for games.

>>56244318
Ubuntu running in a vm on win 10
Because I needed something to compile my android OS which is close to impossible on win
Xfce material design

>>56244318
>Gaming/workstation desktop
Windows 10 Pro
Upgraded from 8.1 Pro, don't personally see much reason to go and switch to Enterprise. This machine is used to gayming, so Windows works.

>Laptop
Windows 10 Pro
Normally I'd run openSUSE on this, but after switching down to Leap from Tumbleweed and wanting to go back to Tumbleweed, I found that Tumbleweed's installer was broken at the time.
Couldn't be bothered to fix it, so I decided to see if Windows 10 has improved anything regarding laptop usability since I now have access to the Linux tools I need for work through WSL anyway. Maybe I'll go back to openSUSE after a while.

>DigitalOcean VPS
Debian 8.1 Jessie
Sometime around 200 days ago I hadn't used openSUSE yet, so the choice for a server distribution was Debian. I miss zypper, but whatever. It works and I can't be fucked to bring this server down just to switch distro.

>Home server/VM running off desktop
openSUSE Leap
It just werks(TM), generally nicer to work with than Debian.

>DE/WM of choice
Obviously Explorer on Windows. While using Linux on my laptop, I found myself coming back to KDE Plasma 5.x in spite of its instability thanks to its multimonitor functionality and Qt framework.

>your distro
Ubuntu
>Reason why you chose it
It's easy to use.

>DE/WM of choice
I mostly alternate between i3-gaps and xfce4. I'm actually using Unity at the moment because I'm too lazy to change it.

>>56247817
this is great.

>>56245647
Wouldn't trade the command line for sure.

>>56260959
>gaming
kys desu familia

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>>56244318

>Arch
>Liked the logo

>Awesome
>Proprietary

>>56244318
>no stallman pasta
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>56244356
>>56244870
>>56244912
>>56245012
>>56245785
>>56245910
>>56245948
>>56246147
>>56246375
Why are there so many Arch hate threads on /g/, when it looks like most people here are using it?

>>56262404
Wouldn't the opposite be a contradiction? If nobody seriously used it, there would be no incentive to make fun of it constantly

>>56262404
People hate arch because the users are the ones that post in threads like this to show off.

>>56262229
>>Arch
oh fucking look here, arch with anime desktop.

how fucking original...

>>56262418
Whatever floats your boat man. Why does everything have to be new and original?

>>56244318
My friend got me into Linux. He uses Mint so he recommended that to me. Tried it, fell in love with FOSS and the idea behind it. Switched to Debian after I failed to install Gentoo (I'm going to try again soon) because Mint is really similar but Debian doesn't come with proprietary software.

The only proprietary package on my system is the wifi driver. I think replacing the wificard in a T420s and making it work requires flashing the BIOS so that'll be a project for the future.

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>>56262418

I never said I was trying to be original anon.

>>56262404
arch is for virgin boys as they can devote all those hours to installing and ricing their systems.

sadly, telling others about your quest to install wifi on that autistic os isn't gonna be as interesting and some other guys chat about the latest chav he's fucked.

>>56255577
I really need source on that. What's a systemd alternative? Do I need to reinstall my distro?

>>56262465
not saying it needs to be all the time but for fuck sake guys, vary it a bit eh.

>>56262532
How about you post your original setup?

>>56262505
>what's a systemd alternative?
openrc or runit are examples there are more
>Do I need to reinstall my distro?
probably, there is a guide for removing systemd from arch but other distros don't support another init so you have to install a different distro.

>>56262471
I bought a Magic deck for me and a girlfriend of mine, you're just frustrated.

I'm struggling with pia and I suspect my university's ISP to directly block PIA's VPN servers. However I've been on my computer for 2 hours today. By the way I'll disconnect right now.

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>your distro
ubuntu gnome 16.04

>reason why you chose it
because it gets along with my laptop's hardware out of the box, i prefer stability over bleeding edge, and i've never liked unity

>your distro
Windows 10
>reason why you chose it
Because Mac is shit and Linux is ugly as fuck

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how come I rarely see anyone here using MATE?
is it because
>GTK+2

>>56251229
that wasn't jordan btw

>distro
Windows 7
>reason
Gaming

>>56244318
Devuan, I don't want to spend large amounts of time configuring it, and it seemed like the best choice (no systems, stable, good support)

Xfce or i3
Proprietary, my computer is NSA'd anyway
On mobile right now, but it's the exact same as post-install but with a panel.

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>>56252680

Praise my name

>>56264477
I also have her instagram

>>56264512
Care to share?

>>56264477
>it's reversed
you cheeky cunt

no wonder I couldn't reverse search it

>>56264579
https://www.instagram.com/ur.little.fox/

>>56264675
thank you

xubuntu

just werks

>>56264675
that sucks, she doesnt post anything....