CS student in uni here, finally looking to install a linux distro

install gentoo

Windows, because Linux is worthless. If you honestly need it (you don't) install it in a VM.

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create your own kernel

>>59172047
OpenBSD is what real men use.

Linux from scratch

Ubuntu

Mint Cinnamon. Trust me on this one. I tried XFCE, and it was a nightmare, but now that I've switched to Cinnamon, my life couldn't be easier!

>>59172047
Windows 7... oh wait

Fuck if I know, I only linux in my servers.

>>59172047
Ubuntu

>>59172151
What's the point of having a personal server? Serious question.

>>59172047
Ubuntu

>>59172163
Well the one houses LAMP setup hosting a couple personal sites as well as personal storage and backups. Have an owncloud setup too for cloud storage, calendar and contact syncing which I use instead of Google on my phone (removed all botnet).

Others house random server instances like a Minecraft server or more storage for redundant backups.

>>59172163
not the poster, but I use mine for NAS, automation of simple tasks, my own machine to SSH into from anywhere, so I always have access to my computers at home via the server, vidya gayme servers, hobby shit like that.

>>59172047

>he started to study CS before he was a GNU/LINUX master

wow ... i can already tell that you end up in some consulting firm as an IT Consultant who tries to push WIndows Services(tm) on everyone else

fucking faggot piece of shit

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>>59172047
Don't fall for the gentoo meme yet OP. Maybe after you try a few distros. For newfags, use Mint + Cinnamon

>>59172047
I entered CS using solely Windows and switched to Arch like halfway through, never looked back.

That said, when I worked in industry, Ubuntu was the defacto standard (for those people who worked on Linux, some of them used Windows only tools). Ubuntu is perfectly fine, use it.

gentoo is the easier than ubuntu

>>59172251
Lmao you didn't work anywhere relevant then. Only sysadmin retards use Linux for workstations because they think it's epic cool hacker mode

>>59172310
I think I'd kill myself if I had to use Windows every day.

>>59172251
I read that Manjaro is a really good distro if you want arch. Should i go there since it looks more user-friendly?

>>59172090
Hey NSA.

>>59172310
I was working for a fabless semiconductor company. Development activity included:
>porting gcc to embedded hardware
>writing low level software in C to run on the device
>which could only run Linux (and stripped down real time embedded versions of it)
Pull the other one, I hear it plays jingle bells.

>>59172047
(X)Ubuntu

Or any other buntu. Distro wars are a meme.

Just use Debian testing.
Save your self some time, we all end up there anyway.

>>59172047
Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or Ubuntu

But if you have a dreamspark through your uni just get your free win7 and win10 pro editions and use one of those as your main OS
Linux is a hobbyist or specific needs sorta thing

Ubuntu.

Mint''s repos are awful
Arch breaks the second you install it
Debian stable repos are worse than Mints
Gentoo is a meme
Fedora is alright

>>59172633
>Just use Debian testing.
This desu. Although I use Jessie but testing is probably be the least shitty way to use Linux as a desktop, especially since you can just import the Ubuntu packages if there is something you really want and it'll just work.

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>>59172374
was trying manjaro out 5 minutes ago, its very user friendly. pic related manjaro xfce in a virtual box, its fast as fuck, very clean, customized a bit the terminal in like 5 minutes and already looks pretty good in my opinion. it is to arch what ubuntu is to debian, more or less.

I guess they are both solid suggestions, I would go either with ubuntu or manjaro.

>>59172707
this is actually correct

>>59172047
Debian.

It's easy to install and setup, but it allows for customization.

If you don't have time for that, then Mint.

>>59172940
>allows for customization.
the level of customization on debian is pretty much the same for most distros...

As a CS student you'll have enough of a learning curve.

Ubuntu.

>>59172707
>Arch breaks the second you install it
>this is what people who have never used Arch actually believe

>>59172555
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>>59172707
>>59173154
My friend whos opinion on tech respect pretty well told me ubuntu is full of security issues. True or bs?

I use elementary os, quite a minimal and clean os

>>59173229
>full of security issues
bullshit
what it has is some proprietary spyware botnet that comes with it but you can disable

Thinkpad with openbsd

>>59173229
All Linux distros are badly written, it's inheritly insecure because it isn't being written by professionals, it's written by college kids with no real security experience.
It has no modern anti exploitation features, barely has ASLR and stack canaries for fuck sake. Anyone saying it's secure doesn't know what secure means.

>>59173229
No more than any other distro, certainly not more than other OSes. Just turn off the amazon bullshit.

Fedora liek your hero lunis

>>59173515
is this pasta

>>59172310
I use linux on my workstation because I'm the software I'm writing is going on a linux server, easier to stay in one environment where I can mimic server situations locally. I use windows at home though, but also debian personal server made of rando parts

CentOS. It's RHEL which is probably what your university labs run. Also, run it in a VM.

>>59172056
why is gentoo a meme on here?

>>59173879
The Amazon bullshit is even disabled by default on the last versions.

>>59175654
try looking at the installgentoo wiki

Tiny Core.

literally doesnt matter.

but, do yourself a favor and install it on a VM like everyone else in the world who actually has shit to do.