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Out of curiosity, for how long have you been using Linux as a daily driver?
by anothergoogler 8y ago
Out of curiosity, for how long have you been using Linux as a daily driver?
- asark 8y agoTo respond to the implied dig, I've spent months to years using the following distros on desktops and laptops, in no particular order: Gentoo, Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandrake So I've had plenty of exposure to three major package management systems and a bunch of distro-managed repos, from the perspective of a desktop user (I've used Linux on the server plenty, too, but that's less directly relevant). I've poked around in a few others in a desktop context—Slackware, Arch, Nix, probably more that I'm forgetting. I also used Macports for over a year. Homebrew's the most pleasant overall solution for managing user-facing desktop software that I've used, by a long shot.
- Zarel 8y agoI use macOS as my daily driver. I've been using CentOS and Ubuntu Server to run my webservers for around twelve years now, which includes a top-1000 website in the US. I used to manually compile things like Node.js and ripgrep from source to get up-to-date versions, but these days I just use Linuxbrew.