Question for all you Linux users. Does anyone here use a Linux distribution for productivity? Work, studying...

i started using debian in undergrad, 2005. i wrote my phd thesis project to run on debian, about 18k loc. my current employer owns tens of thousands of debian machines.

consumers have no fucking clue where the jobs and money really are in the computer industry. there are many billions of dollars thatnever touch consumer-facing software. the top500 supercomputers all use linux, without exception. between one and two thirds of the world's web servers use linux. who the fuck cares about desktop market share? i don't write GUIshit, I write distributed systems

I use mine for everything

I used to use debian testing as a daily driver, 3d modeling, graphics editing, programming, playing games etc., but the last time I updated it it broke my installation and I've no idea how to fix it, so I'm back to Windows

Basically the rule of thumb is that if you see a screencap of someone with less than 1500 packages, you can be sure they only use Linux for shitposting and watching anime, you can not use Linux as a daily driver for more than a month without going beyond 1500 packages eventually, especially considering that things like LaTeX and programs native to DEs you're not using can have hundreds of dependencies
Anything over 2000 packages is too much, though

For industry standard projects, I use a Mac. Bash works fine and most open source software that is available on linux is readily available for mac. For fucking around and making shitty android apps or modding lineage OS, I use linux. I have an awesome distro on my desktop.

Never dicking with Microsoft again. I'll use it on a separate disk, I'll use visual studio code or play a few games every now and then, but I unplug that disk after every use.

I'm work for a mechanics company, and I also do contract development for a few others.

I totally meant just plain Visual Studio, not code. That shit works on everything.

(cont) and yes, at work I am using dwm, urxvt, vim with a million plugins, a mouseless hotkey setup, long-ass shell pipeline commands, solarized, etc. i do this for productivity, not for unix porn

I have my own software company.
Most of my employees use Manjaro, as do I.

based realbro over here

there's no need to care about desktop market share, though I do love my shiny debian client. does what it needs to do.

most of my computing occurs on OBSD, but that's not "computer work" so much as a place to manage my email and publish wetlab work.

you're probably right to focus on distributed linux systems, as that's what everyone uses except for a few weirdos like me

if you work on linux systems then I think it's wise to use linux at home, simply to stay comfy with it. it's so often that i have to ssh into a server and scrape it for data or set up some weird perf measurement task, and when i do that fluency with find and tmux really saves time

At work I use Ubuntu running in a VM, using i3 and vim running inside urxvt, its a pretty dull looking setup, but works very well. I'm devops/backend, mostly using python and go. For productivity running your dev environment in a VM is great so you can snapshot and you don't have to worry about driver issues. Also, if you backup your vm to an external drive you can recover after a laptop dies effortlessly

Yeah, I use OpenSUSE Leap with KDE as my day to day operating system. I use Libre Office Calc for managing my finances, I use Writer for typing out letters and emails, KMail for my emails, Firefox for web browsing and shitposting. Everything just works. At this point you'd have to be retarded not to use Linux.

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yeah, tmux is my saving grace

I like to leave my webshit job and go home to the same session without any hassle

also, my VPS provider basically stopped having bandwidth quotas, so I can proxy all my traffic through a secure connection

I use ubuntu at work as a web developer and gentoo at home for fun

I get shit every time I post my desktop in one of those threads, but the fact is I use CentOS because my clients use either CentOS or RHEL and it keeps me able to mimic issues or prototype shit before standing it up in their environments. I don't need games under Linux, although I do keep Steam and MAME on my CentOS 7 desktop just to de-stress without having to flip over to Windows.

>screenshots of their minimal setups with very few packages
>he doesn't know those are vm snapshot
sweet summer child

I have used Debian my entire life. Went through my entire university career with it, never had to dual boot windows. All you need is LibreOffice or an in browser word processor for documents, vscode or brackets for programming, and steam for muh gayms. Firefox nightly for web browsing. Simple, lightweight setup.

It would look like a default install.

I use it the same way I use windows, doing nothing productive.

Some time ago I used to work in a company as a programmer. A lot of pc was old and we had to do our best with what we had. I would use #! Linux and sublime , Cordova for mobile applications.

Luke, is that you?

Mint cinnamon w/defaults is my daily driver. Everything just werks

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