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by Fluxxx

Ok, I don't think I've posted this any where, but I've become a Linux user. I've played with a few versions, but settled on Manjaro Xfce.

So far in the last couple of months, I've bought two computers to replace one of my tablets, and my rather ancient eMachines D525, along with replacing my tablet with a newer one, and my phone.

All the details on what I've been up to, all of my misadventures can be found on my blog, enjoy.

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GreenReaper

7 years, 4 months ago

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We use Linux for Inkbunny, too! Debian with all the bits stripped out of the kernel.

We even take out stuff like quota support (because it reduces the size of ext4 inodes in RAM, allowing us to pack more in) and suspend/hibernation - because who does that to a server, really? Probably just the mean people who want a copy of that RAM. :-p

Fluxxx

7 years, 4 months ago

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@ GreenReaper

For me it was a somewhat unplanned transition, I was on a Mac only to have it die on me abruptly. I had been puttering with Linux on an old beater laptop (dead batter, dead optic drive, eMachines D525), so I had something to fall back on, but if you look at the specs and compare them with a 2010 iMac, you can imagine it wasn't impressive. Finally its been replaced, and the new one rocks.

That's the beauty of Linux, isn't it? If you know what you're doing, you can reshape it to your needs.

GreenReaper

7 years, 4 months ago

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@ Fluxxx

Indeed! It helps you squeeze the most out of what you have - important for keeping costs down. We'd rather everyone spent their money on commissions than sever donations. :-D

I've had to fallback to Linux once or twice when Windows got messed up for one reason or another; I run it in a local VirtualBox for IB backup purposes which can also boot to the hardware. Feels crazy to run a 64-bit OS in 32-bit Windows (I have a very old Vista Ultimate install that I keep going with a hacked kernel to allow it to address 32GB RAM), but it works out.

Fluxxx

7 years, 3 months ago

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@ GreenReaper

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GreenReaper wrote:

Indeed! It helps you squeeze the most out of what you have - important for keeping costs down. We'd rather everyone spent their money on commissions than sever donations. :-D

I've had to fallback to Linux once or twice when Windows got messed up for one reason or another; I run it in a local VirtualBox for IB backup purposes which can also boot to the hardware. Feels crazy to run a 64-bit OS in 32-bit Windows (I have a very old Vista Ultimate install that I keep going with a hacked kernel to allow it to address 32GB RAM), but it works out.

Hmmm, definitely have to start donating. I really like that attitude, keeping it efficient isn't always easy, but its an approach that I consider a virtue.

I'm lucky, I just surf the web, email and proofread erotic fiction (and occasionally write it), so any OS works. I like or rather liked OS X, I'm not real happy with how Apple is locking it down these days, but Linux meets my needs just as well. Oh, and just got a new computer, its amazing how cheap basic computing is these days, $339 for a Lenovo M700 Tiny, basically a laptop without the screen, keyboard, etc.

GreenReaper

7 years, 3 months ago

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@ Fluxxx

You might be interested in our recent lease, then!

Computing power has increasingly become a commodity, and this empowers people to do things which weren't previously possible. Sometimes a lot of what we do with such devices seems trivial; but it's important to end-users, and that's what matters. Plus you can use spare CPU/GPU/RAM to help solve cancer and search for distant stars. :-D

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