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kio_http
November 12th, 2009, 08:32 PM
Consider Ubuntu didn't exist, which linux distribution would you be using.

Or, would you still be with Windows or OS X

Twitch6000
November 12th, 2009, 08:35 PM
There was a topic on this already..

Since I do not use Ubuntu I would just stick with OpenSuse =].

xuCGC002
November 12th, 2009, 08:36 PM
Debian.

NoaHall
November 12th, 2009, 08:36 PM
Arch.

aysiu
November 12th, 2009, 08:37 PM
I probably would have switched to Mac OS X.

TuckLive
November 12th, 2009, 08:37 PM
Probably Debian.

LowSky
November 12th, 2009, 08:37 PM
OpenSuse or Fedora. I was looking into both when I stumbled on Ubuntu many years back. But maybe it would be Arch as I do like it's annoying KISS philosophy and its Pacman application is very nice.

Benchamoneh
November 12th, 2009, 08:40 PM
A while ago I would've said Fedora but I've really been converted by the package manager system so now I'd opt for Debian

kio_http
November 12th, 2009, 08:40 PM
Myself probably OpenSuSe or debian.

wojox
November 12th, 2009, 08:40 PM
Arch FTW...

MasterNetra
November 12th, 2009, 08:43 PM
I would still be hopelessly stuck with windows. Ubuntu is what brought me back to Linux after the initial distro search failure.

jerrrys
November 12th, 2009, 08:49 PM
Probably where ever this fantastic forum ended up :D

ve4cib
November 12th, 2009, 08:51 PM
My first distro was Ubuntu, so it's hard to say what I'd be using if it never existed. I think the options are...

1- Still on Windows - this is sadly the likeliest outcome, barring any outside intervention.

2- Fedora - back when I was in school my university had a handful of Fedora machines scattered around the common labs, and the Comp Sci department had a couple of labs filled entirely with Fedora boxes. Seems likely that I would go for what I was using at school.

3- (Open)Solaris - rather unlikely, but I had to use SSH into Solaris machines for a bunch of second-year courses. Again, I might have "gone with what I know" in terms of alternate OS options.

coldReactive
November 12th, 2009, 08:52 PM
Fedora or Sabayon or just stick with Windows.

PuddingKnife
November 12th, 2009, 08:53 PM
I'd have given up on Winders for OSX.

ZankerH
November 12th, 2009, 08:54 PM
I only use Ubuntu on my main desktop PC. Others use Debian, Fedora and Arch, so I'd probably be using one of those on the main desktop as well. Fedora seems most up to the task I use Ubuntu for - a working, functional desktop out of the box.

Shibblet
November 12th, 2009, 09:03 PM
If Ubuntu didn't exist, we wouldn't be using Mint or gOS. I'd probably have to say Debian. I would say Mandriva, but it's just too darn slow.

RaZe42
November 12th, 2009, 09:07 PM
Linux Mint? /s

On a more serious note: I would probably have started with Fedora (and then progressed onto Arch, as I did from Ubuntu)

XubuRoxMySox
November 12th, 2009, 09:57 PM
Prob'ly Mepis, or some other Debian-based newbie-friendly distro.

-Robin

Greg
November 12th, 2009, 09:58 PM
Arch... I actually never used Ubuntu as my main system.

23dornot23d
November 12th, 2009, 10:07 PM
Mandriva probably as it is very stable ....... 2009 .....

I run a multiboot sytem ..... with Elive Kanotix Mandriva Ubuntu 8.10 .....

I did have UBUNTU 9.04 but the upgrade to 9.10 has made it impossible for me to get it back ......
( now even tried a clean install ..... gets stuck on the swap partition .... for some reason ....
It works ok off a flash drive ,,, now though - I installed it from UBUNTU 8.10 though as it would not
install from the 9.10 CD )

coldReactive
November 12th, 2009, 10:11 PM
Mandriva probably as it is very stable ....... 2009 .....

I run a multiboot sytem ..... with Elive Kanotix Mandriva Ubuntu 8.10 .....

I did have UBUNTU 9.04 but the upgrade to 9.10 has made it impossible for me to get it back ......
( now even tried a clean install ..... gets stuck on the swap partition .... for some reason ....
It works ok off a flash drive ,,, now though - I installed it from UBUNTU 8.10 though as it would not
install from the 9.10 CD )

Too bad that MandrivaOne doesn't come in CD size, I hate burning DVDs.

Viva
November 12th, 2009, 10:16 PM
fedora

John Bean
November 12th, 2009, 10:25 PM
Hard to say. Before I chanced on Ubuntu (7.10) I had avoided Linux, mostly using a dual-boot of Windows for work and FreeBSD for most other day-to-day stuff.

Would I ever go back to FreeBSD after using Ubuntu? Unlikely. But had Ubuntu never existed I guess I'd still be a Unix rather than Linux user.

blur xc
November 12th, 2009, 10:43 PM
Ubuntu freed me from Windows...

If I didn't know about Ubuntu, or even worse yet, never existed, I'd sadly be running Vista Home Premium on my home build pc. Vista pisses me off everytime I boot into it. I avoid it like the plague.

BM

Incense
November 12th, 2009, 10:48 PM
OpenSuse is on my main work station, and I'd just install it on my notebook and netbook as well. Was using SuSE long before Ubuntu came about.

hyperdude111
November 12th, 2009, 10:49 PM
Opensuse / Debian / Fedora

Or even OSX if the prices were cheaper

Zorian144
November 12th, 2009, 10:58 PM
I'm really new to actually using Linux (I registered last year as my friend told me to), so I would just choose the most popular. Right now Ubuntu seems to be the most popular so I went with it.

John Bean
November 12th, 2009, 11:22 PM
Vista pisses me off everytime I boot into it. I avoid it like the plague.
I know exactly what you mean. I still have to use Windows occasionally for various reasons and have just spent money on a XP licence to replace the Vista that was pre-installed on the laptop I'm currently using. I'm ambivalent about Windows in general having used NT4/Win2k/XP professionally for over a decade as a developer, but I find Vista to be unusable; it winds me up to the point I can't get any work done on it and often come close to doing physical damage in sheer frustration. It's got to be close to the world's worst desktop OS ever.

Exodist
November 12th, 2009, 11:24 PM
Re: Which distribution would you be using if Ubuntu did not exist?

Same one I am using now.. Debian of course!! :popcorn:

e-Gee
November 12th, 2009, 11:25 PM
Linux Mint :lolflag:

Dirtpile
November 12th, 2009, 11:27 PM
Most likely openSUSE for me. Especially considering it was my first taste of linux.

pedja_portugalac
November 12th, 2009, 11:29 PM
Debian or Gentoo.

Regenweald
November 12th, 2009, 11:36 PM
Opensolaris.

Jekshadow
November 12th, 2009, 11:38 PM
Probably Debian.

Digikid
November 12th, 2009, 11:40 PM
PCLinuxOS.

dragos240
November 12th, 2009, 11:42 PM
Arch, gentoo, something fun.

Wild_Duck66
November 12th, 2009, 11:42 PM
Before Ubuntu I used to purchase SuSE Linux Professional with Mandrake Power Packs in between. These came with a load of games etc to install and Nvidia drivers, then came OpenSusie. I could`nt stand the KDE slow sliding menu and RPM`s did`nt work properly. Then I tried Ubuntu, never did like Gnome but Synaptic made up for it. I now use Kubuntu (with Synaptic installed) and a traditional menu launcher. If Ubuntu ceased to exist I would return to OpenSusie.

SuperSonic4
November 12th, 2009, 11:43 PM
Arch with a Mandriva live CD in case hardware did not work properly in arch

Kunkles
November 12th, 2009, 11:58 PM
Probably Debian, because that's what I grew up on :x

Either that, or opensuse

ensign.dan
November 13th, 2009, 12:09 AM
Fedora, Debian, Slackware (I don't know in which order;) )

Old_Grey_Wolf
November 13th, 2009, 01:03 AM
Something that does not take very long to set up; such as, CentOS or Fedora.

ibutho
November 13th, 2009, 01:06 AM
openSUSE, Fedora and Debian in that order.

csiv
November 13th, 2009, 01:28 AM
Debian is the base for Ubuntu, Knoppix, and many of the other best distros imo. Plus before they existed that's what I used.

jeffxmora
November 13th, 2009, 01:29 AM
I never tried Mandriva but if Ubuntu does not exist I will give it a try

andymorton
November 13th, 2009, 01:32 AM
If Ubuntu had never existed then I'd most likely still be using Windows. If Ubuntu disappeared tomorrow then probably either Fedora or Mandriva.

Zoot7
November 13th, 2009, 01:39 AM
openSUSE

what, what?
November 13th, 2009, 01:54 AM
Id still be using windows

Frak
November 13th, 2009, 03:08 AM
Windows, OS X, and Funtoo

Ubuntu won't be my main system for a long time.

mwalimu54
November 13th, 2009, 03:45 AM
Xp

peakpc
November 13th, 2009, 04:09 AM
As Ubuntu was the first easy to download easy to install and worked everthing out of the box (execpt wirless easy fix). the others I tried had problems with sound (at that time) Now if I had to do it all over again I would say that I would have probably gotten one of the others to work with some tinkering, say Fedora or openSuse, maybe Puppy or even Mepis. APT is king but Debian seems a bit behind the times for me, though I like what others have done with the testing branch so maybe some other group would have come up in Ubuntus place. Innovation is inevitable.:)

wulfgang
November 13th, 2009, 04:26 AM
Debain, or Linux Mint. (but Linux Mint basicly is ubuntu.)

coldReactive
November 13th, 2009, 04:27 AM
Linux Mint. (but Linux Mint basicly is ubuntu.)

Won't be after ubuntu-software-center makes you pay for codecs. ;)

Frak
November 13th, 2009, 04:36 AM
Won't be after ubuntu-software-center makes you pay for codecs. ;)
I would hate for that to happen, but at the same time, I REALLY want that to happen.

Warpnow
November 13th, 2009, 04:39 AM
I would hate for that to happen, but at the same time, I REALLY want that to happen.

Why?

K.Mandla
November 13th, 2009, 04:41 AM
Consider Ubuntu didn't exist, which linux distribution would you be using.

Or, would you still be with Windows or OS X
Arch Linux, or Crux Linux.

Oh wait, that's what I use anyway. :lol:

RiceMonster
November 13th, 2009, 04:42 AM
Fedora and Arch like I already am.

coldReactive
November 13th, 2009, 04:44 AM
I would hate for that to happen, but at the same time, I REALLY want that to happen.

They plan to do it actually, once they integrate everything. (Notice the nice little "Price:" line?)

Frak
November 13th, 2009, 04:46 AM
Why?
Makes Ubuntu a more commercially viable alternative. Still a bunch of broken pieces to fix, but it helps out toward the long goal.

coldReactive
November 13th, 2009, 04:48 AM
Makes Ubuntu a more commercially viable alternative. Still a bunch of broken pieces to fix, but it helps out toward the long goal.

Just remember, when you buy the codecs for one version of 'buntu, you have to rebuy it for the next version (just like how it is now) if you want true support.

This is how most companies are starting to work for computers and games/etc.

When Sony makes the PlayStation 4, I have a feeling they'll make us rebuy all our DLC, home items, etc. for use on the PS4.

Same with the next Xbox, and I don't think Nintendo has the bad stuff to do it.

chillicampari
November 13th, 2009, 04:49 AM
I would think about installing Arch, I would talk about installing Arch to where my spouse would get sick of me talking about thinking of installing Arch, then on the day of the install I would probably install Debian or Fedora.

Frak
November 13th, 2009, 04:51 AM
Just remember, when you buy the codecs for one version of 'buntu, you have to rebuy it for the next version (just like how it is now) if you want true support.

This is how most companies are starting to work for computers and games/etc.

When Sony makes the PlayStation 4, I have a feeling they'll make us rebuy all our DLC, home items, etc. for use on the PS4.

Same with the next Xbox, and I don't think Nintendo has the bad stuff to do it.
mmmk

BrMBr
November 13th, 2009, 04:55 AM
Let's keep on topic, guys ;)

OpenSuSe or Arch.

Crunchy the Headcrab
November 13th, 2009, 05:18 AM
Fedora!

Arup
November 13th, 2009, 05:21 AM
Fedora or Sidux. Would have preferred PCLinuxOS but unfortunately, its only made for x32 architecture. Mepis would also be in my list of contenders.