I want chocolate flavour!
My netbook is currently running Pinguy OS, and for the moment I am not an Ubuntu user, but I will be when 12.04 comes out, both because I want a change and because I plan to use Ubuntu as a product for my future computer business which I am working on. Now that I can easily install MATE, I'll be able to dive into Ubuntu without going crazy. However, my friend has talked me into trying Debian, and so I am going to do that, and it may end up on my Netbook instead. I don't think I'll be able to sell that netbook model in my business anyway, as Windows 8 is not far off and will lock down that and most other modern computers
I also have my eye on Aurora and I may try Dreamlinux again one day.
I disagree. I gave Arch a try on a whim. I just downloaded the ISO, rebooted, and installed Arch on my whole system.. While it does take a bit more thinking than installing Ubuntu I don't think its very difficult. I think sometimes people try to make anything sound like it is harder than using Ubuntu. It only took me a couple hours to get it installed and XFCE up and running.
Of course I had some problems I had to look up and fix. But I've also had that with every single distro I've ever tried. The people in IRC #archlinux are a great help. Now I have been using Arch for about 7 months and wouldn't use another distro. I reccomend anybody that wants to get it a try to do so.
That's not a bad idea, however I see no reason to stop a perfectly good and valid discussion of Linux distributions just because of that goal. They are not mutually exclusive.
I very much doubt you will ever see that happen. Those programs, particularly the Apple ones, thrive because people are forced to use a certain platform in order to run them. They have a monopoly lock, they have exclusivity. And these big companies aren't going to give it up just to satisfy the needs of a small percentage of Desktop users. Windows has about 90% market share, and Apple's market share is growing. If you want to make money, you don't write software for the market with the least people in it....and I find it unlikely that it would be worth the while of these companies to develop alternate versions of the software for that same small market. That's unfortunately just how it is right now.I would love to have Photoshop, iPhoto, MS Word, iTunes, RapidWeaver, QuarkXPress, QuickBooks, various games, all running natively on Linux, along side such great software as K3B, Chrome, Thunderbird, VLC, HandBrake, and others. That day comes, sign me up! because I'll be all over that stuff.
Until then, o great and wise Linux community, kindly shut up.
Thanks.
I'm in the process of building a respin of 12.04 without Unity. Going to do LXDE and Gnome3. The respin I'm building is going to be for a corporate environment if I can get all the packages to fit on a CD. Don't have a name, logo, or anything for it yet but the experience has been fun building. I'd love to remove all of the ubuntu bits (unity, ubuntu1, custom firefox stuffs) but still give all the credit back to ubuntu when it's done.
Other than that, I use Arch, Fedora, Mint, Backtrack, and a handful of other smaller distros (DSL, Puppy) for the work I do. My favorite I keep going back to is still Ubuntu running Gnome DE.
I am running all out Fedora Core 16 these days with Gnome 3.2.
Its running wonderfully, fast and stable. Super easy to install as it detected my 4 drive raid array and set it up without any issues what so ever. They have came a long ways with stability the past few years and GNOME is doing better in 3.2 then it was when I tested the BETA. Still missing a few options such as a theme selector, but there is software in the repos already to work around this.
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