What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

[RandomCharacter]

Cool question.

I run Siduction Linux amd64. I use the LXDE/Openbox desktop with a few custom key combinations. I usually run tmux to manage my terminal sessions. systemd 204-3. iceweasel. Libre Office. All free software except for a couple of firmware modules for wired and wireless networking.

My system is installed on a btrfs RAID-0 1.9 TB on two SATA-III drives, with about 1 TB unformatted free space remaining. Knock on wood, this has been stable and reliable since Oct, 2012. Fast, too. I also have an external 2 TB USB 3 drive for backups.

My box is an i5-2500k with 8 GB DDR-3.

Tim

[johnraff]

Crunchbang Statler (oldstable)
still running beautifully.

[Potatohead]

I use an old desktop, a nice laptop (i5 Thinkpad, 8GB RAM) and a NetBook (gma500 p.o.s., fuck you Intel !). I'm an avid distro hopper, but BBQ (Open Box or i3wm), #! (stable, OB), Arch (OB or i3wm) and LinuxMint (xfce) are constants. The latter for showing others how nice and easy Linux can be. The beauty of tiling window managers, and doing all in the terminal, does not appeal to most newcomers :)

At work I am forced some braindead, virus infested OS. I always was to lazy to bring my own laptop plus I need some time to hack around the braindead OS only "solutions" that they have implemented.

[iMBeCil]

Dell XPS with crunchbang waldorf (pekwm), at the moment.

Now in the process of switching to customized bloat32 ... at the moment, trying to install it sideways in LVM, to test whether it will work or not ... eventually, hoping to ditch #! and use my customized bloat32 (as free time allows).

[Eren]

My PC has Gentoo unstable with Awesome and mostly cli apps like ncmpcpp, weechat, tmux, rtorrent, mc etc. My sister's old laptop has BBQ Dominator. Using it with what it has. But my all time BBQ fav is Cameltoe.

[Potatohead]

@ Eren - how is Gentoo unstable in terms of stability? Say, compared to Debian Sid (LinuxBBQ !!) or to Arch? Thanks.

[bones]

But my all time BBQ fav is Cameltoe.

Me too. :)

[machinebacon]

^ Mine too ;) I mean, it is.

[slartie]

Sauce on the small lappy for all the normal stuff - heavily customized at this point. Debian Sid on the big'un.

Playing around with *BSD to see if that's worth dipping into these days.

[bones]

Playing around with *BSD to see if that's worth dipping into these days.

Same here. I have GhostBSD 3.5 RC1 LXDE on the T61, learning to grok the BSD thing. Not to shabby, really.

[Eren]

@ Eren - how is Gentoo unstable in terms of stability? Say, compared to Debian Sid (LinuxBBQ !!) or to Arch? Thanks.

It never failed me for now. But you know, Gentoo is way different than binary distros like Debian (LinuxBBQ) and Arch. There're many things that affect stability in Gentoo. For example, useflag usage, your make.conf etc etc. If you use "minimal" flag with xorg, then you can't say it's "working well" hahah.

[machinebacon]

@Potatohead: how do you define the word "stability"?
Do you mean the fluctuation of package versions (upgrade cycle) or something else?

[DebianJoe]

I have looked at this thread a few times and thought "I don't have a 'primary' system." What I end up doing is sharing git repos for projects between a few different setups, and having identical configs for certain programs that are also synced together. I guess that a list is in order:

Core 2 Toshiba: Elektra + dwm, testing done on Tiny/Vanilla Sid ~Experimental, bbq Sauce
AMD A8 ASUS: killx/Manjaro rolled into Arch (fun project, I like the results)/testbed for all new spins.
t43: Debian Sid vanilla + cwm on one HDD, other one running BBQBeer.

The programs that I keep synced via dotfiles are primarily vim, emacs, nano, gitupper, zsh, and whatever project I'm currently working on. The idea is that regardless of what I'm logged into, they all behave similarly...down to rebinding the keys in cwm and dwm to mimic each other.

So, for "daily usage" it really doesn't matter what I'm running.

[Potatohead]

@Machinebacon - I mean serious trouble after an update, like monitors not working, system not booting and so on.

I don't mean instability in terms of Debian Unstable - that is the instability we like as

rolling roasters

, right? Change is nice, small problems are OK (sound not working, programs crashing) but big problems are not so nice.... BTW, the only distro that gave me problems was Ubuntu. Debian Sid and Arch never let me down, ( small problems yes, but never grave things).

[Potatohead]

@DebianJoe - sharing dotfiles across distros, does that work?

[wuxmedia]

I guess it depends on the dotfile, but a *.conf file doesn't change -that- much. On different versions - yeah, but they get depreciated first then removed, no?

[DebianJoe]

@DebianJoe - sharing dotfiles across distros, does that work?

If you're asking "does your .vimrc and .emacs/emacs/d work across distros?" Yes. Obviously, .cwmrc would be pointless in dwm, so I simply keep them all in one big repo, and pull out the ones I need after an install, or if I make major changes to one. Simply removing a single item from a synced directory doesn't mean that git will know that you did it unless you let it know. It only keeps up with what you let it know about.

The first thing that I do when swapping stations is run my little "gitupper" script, which syncs the repos that are in use on THAT system to the main. If a .dotfile is updated, I get verbose output from it, and then will determine if it makes sense to migrate the updated into my home directory.

[Potatohead]

@Joe, thanks, very nice solution. Care to share the script?

[DebianJoe]

https://github.com/DebianJoe/gitupper

[Potatohead]

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