What Linux distro do you use?

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I haven't ran Linux locally since I bought my Mac over a year ago, but I run Debian on my VPS because it's fairly low maintenance if that counts.
 

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I've been settled on Fedora for my laptop for several years now. CentOS goes on servers as my preference, although my employer likes Ubuntu in a lot of cases because it's got more up to date packages. I prefer the stability and mature code in CentOS but I suppose who pays the bills gets to have the final say.
 

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You can install linux on Phones? (or tablets?)
If it boots, chances are Linux can be installed on it in some form or another. Even the DS had a Linux kernel running on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSLinux
You can actually install Linux directly onto your phone and tablet using several different methods. There are even some VM applications on the Play Store that allows you to install Linux onto a VM on your phone.
It's crazy just what you can do with that little Kernel.
 
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Sorry for the bump guys, but I seem to be having a problem and there is no other place to ask it than in a group of Linux users. I have been researching the last few weeks how to fix this problem where whenever I close my laptop screen, it crashes Linux Mint. I have tried solutions found on many websites (including the once regarding ubuntu/LM) but none of them work. When in the middle of accessing files, I assume that it forcing it to shut down can/will result in a file system failure. After reinstalling LM18.1, this issue seemingly went away, until yesterday. I force shut it down about to reboot and look up how to fix it again, but it won't boot! I tried Upstart mode. Nope, CPU#Whatever soft-lockup! Frozen for 22 seconds. Only booting through recovery mode will it boot. I assume it has to do with my graphics drivers/hardware because it will boot in recovery mode where everything is processed in the CPU, not the GPU/video processor. Any help that you guys can provide would be appreciated, as this exact same problem caused me to reinstall LM after it stopped booting
 

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I go between a few when I'm not using windows. Most of the software I use for video production, programming and gaming/streaming don't run (easily) in mind. When I am using Linux it varies on the age as power of the computer. Typically I use Ubuntu for most things, Kali for penetration testing, and then lighter Ubuntu flavors. On the rare occasion I use a dinosaur computer that just refuses to run any Ubuntu flavor I just try a few super light weight distros until I find one that works well and has features I need
 
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Never mind about my earlier question. Since then, I have gone through hell and back but got NVidia working again. Long live google
 

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Haha yeah my ASUS laptop seems to hate Linux. I did run Android on it though, and it worked pretty well.
Well that's good I suppose. In the past few weeks I've had to reinstall Linux on my computer, and today I spent ~6 hours debugging my issues with NVidia graphics, come to find out it was an intel problem. Anyways, I'm glad something finally worked out on that laptop
 

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None at the moment, but my current favorite is Devuan (a mod of Debian with the goal of killing systemd)
+1 for the death of systemd.
I'm still running Xubuntu 14.04, but the time will be coming soon for me to migrate to a new distro. Considering Devuan, Void, and Gentoo currently. Devuan would probably be the most seemless transition, but there's something enticing about Gentoo's compile-everything rolling-release nature.
 

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I am running Debian testing myself, currently in freeze as it's about to become stable.

I was running Arch before, but then I got tired of it breaking python scripts for no reason besides "Python 3 is newer". I'll miss the AUR although it's kinda annoying as it requires manual intervention every now and then for PGP keys.
 

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I am running Ubuntu 16 LTS along with Windows 7 in dual boot on my notebook, grub detected both drives and created entries for each os (ubuntu running on a small ssd and windows running on regular hdd).
 

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