Do you like Linux? (If so. Why?)

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I use Kubuntu on a dual boot older desktop and it runs faster than XP and I run around with Puppy Linux on a usb stick helping people recover files and erase files if they are protected, it can run on anything I've encountered and it is pretty snappy.

Yeah, it better; the OS in total is only 50 megs.

My 4-5 year-old laptop is on Mint using Gnome. I want to try out Fedora some time.

I love Linux more than words can express.

My favorite distros are Gentoo and Arch, running Xmonad (or, if the haskell-X11 packages are acting wonky, AwesomWM until Xmonad has been updated). Both allow me to obsessively tweak every single thing to utter perfection.

Is it a recent version of Kubuntu? I would be really surprised to see anything with KDE4 running faster than XP.

Hell yes I love Linux!! Its safe, great for give old hardware new life & robust (only had two system crashes in 10 years)

Started using the os back in 2001 while doing my comp sci degree.
My uni dept ran a HP-UX before moving over to a Beowulf farm powered by Red Hat & Fedora.
Home use: use to have SUSE & openSUSE running on main pc before moving to Ubuntu.
At the mo am in the middle of distro hopping. Testing out Crunchbang on my laptop & Scientific Linux on my server.

When I get the time will start to play with Slackware and Arch Linux.

HP-UX is awesome!

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I use Linux because it's different and free. I am the type of person who sucks the life out of a computer and Linux will keep this 5-7 year old computer running until the parts get scarce. I love being able to customize it to my liking besides the color choices. I multiboot on a computer running Windows 7 so I can still play some older games.

Most likely an older KDE version...I know when my old computer was still running, it wouldn't update to the newer version of Ubuntu and was stuck at Jaunty (the update option wouldn't even be available).

I'm really tempted to give Kubuntu another try; especially since the switch between Ubuntu and Kubuntu is so easy/painless.

Switch is harder than you might think if you aren't careful. Here's what you do:

Open a terminal, "aptitude install kubuntu-desktop"
BEFORE accepting all the changes that aptitude will offer you, copy-paste them into a text file so you know what to remove later if you have to. You'll have to search-delete all the unneeded instances of '{a}' in package names.
Then you can accept installation of Kubuntu. Any other KDE-related packages you install later, be sure to add them in the text file as well. Otherwise when you try to remove KDE later you will spend half an hour or more resolving dependencies.

I like GNU/Linux because it's free, just works (or most distros nowadays do), versatile and doesn't - unlike Windows 7 - keep insisting my version is not genuine.

My distro of choice is OpenSuse with KDE, not the most ethical I know, but it's the best KDE based distro.

I quite like Solaris too, shame about the relative lack of hardware support though.

Out of curiosity, what do you think really distinguishes OpenSUSE's KDE implementation from that found in Debian, Fedora, etc? I'm using OpenSUSE right now, and while it seems overall like a polished, professional distro, nothing stands out as really exemplary to me as of yet. I am still learning my way around the SUSE way of doing things, but there are some frustrations, such as SUSE's continued use of Grub-legacy after even Debian has left it.

I guess I just like the ease of use compared with Debian, the fact that the distro is primarily meant to work with KDE means there's no clutter from stuff designed mainly for GNOME. I haven't used Fedora in a while so can't comment on that one. Overall, I just feel that it's a professionally designed product compared with many other KDE distros. Kubuntu in particular feels a lot less polished than its GNOME sibling.

I like linux because I like to own the things I buy.

If my install borks, I can reinstall it. Unlike the situation with leased products such as windows, I dont need permission.

My software copy does not belong to a specific computer, it belongs to me. If I want to change my motherboard and CPU, I can just move the hard disk. Or if it is that much different, reinstall. It is nobodies business but my own that I have a new MAC address.

If I dont like something I can get rid of it. For instance, I dont like the GDM login, so I swap to SLiM, or nothing at all.

I run linux because of Windows Vista

My laptop came with Vista preloaded, and it became so horrible that I made the jump to Ubuntu, something I'd been toying with for a while. After using linux for a while, the little things in windows just began to annoy me more and more, to the point these days where I find it horribly slow and frustratingly convoluted to navigate. I don't particularly mind 7, but that's probably because I haven't used it that much.

Still running Ubuntu, and loving it. My current laptop (lenovo s10-3t) has near-full hardware support (minus a few special buttons) as well, making it all the smoother

OK, I can see that, and I think I would agree that Debian/Ubuntu treat KDE somewhat as a second-class citizen. To me, Debian seems easier to use than SUSE, but that's likely just because I'm very accustomed to the Debian way of doing things. I still haven't quite learned my way around SUSE's package manager.