[ale] Survey - preferred Linux distro, desktop, and browser.

[Jay Lozier]

Interesting that Gentoo is also a local slang term for a prostitute.
Marketing people often find they may accidentally use a term that is an
insult or derogatory in another country. Sometimes dialect differences
can lead to some humorous situations.

Also, our Linux
Me
openSUSE, occasionally Linux Mint 
Cinnamon/Mate/XCFE - I migrate between them.
Chrome, Opera, Firefox - Opera has the better built download manager.

Swambo,
Linux Mint
Cinnamon
Chrome, Firefox

Jay

On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 14:46 -0400, Edward Holcroft wrote: 
> Desktop distribution: At the office - Debian Wheezy stable 64 bit
> (push my work machine to the limit and Unity a.) just kept breaking
> and b.) made my work harder to do, so switched in frustration, and c.)
> was looking for an excuse to have a dedicated Debian box anyway). At
> home: Ubuntu latest 64 bit. Have also used over the years, used
> Mandrake/Mandriva and Fedora for a fair spell, went through a Gentoo
> phase - great fun, but way too hard for me! As an ex-South African,
> let me tell y'all something you may not have known about the word
> gentoo: A gentoo in Cape Malay slang is a hooker/prostitute, named
> after the ship named Gentoo in which they arrived at the Cape of Good
> Hope.
> Desktop manager: At office: Gnome 3.4. At Home: Unity latest, for
> better or for worse! Not crazy about it, but not pissed off enough to
> switch to Mint. Used to be a big fan of KDE 3 through 3.5 on Mandrake,
> liked the look of what they did with KDE4 but never quite got my head
> around it, so switched to Gnome when I tried Ubuntu back in the Hoary
> Hedgehog days, just for the fun of it and never left the building.
> Also use xfce and lxde on some low-spec boxes. Tried KDE again about 2
> years ago, still not for me.
> Browser: Chrome 80%, Chromium 10%, Firefox 10% (mostly due to handy
> Amazon EC2 and S3 plugins). My kids, interestingly, seem to prefer
> Firefox.
> 
> 
> ed
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>
> wrote:
>         We have quite a bit of discussion back and forth about various
>         desktops, browsers, and distros, but I don't think we have
>         done a survey of everyone's favorites.
>         
>         So...
>         
>         What is your preferred desktop distribution?
>         What is your preferred desktop/window manager?
>         What is preferred browser?
>         
>         For me:
>         Preferred desktop distro:  OpenSUSE
>         Preferred desktop/window manager:  XFCE.  I was a Gnome user
>         up until 3.x.
>         Preferred browser:  Firefox.  Now that Chrome is the only way
>         to get updated Flash player on Linux, I have it installed, and
>         I'm sure I will be forced to use it for certain things - at
>         least until the remains of Flash are finally wiped from the
>         earth :D
>         
>         Oh, and I don't want to start an argument - just a
>         discussion!  There are no wrong answers, just different
>         answers.
>         --
>         Allen Beddingfield
>         Systems Engineer
>         The University of Alabama
>         
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