Maximum PC

What OS do you run?
Kubuntu Edgy Eft

Why do you run it?
Kubuntu is easy to use, configurable, and awesome all around.

When did you start using it?
Wednesday Edgy, but I've been using Linux since 2003.

App Questions:
Which browser?
Firefox

Email client?
Kmail. I think that Thunderbird is nicer, but Kmail is integrated with Kontact.

Audio and video players?
Audio: amaroK Video: Kaffeine or Mplayer

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
editor: nano or vim
office: OpenOffice.org

<b>What OS do you run? </b>
Ubuntu 6.10 / Windoze for a few games

<b>Why do you run it? </b>
I like the freedom and the price. My old azz computer run great with out the continued slow down that I get with MS products.

<b>When did you start using it? </b>
About 6 months ago when I heard about Dapper

App Questions:
<b>Which browser? </b>
Opera on all. Been using is since ver. 5.xx

<b>Email client? </b>
Evolution, simple and easy. I don't need anthing fancy

<b>Audio and video players? </b>
totem, xine, VLC

<b>Office progs (editors, etc.)?</b>
Open Office. Works with all my old MS Office stuff...

What OS do you run?
Kubuntu Edgy 32bit

Why do you run it?
I wanted something a little more pre-configured and ease of use then straight Debian. In 2005 i decided XP would be my last microsoft OS and when vista came out i decided to make it happen

When did you start using it?
Two weeks ago.

Which browser?
Firefox

Email client?
Gmail only.

Audio and video players?
Audio: xmms to play my FLAC's Video: VLC for DVD's and MPlayer for XVID

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Open Office of course!

Open Office, Mplayer, VLC Media Player, Firefox and other programs are all things i used in windows for a long time prior to finally switching to linux. If you plan on switching run multiplatform open source programs through windows first.

General Questions:
What OS do you run? I Run Ubunto Feisty with Beryl

Why do you run it? Vista was the last straw for me. Microsoft did the impossible, they actually made Windows Millenium look good.

When did you start using it? On and off for about a year, full time about 2 months now

App Questions:
Which browser? Firefox

Email client? Gmail and other web mail

Audio and video players? Totem, mplayer

Office progs (editors, etc.)? Open Office, I can see why Microsoft is scared!

General Questions:
What OS do you run? openSUSE 10.2

Why do you run it? It's the only OS I can fix as well as I can break.

When did you start using it? Day of release! Been using SuSE since 7.2 (2001?)

App Questions:
Which browser? Firefox 2

Email client? gmail! Email clients are so off-line.

Audio and video players? Amarok, Banshee, Listen and VLC

Office progs (editors, etc.)? OOo for boring office work, Quanta for old-school webdev, Aptana for Ruby/Rails, BungeeConnect for the really tight stuff, GIMP for the pretty stuff, and rdesktop when it just doesn't work.

What OS do you run?
Ubuntu Fiesty

Why do you run it?
For the learning experience

When did you start using it?
2 days ago (well, tried Libranet about 2 years ago... I really have some issues with it)

App Questions:
Firefox browser... on all my puters
All the ones that come with Ubuntu

Email client?
mostly gmail but also checking out Evolution

Audio and video players?
Audio:Rhythmbox
Video:Default Movie Player. Haven't actually checked it out yet.
My printer works great. Trying my camera tonight.

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Oo

GUI
Gnome?

I am NOT in the computer business and this was a big leap for me! Ubuntu installed like 'butta' but boy, my inexperience shows at times! Anyone care to let me know how to set my numlock to be on by default?

General Questions:
What OS do you run?

ubuntu

Why do you run it?

learning and fun

When did you start using it?

breezy badger

App Questions:
Which browser?

Firefox

Email client?

N/A - gmail

Audio and video players?

Kaffine
VLC

Office progs (editors, etc.)?

open office

General Questions:
What OS do you run?
XP on my gaming desktop
OSX on my Macbook for editing/general use (music, email, etc)
XP on my macbook for gaming : )
Why do you run it?
XP for gaming
OSX for general use/editing
When did you start using it?
XP years ago.. 5, 6 maybe?
OSX like a month
App Questions:
Which browser?
IE 6
Safari
Email client?
Mozilla Thunderbird
Audio and video players?
Itunes for music
Windows media player
VLC
Office progs (editors, etc.)?
MS Office
Final Cut Pro
Utorrent
Photoshop
Illustrator
Sony Vegas

General Questions:

I have built my own Linux system using a mixture of online Books:- DIY-Linux.org (to build the OS system), linuxfromscratch.org (for bootscripts and Udev), CLFS (for the user space kernel headers) and BLFS (to configure and build all the apps and desktop ...).


In my case, I love control. And I have alot of time on my hands. You do end up with a faster system, since you are building a Non-modular kernel. Plus the system software is (or can be) optimized only for the PC you build on (unless you are cross compiling).

And of course, you learn how to configure everything by hand. No automated scripts or programs. True control...


I first used Linux 8 years ago.


I use Firefox


I use Evolution and/or Kmail



Xine (movie-player can use Xinelib by the way), xmms (mp3)


OpenOffice-2.2, Tellico (Collection manager DB), Planner (Project Management), Scribus-1.2.5.1 (Publishing tool) and Vim/Gedit/Kate for text/script editing.

What OS do you run?
Slackware 12.0

Why do you run it?
Linux: Because I'm a computer Nerd/Geek
Slackware: Because I'm very comfortable w/ Linux and I like the fact that Slackware doesn't hold your hand.

When did you start using it?
Roughly 2002-2003

App Questions:
Which browser?
Firefox

Email client?
Evolution

Audio and video players?
Audio - Amarok
Video - No Preference

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Office Suite: OpenOffice.org
Text Editor: Vi all the way

GUI
While I prefer the CLI, KDE or GNOME are both fine. Fluxbox is my "lightweight" of choice.

What OS do you run?
OpenSuSE at work, Kubuntu on personal laptop, Gentoo as a DHCP/BIND server and for random kernel experimentation.

Why do you run it?
Because it's my job, because it's fun.

When did you start using it?
Caldera linux back in...uh...1994 I think?

App Questions:
Which browser?
Firefox

Email client?
T-bird

Audio and video players?
Audio - meh
Video - meh

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Open Office
Vi (well, ViM these days)

GUI
Usually KDE. Occasionally I'll install the latest version of Gnome to see what's changed.

What OS do you run?
Debian Lenny/Sid (cause I like the cutting edge)
Debian Etch (for my web/FTP server)
Solaris 10 (training for my SCSA certification)
Windows XP (cause my girlfriend can't live with out the Sims 2)

When did you start using it?
I started using Linux in 2005 cause I couldn't find a working free DVD ripping app for XP. That, and I realized I wanted to pursue a career in Network Administration. I knew Windows had so many faults and I was curious about this "Ubuntu" thing the local computer shop was giving away. Free software? Gotta be too good to be true. I installed Ubuntu 5.10, but I gave up quickly cause Ubuntu didn't like my AOL dial up. Once I was on broadband, I played wit Knoppix, then Ubuntu 6.10, then Debian, Fedora, SuSE, CentOS, Slackware, Solaris 10, FreeBSD.... I use Debian for most everything and it's the only distro I can recommend for every purpose. Desktop? Debian. Servers? Debian, Network appliances? Debian. New to Linux? Debian is good, but Ubuntu is easier to set up.

App Questions:

Which browser?
Iceweasel or Firefox (they're the same thing really)

Email client?
Web-based (Gmail)

Audio and video players?
For Linux, Xine or Mplayer plays my movies, while Rythmbox handles my music.
For Windows, I use VLC for movies, and Windows Media Player 10 for music (I can't stand WMP 11. can't get my music sorted the way I want. Plus, my Athlon64 3500+ is showing it's age.)

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Open Office on the rare occasions I do any office type work. Nano for doing HTML and text editing.

GUI?
After playing around with several different DEs, I've found I prefer Gnome. I remember really liking KDE when I used Knoppix, but I reacently tried it again and didn't like it. I'll try again when KDE 4 goes stable. If I didn't do so web browsing, I'd just Ctrl+Alt+F1 and have a ball.

General Questions:
What OS do you run? Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition

Why do you run it? It's a great Linux server client for web / ftp and file hosting.

When did you start using it? A few weeks ago, although I have ran Linux servers for a while now.

App Questions:
Which browser? None, it's all command line, no GUI.

Email client? None, it's all command line, no GUI.

Audio and video players? None, it's all command line, no GUI.

Office progs (editors, etc.)? PICO text editor.

General Questions:
What OS do you run? Slackware 12.0

Why do you run it? Because it single handedly the greatest simpliest version of linux ever made and is the god father to all other linuxes.

When did you start using it? When slackware 3 floppy images were postes to usenet

App Questions:
Which browser? Opera / FF Opera is just faster the even a custom compiled slimmed down FF. But FF for some sites that still dont like opera or if I want to use a site with a FF ext like no script.

Email client? Pine

Audio and video players? Xmms , Xine , mplayer

Office progs (editors, etc.)? Pico, MS Office via wine, gimp with the gimpshop addon.

What OS do you run?
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

Why do you run it?
I run Linux because I botched my Windows partition when I tried to do a duel boot of linux and windows. When I reformated and tried to reinstall WInXP, it kept on saying my Product key won't work, so **** it, I am runing Linux

Ubuntu: ease of use, simple to install, works almost 3x faster than when i had windows
Linux: Not as many programs, but massive customization >_> <3 u Linux

When did you start using it?
Linux: Since Dec. of 2007

App Questions:
Which browser?
FIREFOX! FIREFOX! FIREFOX! FIREFOX!

Email client?
none-yahoo

Audio and video players?
Audio - Ubuntu default and audicity
Video - Ubuntu default and VLC

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
OO, AbiWord

GUI
Gnome 2.0... I think





I am a Newbie to Linux, but so far I have loved it, other than the annoyance of not having window's versitility.. My learning curve to Linux hasn't been that much and I got acquainted to it in about a week >_>

General Questions:
What OS do you run?
openSUSE 11.1
WinXP Pro

Why do you run it?
I use openSUSE for most every thing but use WinXP for programs those programs that aren't offered for Linux.

When did you start using it?
I've been dual booting WinXP and SuSE since version 9.0 (2003)

App Questions:
Which browser?
Seamonkey

Email client?
Seamonkey

Audio and video players?
XMMS, Xine, Mplayer, VLC

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Open Office, Kate, Seamonkey (webpage)

General Questions:
What OS do you run?

XP and Ubuntu

Why do you run it?

I have enough junk to build a headless server room but the processors are all sub-par. So, I run XP to play games on the AMD Semperon 3400 +, and Ubuntu on the 3100 +, and the other two are currently awaiting their orders.

I also have an old IBM PS/WHO? micro channel arcitchecture P.C. which I simply keep for reasons to perverse to adequately explain in writing.

When did you start using it?

2003 for windows xp. 2006 for Ubunutu

App Questions:
Which browser?

Firefox and IE8. Nothing else is really all that secure, IMO.

Email client?

Outlook 2007 and Thunderbird

Audio and video players?

too numerous to mention but right now, it's banshee on Ubuntu and Winamp on XP


Office progs (editors, etc.)?

Openoffice 2.4 on Ubuntu vs. Ultimate Office 2007 on XP. (But it's not like I care.)
What I really need is an excellent IDE for C ++, python, perl and html. I will learn to be a unix hippie one day even if it kills me.

tayl

General Questions:
What OS do you run?
Linux Mint 6

Why do you run it?
Free, elegant, fast and well supported

When did you start using it?
Mint: a few moths ago. Linux: since 2005

App Questions:
Which browser?
Opera

Email client?
Gmail

Audio and video players?
VLC

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Open Office, nano

General Questions:
What OS do you run?
Win XP Win 7
Lubuntu but i do hop to see what else is available. i am more comfortable on the .deb side of things.

Why do you run it?
winxp and win7- because as much as i hate microsoft they are just easier to use and i do tend to use mostly freeware or open source even on windows.
lubuntu- my netbook which is from the first generation atom processor because its hard to run winxp on it with a virus program at the same time so i figured id save myself the trouble plus i do like to just resetup systems.

When did you start using it? I can remember windows 3.1 but it wasnt my computer it was my father's and i was like approx. 5 years old.
Lubuntu and linux in general: i can remember using ubuntu 6.06 and thinking this aint bad but it needs some focus.

App Questions:
Which browser? Firefox occasionally chrome.

Email client?
I use aol for most of my mail through a browser.

Audio and video players?
VLC- simply the best.

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
open office, osmo, basically a calendar like program occasionally journal like programs.

What OS do you run?
Slackware 13.37 on several different machines from an old P4 to a homebrew machine

Why do you run it?
Slackware just makes sense

When did you start using it?
Been a Slackware user since something like Slackware 8

App Questions:
Which browser?
Firefox 4 with a little Chrome from time to time

Email client?
Thunderbird

Audio and video players?
Mostly Mplayer/SMplayer for video and Amarok for audio

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Almost too many to mention. LibreOffice for heavy duty office work and geany for lightweight text and programming. Rox, worker and mc are the main file managers I use.