So 38 people voted for Linux in the best OS poll, which kinda surprised me and made me curious who you guys are. Post here if you use Linux! Maybe what distro you use, how you got introduced to it, why you use Linux, etc.
I'll start...
I mostly use Ubuntu, though time to time I mess around with Fedora and OpenSUSE. Linux labs at school run Fedora Core 7 (ancient...).
I'm a 4th year Computer Science and Engineering undergrad at UCLA, and I got introduced to it through school. I took a lab where they introduce you to software developing using Linux, the CLI, and open source tools/technologies like python and gdb.
I remember when I first installed Ubuntu, I was really surprised it had a lot of programs I'd used before with Windows like Firefox, VLC, and Skype. As I kept using it and got as familiar with it as I was with XP, it just felt more natural and less convoluted to me.
As a side note, the lab's professor is pretty heavily involved in the open source community. If anyone's curious, he maintains tar, bison, wrote diff and some coreutils programs, designed tz data, and has submitted countless patches to projects like emacs, gcc, and the list goes on and on.
So what about you guys? I know there's like Soleron with his "pm me about Ubuntu" sig; who else?
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