<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b>Desktop distribution:</b> 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.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b>Desktop manager:</b> 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.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b>Browser:</b> Chrome 80%, Chromium 10%, Firefox 10% (mostly due to handy Amazon EC2 and S3 plugins). My kids, interestingly, seem to prefer Firefox.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ed</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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So...<br>
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What is your preferred desktop distribution?<br>
What is your preferred desktop/window manager?<br>
What is preferred browser?<br>
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For me:<br>
Preferred desktop distro: OpenSUSE<br>
Preferred desktop/window manager: XFCE. I was a Gnome user up until 3.x.<br>
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<br>
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Oh, and I don't want to start an argument - just a discussion! There are no wrong answers, just different answers.<br>
--<br>
Allen Beddingfield<br>
Systems Engineer<br>
The University of Alabama<br>
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