What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

eDio · 2009-06-13 19:19:12

Just interesting, how many photographers, programmers, musicians etc. are here.

As for me, Linux is still secondary OS, and everyday tasks I do under windows.
I am stuck to windows because of some software, which I need for education and my another hobby - music making.
But I am switching to linux slowly, at least Matlab under linux has some advantages comparing to windows version.

So, thats why this topic is interesting for me - I want to know, how many people has the same interests as I have and use linux.

Slammer64 · 2009-06-13 19:29:03

Manage my 6 legacy Gentoo servers in the various outbuildings my company has, as well as connect to the ancient Debian Woody box another company has and won't let me upgrade because they don't want to have to pay for the extra labor and downtime.

Peasantoid · 2009-06-13 19:55:22

Write ass-tons of code, do papers for school, and wander around the Internet.

eDio · 2009-06-13 20:00:33

2Peasantoid
Can you please explain me, what means "ass-tons"? I can't find anything similar in dictionaries

Mazur · 2009-06-13 20:03:54

mhm, what am I doing? Mainly testing, I love to test software and hardware. I am reinstalling ArchLinux like two times or three every week to test other options etc . Love to do it. But this week I am going to install arch for normal use, PHP and C++ programming.

madalu · 2009-06-13 20:06:01

I use it for research and writing and perhaps most importantly, endlessly fiddling with configuration files.

I often have to use other OS's but I find everything easier on linux (and especially Arch). Granted, I don't do professional quality media editing, but I've alway found the GIMP, audacity, blender, inkscape, etc. adequate for my needs. And I am, most adamantly, not a gamer. If I were, I imagine I'd find Arch limiting.

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DevoidOfWindows · 2009-06-13 22:05:26

eDio wrote:

Can you please explain me, what means "ass-tons"? I can't find anything similar in dictionaries

Emphatic slang term for "a lot" or "many."

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I use my Arch workstation for programming, trying out new applications, and games.

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Wishes · 2009-06-13 22:08:06

Most of the time programming for the university and writing documentation in latex. Everything else is done with windows (which is nearly only playing games and watching tv).

iza · 2009-06-13 22:11:27

Shamefully, I still use Windows Xp for pretty much everything -- I've just been booting into Arch on occasion to fiddle around with linux. But I do plan on making the slow and painful transition to Arch as my primary OS; it's tough after a lifetime of using Windows, and my current Xp install is so absurdly customized that it bears very little resemblance to the original thing, minus the underlying kernel and drivers; (so hard to leave my precious setup and begin another).

But I WILL eventually be using it for programming, web design, music production, research, writing documents/papers/homework, media centre, and of course wasting time on the internetz.

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eDio · 2009-06-13 22:14:09

DevoidOfWindows wrote:

Emphatic slang term for "a lot" or "many."

Thanks. It was nearly obvius for me, but I had some doubts.

tcoffeep · 2009-06-13 22:16:42

I study, I tinker, I play games and listen to music.

eDio · 2009-06-13 22:26:11

2iza
Hmmm... Your situation is nearly the same as mine. Under windows I use blackbox... and try to imitate linux desktop. BB4win causes crashes, incompabilities with some software and it drives me insane. What is more, I dont see my future with upcoming Win7, because every next release of this OS becomes more and more veiled for user (now I'm on WinXP), so I really want to svitch to OS, which I can understand and handle completely.

MoonSwan · 2009-06-13 22:57:16

I play Go a lot or just watch others play; I write, listen to music streams, surf and chat a bit.

Themaister · 2009-06-13 23:02:38

Go? Interesting What rank/skill level?

markisthejob · 2009-06-14 01:17:39

Mostly multimedia - movies,music, dvd burning etc.I spend a stupid amount of time browsing the net

Raisuli · 2009-06-14 01:23:10

Everything, except playing World of Warcraft and Left 4 Dead.

FallenWizard · 2009-06-14 01:55:53

Playing games with snes9x-gtk and gens (Works amazingly well on xf86-video-ati!), Chatting, Browsing

Ghost1227 · 2009-06-14 02:03:46

Mostly development/packaging, a little web browsing.

generic_ · 2009-06-14 03:56:42

Im still in highschool so teaching myself what ever I feel like learning which mostly equates to ebooks on coding,networking,math. Messing with Linux, experimenting with different stuff like compiling my own kernel I'm big on that, and sniffing my own packets to crack my own WEP key was fun. And watching movies and music of course. Just basically having fun.

DevoidOfWindows · 2009-06-14 04:32:39

I forget to add making (not-so-great) music to my list: http://wintervenom.brandonw.net/Scott%20Garrett/Music/
And, of course, (maybe slightly better) artwork: http://wintervenom.brandonw.net/Scott%20Garrett/Images/

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lifeafter2am · 2009-06-14 04:38:38

Administer other servers (a mix of Gentoo, Debian, and BSD), write code, pen test, music, movies, net, ..... just about everything you can think of. Heck, I even perform all my statisical analysis for my graduate work thanks to SPSS having a native Linux version. I have been using Linux as my main OS since 1999, and stopped dual booting entirely since 2002 when I found Gentoo ... so yeah, everything.

HashBox · 2009-06-14 04:43:51

For me? Well right now my console consists of screen, tail for my server logs, mutt for email, vim for development, and weechat for IRC.
So basically all of the above, plus storage (since it has the biggest drive of my machines), playing music/movies, occasionally surfing the net (Although I use my XP machine nearly exclusively for that).

I suppose development would be the key thing.

The only reason I really hold on to XP is for Carmageddon. Because that game never gets old and it runs like crap under Wine.

drelyn86 · 2009-06-14 05:21:38

All the basics. I still have my XP partition for nearly all of my commercial games, but that rarely ever gets booted into. When I say "rarely" I mean right now my uptime is 7 days and before that it was 15 days.

Open-source games give me a quick fix when I need to shoot some people. Nexuiz, Warsow, Sauerbraten, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and True Combat: Elite. I run Counter-Strike: Source and Garry's Mod through Wine sometimes.

Remote into my work connection via Citrix ICA.

I've had Jack, Ardour, and Hydrogen installed for a long time now, but I can't seem to ever find the time to create some music.

I'm learning Java with Netbeans.

Manage finances with GNUCash.

Talk to corporate, like a boss.

Make DVD backups.

tlaloc · 2009-06-14 06:52:22

I use it mainly to read sixteenth-century Spanish documents from the Archive of the Indies in Seville - honestly, no kidding. Somehow, that seems to be what I am programmed for.

Allan · 2009-06-14 07:19:37

Work, Arch and play... I have not had another OS for over a year now.

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