Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: BranDonk Kong on September 18, 2013, 10:22:36 AM
Title: Linux users?
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 18, 2013, 10:22:36 AM
For my Software Engineering class my team is working on fixing bugs and feature requests in FileZilla, which turns out, is a pain in the ass to work with in Windows (or the compiling instructions are just outdated and missing several steps possibly), so I installed VMware and Ubuntu 12.04. I haven't set up the environment for FileZilla yet, but I've got to say I'm really digging this Ubuntu. I'm thinking about changing to a dual boot system (Windows 8 came with the laptop) and then probably reversing my setup and running VMware inside of Linux with Windows 7 or 8. Only things that don't exist that I need right now Visual Studio and Unity, and of course I'd miss out on all of those Humble EA games I just bought (unless some of them are available on Steam), but Eclipse, Unity, MAME, most emulators, etc are available. There is a bit of a learning curve, but I am studying computer science, so I think making the switch would be beneficial to me.
Title: Re: Linux users?
Post by: ShyGuy on September 19, 2013, 10:08:25 AM
Awesome! I use Linux Mint 15 with Cinnamon as my primary OS.
Title: Re: Linux users?
Post by: Plugabugz on September 20, 2013, 05:14:35 PM
My brother's laptop is on Ubuntu 1204 (the last non-PAE version) because it's very old.
Title: Re: Linux users?
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 22, 2013, 03:51:27 PM
I'm still incredibly new to this, but I'm pretty sure I already like it better than Windows. I installed Java, and instead of all of that setting up environment variables and set path bullshit, I just type "java" (or javac, etc) and it's there.
