OK. So to ring in the new year lets do a little poll on who here is a Linux user be it casual, serious, or whatever shade of Grey in between.

There have been previous polls (last one I know of by me over a year ago), but please do not consider having posted in them the same as posting here, and do not post in them as a substitute for posting here. The goal is to find out who is a user right here, right now.

Feel free to post your distro, length of use, degree of use, why, and whatever you feel is relevant. However, try and keep it short. There are threads for disusing things like how you feel about GOG shunning Linux support, so if you wish to discus such issues please do, but don't get too deep here. This is simply a gauge of how many people are actually using the OS as we roll over into 2014.

And if you haven’t already voted for the Support Linux option in the wishlist, please do so now
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_linux_versions_of_games

And if you would be interested in a Linux forum zone, then we have a wishlist item for that as well.
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/alternative_os_forum_linux_mac

I use Linux exclusively on a Asus laptop from 2009 where Windows stopped working. I recently removed Windows from it.

*raises hand*
Ubuntu user (Ubuntu 13.04 on my desktop and laptop).
Started using Linux in 2002 with Redhat 7.2 then 7.3 then 8.0.
Moved on to Novell Suse, Fedora Core 4, a lot of other different Linux distributions (even local ones).
Then moved to Ubuntu full time.
:)

I am a Linux user, myself. I have been using the OS since I first picked up Knoppix (at the time I was experimenting with Linux and BSD) and a few other distros. I eventually came by Debian and subsequently Linux Mint (Now using LM15, I originally started using LM consistantly at 11 or 12 though not on that desktop) on another desktop built of some older parts I had lying around and Ubuntu 13.10 (I have been using Ubuntu since 9.04) on my laptop which is I use whenever away from my PC at a convention or what have you. I tend to flip back and forth between standard use and tinkering with settings and seeing what I can do with the OS. Lately I have been considering running Arch Linux (or possibly Ubuntu or Mint) as a secondary OS on my desktop.

That all being said I am rather fond of Linux personally, and have been quiet enjoying all the different flavours (I have dabbled with other distros but not even close as much as those previously mentioned), I have not really had many issues with any distro though with exception of an audio issue (had to tinker with sound settings) in Linux Mint 15. Though it really wasn't that big a deal and was very easily fixed. :) Actually my laptop is also an ASUS, though mine is from 2012, I got a great deal on it $300 because it was a referb i3 2.1ghz, 4GB of RAM (expandable to 8GB), Intel HD3000 on board graphics, and a 650GB HDD. :)

I dual-boot Linux Mint on a Windows machine and refurbish old broken computers into linux boxes as a small hobby. Been using Linux since 2007 ever since my brother told me about it.

I have been a linux user since 2009. During that time I still had a old pentium 4 with 256mb of ram as my main computer, and it was just way too slow for me with windows xp on it. Buying a new computer wasn't in my budget at the time, so I looked for alternative operating systems.

Eventually after trying out many linux distros, over a period of 3 years, I stuck with gentoo.

Gentoo ended up getting destroyed by me trying to install lord of the rings online. There had been a bug introduced into lotro, and evidently ruined any possibility of getting it running on the wine version found in the gentoo stable repository. So i pulled in the latest release of wine, which was 1.5.18 and it ended up updating udev and removing other packages. I knew when I had pressed enter that I destroyed my partition.

I rebooted to find a mess. None of the directory paths were working, none of the shell commands were registering. Python had been uninstalled. I didn't know how to fix it.

Now I'm on fedora 19, dual booting with windows 7. I like linux, but I also like games. It doesn't help I prefer gog to other stores.

You did emerge from all that wiser, hopefully. LOL.

We ( since we are a familly of 5) have two destops at home. One of them has a dual OS , Win 7 + Opensuse. My netbook works under Mint .

For desktop use, I have both Debian wheezy (KDE) and Lubuntu 12.04 LTS. I set them up dual boot with Windows 7 or 8, since I regularly need Windows clients for customer support. I also run Lubuntu on notebooks.

For headless units, Debian wheezy and one old OpenSuSE box. Don't much like OpenSuSE anymore; it's cumbersome.

I also do a lot of work with FreeBSD. But I only use it headless or in a virtual machine now.

I currently have Mint 16 KDE on my laptop. I like KDE but, so far, every Debian based distro with KDE hates my laptop. I think I'm going to install Ubuntu with Gnome 3 and install KDE and switch between the two when the mood hits.

I use Linux (currently Ubuntu with Cinnamon but I've used before almost everything :) at work and boot Windows only for gaming. I have also a HTPC with Linux.

Current count 11.

I'm sure there are a few more.

*Stands up* Yo!

I'm one. I recently wiped my trusty old Slack partition to try out some new OSes and see what they're like. I haven't settled on one yet.

Windows 4 life, Microsoft rul.....

Oops wrong thread. though deciding to go linux on the old desktop