Alright everyone, let’s get this party started. The title asks the question pretty well. What is the main use of your Linux install? Is it gaming, programming, just to dump windows etc…

Let’s have some fun everyone.

  • DoWotJohn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use it at home for my personal computer, primarily for gaming and on my workshop computer for looking stuff up. I also use it at work on my business computers. I also have a stack of Raspberry Pis that that provide Pi-Hole DNS services and file synchronization services.

    • Efwis@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I always thought about running a RP. But I just don’t have a scaleable need for one. It might have been a different case if as card manufactures had a 500gb card available. Then I would use it as a small plex server for my home where I could upload movies to it through ssh connection.

      • DoWotJohn@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I like them because they’re quiet, unobtrusive, and low power. I tuck them away in a corner and forget about them for the most part. I also keep a Pi Zero W hanging off of a solar panel in a shed away from my house. If an spaceship crashes into my house, I’ll still have my files out in the shed.

        • Efwis@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Awesome strategy. Guess that gives a new meaning to offsite storage

  • Nia [she/her]@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use it just for daily internet use, work (browser-based), and gaming, I’m daily driving Debian 12. I’m “tech savvy” but I don’t code or anything, Windows and MacOS could both do everything I need but they irritate me.

    • Efwis@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The irritation for me stated back with windows ME and the constant bsod’s I would randomly get every couple of days. Been on Linux since then, currently using endeavourOS as my daily driver and am very happy with it.

  • carzian@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m using it at work for development. At home I’m daily driving tumbleweed for gaming and whatnot. I have a few servers running proxmox with various VMs for self hosting

    • Efwis@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      As someone is wanting to set up their own self hosted server is it pretty simple to set up?

      • phanto@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So, my work had OpenStack, and I started reading about that, and I was like, “I want that! Just, VMs on tap, try out any server software, abstracted storage. Cool.”

        I spent, like, two years trying to get a simple three machine OpenStack working.

        Proxmox? Got 'em all working in less than an afternoon.

        That said, I’m still figuring out the quirks. But if you have a spare old box kicking around, it’s actually easier to set up Proxmox and then try the Turnkey containers for this and that then actually installing whole bare metal servers. Serious fun.

        • Efwis@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Guess I’ll have to try it. Been talking to the wife about making a tower a dedicated home server and maybe even opening it up to the net. But I won’t do that until it is properly locked down for wide open internet access. If at all.

  • the_q@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I use it as the operating system for my personal computer.

    But seriously I use it for graphic design, drawing comics, making music and gaming.

    • Efwis@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Nice. It seems that some translation in my question maybe an issue lol.

      I realize that a lot of people think this community is based solely on server side. But, our community is also for the random home user that isn’t necessarily Linux centric or is just starting with Linux in general s well as troubleshooting issues both on pc or servers.