Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

rokytnji · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 2288

All My Puppy Partitions have AntiX installed side by side. I like both equally.
I have no favorites.

sullysat · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 367 Location: San Antonio, TX

I have tried a variety of different distros since I started exploring Linux a few years ago, but I keep coming back to Puppy.

As a hobby, I restore old hardware and every machine I build has some sort of Puppy so far. The only exception to this rule is my main business machine, which is running Fedora. As much as I love my Puppies, I just can't get the experience I need out of it yet from a business perspective (I'm still working on it though!)

I'm going write some blog posts at some point, but in October of last year, I completely moved my business from M$ to Linux. I still have XP running in a virtual box for ONE application, but as soon as I can get that to run in Wine, I will wash my hands of it forever.

So, yes, Puppy is my favorite distro and the only one I continue to use no matter what.

Sully

stu90 · Posted: Fri 12 Mar 2010, 23:07 Post subject:

Yes puppy is my favorite distro, i use it (well choice of now 8 frugal puppy installs) as my main and only OS. I started with XP then got a new laptop with vista pre installed used that for a while them moved on to duel booting ubuntu, eventually wiped vista altogether as it was so bloated an resources heavy and distro hopped around the big distros, settled on xubuntu for a while then moved onto crunchbang linux and now here i am using puppy - i like light weight bloat free OS and puppy linux fits that category and me perfectly.

Billwho? · Posted: Sat 13 Mar 2010, 04:39 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

It has not been that way always.

SuperOS back in November 2009 was the best for me.
then I thought that Linux Mint 8 KDE CE was best.

Then it was Puppy Startdust that was best.

Now I think that Puppy 431 Standard is best if one give it the codecs and plugins and pets that makes it as good as or better than the other distros because

Puppy can do frugal install with persistence on a NTFS computer without destroying the integrity of the set up.

So now Puppy are the best except when I have to use programs I have not learn to use on puppy.

I always burn an iso using the windows program BurnCDcc because I am used to how one does it. I use UNetbootin in windows to burn an USB because I am used to how it is done.

Sooner or later I learn how to do that on puppy linux hopefully.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 13 Mar 2010, 06:51 Post subject:

I would say so, I always like the look of myah Os, Jeremiah Cheatham is the developer, nice person to email and myah is also built from scratch, but its not puppy, puppy is real community project thats fun to work with.
my list of favorite os is

1-Puppy
2-Myah Os
3-Linux Mint (even if he doesn't like Christian's, what a dolt) Smile

ttuuxxx

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2817 Location: Montenegro

My fave <3

It's my main OS on my home PCs, I just need to stop being lazy, backup my data and repartition my drive so I don't have so many partitions. Also get rid of that ntfs part. and then set it all linux and make one solid puppy install.

russoodle · Posted: Sat 13 Mar 2010, 09:33 Post subject:

Yep...gets the meaty bone from me..

TheAsterisk! · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 407

Oh, most definitely!

The only other Linux distributions I've tried- and my experience is admittedly limited here- have been flavors of Ubuntu and Debian, but aside from the prospective Lubuntu, they've all eventually lost my interest or have been incompatible with scores of my peripherals.

Puppy has only had issues with one scanner I have, but that piece of crap has never worked with anything but NT 4, anyway.

Really, I suppose I've not actually become a fan of Puppy Linux; it still annoys me regularly, but it's far less annoying that all the other operating systems and Linux distributions that I've tried. Maybe that will change someday, and I'll find a slicker system, but I'm not holding my breath. Puppy would be a tough act to follow.

tubeguy · Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 1329 Location: Park Ridge IL USA

Which Linux distribution do you use most frequently? Vote Puppy!

Bert · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 1107

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2817 Location: Montenegro

nitehawk · Posted: Sat 13 Mar 2010, 20:07 Post subject:

I would have to say that (my favorite distro) might be Debian. However,..I am always using Puppy,..(or coming back to it after messing up something). Laughing

Puppy is like a "swiss-army-knife" for me.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 13 Mar 2010, 20:50 Post subject:

Yes - for now.

Soon, however, I will be riding my 'hog. My CheesyRamHog Linux, that is. Muahahahahaaa....