frostclaw20Which distro are you neckbeards using?
coderchris@frostclaw20 Currently Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 on the "work" laptop. I also have Arch + i3 on my school/backup laptop, Fedora 25 + Gnome on the battlestation, Arch + Gnome on the devstation, Ubuntu Server 16.04.2 with LAMP stack and HUGE server with CentOS 7.3 with KVM for DHCP, DNS, LEMP, LAMP, and test benches.
@coderchris damn so much fragmentation? How do you keep up with updates?
@frostclaw20 I read a lot lol.
In all seriousness I mostly stick to Fedora and Ubuntu for work. I have Linux Administration for Beginners the RHCSA/RHCE books for reference and review. Most of the time I'm using Arch for school or to do something I didn't want to jeopardize the work computer for.
It helps having multiple physical boxes, too. I have a custom build + two laptops and a re-purposed HP ProDesk. Dell T Servers for the big stuff.
@coderchris Yeah it sounds like a very good setup. I just have a custom build desktop and a Chomebook that I use for all my work. I like the Chromebook for simple stuff but I would like to get Linux running on it. My desktop runs Manjaro, it's stable enough form me.
SeaSharp@frostclaw20 Fedora 24, started on 21, 3 years strong with no reinstall.
GDM + HLWM + GnomePie + Low Latency Kernel for Audio work
I also got PCI Passthrough working with it not too long ago. Promptly nuked my Win7 Dual Boot.
@seasharp ohhg that sounds nice? How did you get the pass through to work? I wanna use it with windows 7 on a vm
@frostclaw20 Lil bit of education from Wendell @ Level1Techs and a LOT of Google-Fu.
Essentially:
Figure out your PCI groups
Ensure your MoBo has Vt-d enabled (and any other relevant virt tech, check your chip maker)
Find a good wrapper script online (to detach card after boot and vfio attach before VM boot) and add your PCI group specs
Install your OS via virt-manager or virsh
Power off and add the passthrough devices
Run the wrapper, power up and watch Dmesg like a hawk.
pigmanrocker@pigmanrocker same here, God bless
@frostclaw20 DragonFly BSD, of course!
@architect why even use bsd?
@architect @frostclaw20 obligatory kick-back-with-popcorn
@frostclaw20 Because:
• better native filesystems
• better debugging utilities (dtrace/vkernels)
• better process isolation
• binary and source repos
• ports collection
• pf
Just to name a few awesome features, why would I use Linux when I can have all this awesome stuff? :D
@architect How many apps do you have installed on BSD?
@frostclaw20 I don't have the faintest idea offhand, but it's no less than I had installed on Linux, nearly every important program is available on both platforms
@architect I didn't know that. Do bsd people just take em from git and compile them for bsd?
@frostclaw20 depends on the program, but it's either a native BSD application or gets ported and joins either the binary repos or the ports collection. What doesn't exist there may just need someone to be interested enough in using it to make sure they can get it working on BSD and file a report with whichever project to get it included. Pretty similar to how things end up on Linux
Ghosty@frostclaw20 Arch Linux
@Ghosty Good, same here
Ben 
@frostclaw20 Arch Linux on PC/Laptop, Debian on my Servers.