Thread: Which Linux distributions do you use?
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Re: Which Linux distributions do you use?
Well, being a Fedora contributor, Fedora is my Linux distro of choice. But I'm writing this on a Windows box! Why you ask? FRC is the reason I have to use Windows. Mainly the DS, but the NI Vision Assistant is nice too. And Inventor. And whatever else there is that I'm not thinking of.

However, like has already been said in this thread - we're here to inspire the scientists of tomorrow. That inspiration can't happen without exposing them to what they're using in the real world, and in reality - that's going to be Linux. That's all that I use at work except for productivity apps (Outlook, etc - and that's because of where I work requires it, ew!), and it's just going to be going more and more that way.

I hope that with the RFP for the 2015 control system, Linux support was taken into account. Not holding my breath, though.