[DiogenesLamp]

I've used linux since it was just a kernal on floppy disks. Slackware is the distro that I used back then. It's my main go-to on all of my computers except that one I keep on Windoze 7 that I have to have to support idjits that can't handle linux.

This post, and most all of my posts on FR are posted from a linux box.

What version of Linux are you currently using? What sort of web browser does it use?

[JRandomFreeper]

This boxen uses Mint linux distro, and it will run any browser I want. I'm using a Mozilla variant of some kind for a web browser.

I don't think you can get rid of the liberals and get a complete system. I'm happy just not having to pay them.

/johnny

[Doug Loss]

What kind of web browser does Linux use? FireFox comes with pretty much every distro, and Google Chrome is available for free download. If you want a non-proprietary version of Chrome, there’s Chromium available on most software repositories. I’m currently using Pale Moon, an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Android and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use.

[zeugma]

You have a huge choice of browsersand just about any other software you want. There are some exception Visio being one of the major ones. But for everyday softeare, there are plenty of alternatives. I use Firefox, but occasionally use konqueror, or Opera for web browsing. For documents, you can use libreoffice or Koffice. For vids, vlc is hard to beat as it will play just about anything.

You can rip CDs with several program. I normally use grip for that, and k3b for ripping vids. Audacity makes it easy to work with audio files.

If you’d like to run your own webserver, there is Apache, and many other options.

The amount of software available is astounding, when you consider that almost all of it is free, and is available in seconds via a package manager if you stick with a major distribution like Fedora, or an Ubuntu variant like Mint.