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The State of Desktop Linux: Interviews with Different Users About Their Linux Setups Steven Ovadia My Linux Rig www.mylinuxrig.com @steven_ovadia *** Associate Professor/Web Services Librarian LaGuardia Community College About My Linux

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The State of Desktop Linux: Interviews with Different Users About Their Linux Setups

Steven Ovadia My Linux Rig www.mylinuxrig.com @steven_ovadia *** Associate Professor/Web Services Librarian LaGuardia Community College

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About My Linux Rig (the site…)

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http://usesthis.com

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The Setup’s Questions

Who are you, and what do you do?
What hardware do you use?
And what software?
What would be your dream setup?

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The Questions (first iteration)

Who are you, and what do you do?
What distribution do you run on your main

desktop/laptop?

What software do you depend upon with this

distribution?

What kind of hardware do you run it on?
What is your ideal Linux setup?
Will you share a screenshot of your desktop?

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The Questions (current)

Who are you, and what do you do?
Why do you use Linux?
What distribution do you run on your main

desktop/laptop?

What desktop environment do you use and why do

you use it?

What one piece of software do you depend upon

with this distribution? Why is it so important?

What kind of hardware do you run this setup on?
Will you share a screenshot of your desktop?

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Who Is Interviewed?

5 10 15 20 25

journalist distro developer community manager student Academic sys admin GNOME Developer musician consultant engineer Blogger translator IT Consultant Information Systems Manager Project Manager Teacher non-profit Entrepreneur writer Xfce developer server admin analyst copywriter LibreOffice developer developer artist data analyst politician programmer Python developer software developer

Interview Subject Professions (n=84)

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Who is Interviewed?

male 83% female 17%

Interview Subject Gender

(n=83)

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What Do They Use?

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Interview Subject Distro (n=84)

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What Do They Use?

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GNOME Unity KDE Xfce Multiple LXDE GNOME2 awm Fluxbox Cinnamon Openbox Enlightenment hlwm MATE GNOME fallback Ion

Interview Subject Desktop Environment (n=83)

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What Do They Use?

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Firefox Thunderbird git Audacity Empathy R Eclipse Newsbeuter urxvt Blender Freedroid Konqueror pacman rdiff-backup Tomboy abcde Ardour backuppc Celtx cplay Docky email-reminder FFADO FUSE Spectrum Emulator Getting Things GNOME! GNOME gThumb Hotot JGrasp KomodoEdit Ladish mc mongrel2 MythTV nmap OpenVPN PHP pwdhash rdesktop Scribes slrn SpiderOak terminal textroom UbuntuOne valgrind3.6.1 WeeChat XBMC Zotero

Interview Subject Programs Used

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What Do They Use?

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Lessons Learned

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Desktops are very personal.

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Linux “just works.”

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(The Cloud helped).

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Intuitive = Familiar

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“You may always choose none of the above. Withholding choice is not

death. Quite on the contrary,

it is one of the few things distinguishing life from its digital imitators.”

̶ Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

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Defaults are bad. Defaults are good.

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Successful users understand their options.

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For non-technical users, having to go under the hood is a feature, not a bug.

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Linux doesn’t force you to think about your workflow, but it makes it easy to think about your workflow.

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Change is OK

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Desktop Linux is not for everyone.

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Questions?

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Plugs

Let me interview you!

steven@mylinuxrig.com

My Linux Rig: www.mylinuxrig.com
Twitter: @steven_ovadia
My book: The Librarian's Guide to

Academic Research in the Cloud (Chandos, 2013)

“What Linux Taught Me About

Productivity”: https://medium.com/what-i-learned-

today/b7bc9f3511f2