Ubuntu
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“Software wise, I use Ubuntu Linux 99% of the time.”
Kathy Reid Interview, Linguistic Engineer · via Uses This 
“On the desktop, I've been an exclusive Ubuntu user since about 2005.”
Cory Doctorow Interview, Activist, writer, journalist · via Uses This 
“I also turned an old Lenovo Yoga into an Ubuntu sandbox.”
Emily Gorcenski Interview, Data scientist, engineer · via Uses This 
“As far as operating system is concerned, I'm a big fan of Ubuntu and this machine runs fully on Ubuntu 20.04.”
Dr. Heloise Stevance Interview, Computational astrophysicist · via Uses This 
“I do our Linux builds on a dedicated Dell laptop running Ubuntu 18.”
Chris Randall Interview, Musician, co-founder of Audio Damage · via Uses This 
“I've pretty consistently used Ubuntu since 2005 (after much distro-hopping).”
Katherine Cox-Buday Interview, Writer, computer scientist · via Uses This 
“My main system is running Ubuntu.”
Bram Moolenaar Interview, Developer (Vim) · via Uses This 
“Ubuntu 18.04 for the base OS on my NUCs as well as for most of the VMs that run on it.”
Sophie Haskins Interview, Site reliability engineer (GitHub) · via Uses This 
“A lot of my real work takes place on Linux boxes running Ubuntu.”
Nelson Minar Interview, Software engineer · via Uses This 
“The tides started turning for me a few years back as first I started having more and more problems with a fleet of production Macss that I used for Lensley (we eventually switched almost all of these to tiny PCs running Ubuntu LTS).”
Leonard Lin Interview, Independent technologist · via Uses This 
“In my case the variant is Ubuntu, which is slightly less crunchy-granola than the original.”
Dorian Taylor Interview, Entropy schlepper, maker of toys and diversions · via Uses This 
“I've been running Ubuntu since about 2005 and I haven't really felt the need to switch.”
Fritz van Deventer Interview, Developer, musician (Cheeses of Mexico) · via Uses This 
“I run Ubuntu on both machines, sticking with the LTS versions.”
Roberto Ierusalimschy Interview, Associate professor, lead architect (Lua) · via Uses This 
“I love Debian-flavored Linux, and I've been running either Ubuntu or Debian since 2010.”
Emmett Butler Interview, Software engineer (PyKafka), game developer (Cibele) · via Uses This 
“Computer equipment: A random mix of old PCs scattered around, mostly running Windows to control various CNC machines, a few up-to-date PCs and laptops for CAD design work, and a lightweight laptop running Ubuntu for networking and software development.”
Luka Mustafa Interview, Hardware hacker (KORUZA, GoodEnoughCNC) · via Uses This 
“Once, I had a hacker/conceptual artist boyfriend who set me up on Ubuntu systems, and for a while merrily merged as many systems as possible into the fun activist-acceptable software tools.”
Severine von Tscharner Fleming Interview, Organiser, cultural worker (Greenhorns, Agrarian Trust, Farm Hack) · via Uses This 
“My personal laptop is an Ubuntu box, which I don't like that much, but I spent too much time in my youth figuring out what OS to run and how I wanted to configure it.”
Karl Anderson Interview, Software engineer, phone hardware hacker · via Uses This 
“So I have an Ubuntu Linux command line installed on Chrome OS.”
Darius Kazemi Interview, Internet artist (Tiny Subversions) · via Uses This 
“I run Ubuntu like any good freethinking citizen but then almost exclusively within that nice clean shell use the dirty Google privates.”
Jim Munroe Interview, Writer, founder of No Media Kings · via Uses This 
“The ThinkPad runs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.”
Lincoln Mullen Interview, Historian, teacher · via Uses This 
“Before June 2013, I'd used IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads since 1999, usually with Ubuntu Linux installed.”
Matt Cutts Interview, Head of Google's webspam team · via Uses This 
“I have a beefy (headless) Linux box underneath my desk (running Ubuntu).”
Marius Eriksen Interview, Software developer (Twitter) · via Uses This 
“So I have a tiny little box under my desktop which runs an incredibly minimal headless Ubuntu installation.”
Jeffrey Ely Interview, Professor of economics (Northwestern University) · via Uses This 
“I use an Ubuntu distro for Linux, mostly because it is the most popular option.”
Daniel Lemire Interview, Computer researcher, professor · via Uses This 
“When I travel outside the US to a country where I am concerned about the overall security of my laptop (either theft or snooping), I take along one of several "disposable" ASUS EE PCs running Ubuntu.”
Gene Spafford Interview, Professor (Purdue University), security expert · via Uses This 
“For Arcanebolt, I use a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge running some bygone version of Ubuntu for flashing the Arduino boards.”
Tamas Kemenczy Interview, Game designer (Kentucky Route Zero), web developer (Pitchfork) · via Uses This 
“For research I use a modern PC running Ubuntu.”
Neha Narula Interview, PhD student, data scientist, developer · via Uses This 
