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 
“Our stream servers are all Linux (mostly Ubuntu these days).”
Rusty Hodge Interview, Founder and general manager (SomaFM) · via Uses This 
“Ubuntu, a version of Linux, is used throughout as base operating system.”
Rick Falkvinge Interview, Founder of the Swedish Pirate Party · via Uses This 
“At FriendFeed, I used at custom-built desktop (4GB memory, four cores) running Ubuntu Linux for everything.”
Bret Taylor Interview, CTO (Facebook), co-founder (FriendFeed) · via Uses This 
“My stats-crunching baby at Lookout is an Ubuntu cluster named celery, because celery is crunchy and it crunches data.”
Thomson Nguyen Interview, Data scientist (Lookout Mobile Security) · via Uses This 
“Next to that I have a decrepit Linux box running Ubuntu.”
Adewale Oshineye Interview, Developer advocate (Google+) · via Uses This 
“In the past, I have relied on a trusty Lenovo X series laptop running Ubuntu that I carry with me and then a workstation at home that is some form of MacBook Pro/Mac Mini.”
Harper Reed Interview, Technologist (Threadless, Barack Obama) · via Uses This 
“We installed Ubuntu on it, she used it for a summer, and now it's slated to become the nerve center for the home security and automation system.”
Matt Might Interview, CS Professor (University of Utah) · via Uses This 
“On the XPS M1330 I have a dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux.”
Jordan McRae Interview, Inventor · via Uses This 
“I used Ubuntu for a while, but it felt too hand-holdy, too much stuff pre-installed, like those awful Windows computers where the manufacturer has installed a bunch of crap in advance "for your convenience".”
Derek Sivers Interview, TED speaker, founder of CD Baby · via Uses This 
“It runs Ubuntu, and judging by the depth of my /home/rj/oldhome/rj/oldhome/rj...”
Richard Jones Interview, Developer (Last.fm, IRCCloud) · via Uses This 
“I also have an old (circa 2008) ThinkPad with Ubuntu 11 installed, for when Mac OS is giving me fits with an installation.”
Drew Conway Interview, Researcher (terrorism, maths, stats, machine learning) · via Uses This 
“I keep a spare ThinkPad for when I'm lonely for Windows or want to play with Ubuntu.”
Jessamyn West Interview, Librarian, MetaFilter community manager · via Uses This 
“An Acer netbook running Ubuntu when I want to travel light.”
James Gosling Interview, Software engineer (Java) · via Uses This 
“So, rather than have multi-boot, I just stick with one OS (but occasionally use an Ubuntu live CD when I need to run a Linux-only piece of software).”
Mitch Altman Interview, Inventor · via Uses This 
“I keep one Ubuntu Linux image around, and one secondary Windows XP image around as well.”
Andrew Huang Interview, Hardware misfit · via Uses This 
“On the other partition, I installed Ubuntu 7.04 (aka Feisty Fawn), which is my main development OS, and what I boot into almost every day.”
Jason Rohrer Interview, Game developer (Passage) · via Uses This 
“Latest version of Ubuntu Linux 64-bit.”
Mark Pilgrim Interview, Developer & standards advocate (Google) · via Uses This
