Does anybody here use Puppy Linux as their main OS ?

[taersh]

Yes, I'm using Puppy Linux as my main operating system.
Composing music, creating videos, doing graphics and office etc.
Started using Puppy Linux in 2009, since 2012 full time Puppy Linux user.

[greengeek]

Yes, i use Puppy as my main OS. Have not used Windows for anything since XP.

The only time i use Windows is when I need to access a colour printer that i cannot find a Linux driver for. (In that case i use XP and transfer the document as a pdf file made with Puppy)

[Feek]

yes, I've been using Puppy (and Fatdog) since Windows7 stopped being supported. I left Win7 on my hard drive, but I don't actually use it.
Puppy handles everything I need (boot from usb stick).

[HerrBert]

Yes. I fled from Windows 8 in 2015.

[ally]

yep, all the way back to ~2005

[ozsouth]

Like @ally - since about 2005.

[gychang]

only pups for last 10 years....

[rockedge]

Puppy Linux since 2009....I use Windows once a year to do taxes which resides on a laptop that mainly boots and loves Puppy Linux from Tahr to Bionic but is mostly retired these days.

I do major development with Puppy's. All the conversion work of the murga forum was done on Puppy Linux Tahr 6.0.5 and Bionic64-8.0 and now doing further database work on the original data set in Fossapup64-9.0.5.

I ran (run) a web server on an old DELL desktop that ran UPUP 3.9.9.2 which stayed online and running (fully exposed to Internet) for 531 consecutive days until a hurricane knocked out power at my house. (Started with Apache then went fully over to Hiawatha).

[mikewalsh]

Gave up on Windows when XP went EOL, after nearly 30 years of struggling with Redmond's balky nightmare of an OS. Had a 6-month stint with Ubuntu, then discovered Puppy. Haven't looked back since...!!

My "kennels" of half-a-dozen Pups do absolutely everything I want, OR need to do.....

Mike.

[8Geee]

Since 2015 here...still using Slacko5.7 base. W.P spreadsheet audio/video edits
Still using a vintage 2008 eeePC Atom powered 900a.
Every day.
No Windows since W98-2 (root based)

8Geee

[ravensrest]

Been using linux since Puppy 3.0, but keep a copy of Windows 7 around to run my favorite RC flight simulator and a proprietary hearing aid programmer (not available in for linux). Didn't feel inclined to get these running in Wine.

Played around with a half dozen or more varieties of linux, but love the relative simplicity of Puppy.
BS

[foxpup]

Dragging windows at work.
Always running Puppy at home since Wary and Tahr. Left xp behind.

[Geek3579]

Been running LXDE puppies for 4 or more years for home and other personal business. Currently using Bionicpup64 + ydrv with LXDE on a single board computer. Bionicpup64 was installed frugally, with stickpup providing the initial boot and format of the USB. I also shrank the FAT32 partition on the USB and created an ext4 partition which actually holds the actual working frugal installation.

Puppy loads from a 32GB 3.0 USB (which is also used for temporary storage in addition to the savefolder) and I use part of the existing Windows partition on the SSD as longer term storage, so the "original" Windows installation remains largely in a pristine state.

I find the LXDE with PcmanFM best for shuffling files around, and the Bionicpup has access to a huge variety of software needed to do daily tasks, many being OOTB. I also use portable WIne when odd Windows programs are still required, but there can be issues with running some, I admit.

I have no real reason to use a Windows OS.

[bigpup]

I use Puppy Linux for everything, except playing Windows based games.
But, a lot of them will now run in the latest versions of Wine, added to Puppy.
So, I run Windows very little, now.

I even turned a Chromebook into a Puppy laptop.
Have several different versions of Puppy on it.
Why so many Puppies.
Because you can!

Typing this from a Puppy version running on a Raspberry Pi 400 computer.
Only OS I am using on it.
Much better OS than Raspberry OS.

[ronriel]

I totally left windows in 2018. Puppy is now my main OS on my work laptop (Dpup Buster). I used to be tied to Windows due to work requirements until we migrated to Office 365. Weee! We can now work through a web browser.
For my PC at home, I use MX Linux.

[PipzDex]

Since 2009, taking my first steps with slax, then I migrated to linuxmint8 and there I more or less learned to handle the code very little since there was not much information in my way on the subject of connecting to the Internet apart from my absolute lack of knowledge of Linux theme, until one beautiful day (2013) I found Puppy (precise to be exact), this puppy solved my life and filled that space that to this day I do not change it for any other system .. I remember well that I downloaded puppy and in a cyber I made a USB since I did not have a hard disk and what was my amazement that when starting the system it recognized how much hardware my tower had and connected to the Internet without having to do anything else and all that with just 170 megabytes Puppy has given me the golden opportunity to learn so much about himself that I never imagined that I could reach the degree of personalization
Puppy has given me great satisfaction to stop being a limited user and be the programmer who learns more and more every day with the help of all of us who make up this puppy world

[wanderer]

yes
upupbb32 is my main os (thanks peebee)
no windows

william

[sc0ttman]

I've been using only puppy for years now... probably about 10 but dunno..

Since I switched to Puppy, I had to setup myself up a Windows machine while at Uni for Autodesk and Adobe stuff, but that was it..

Work give us Macbooks, but I've even used Puppy on my old thinkpad for producing stuff for work - writing a JS test suite we use, doing an augmented reality web demos for BBC sport (using Blender + Google Aframe), for example..

My main gripe is that video editing and compositing in Linux generally is crap, compared to Mac and Windows anyway.. But not Puppys fault.

[Jafadmin]

My workstations have usually been Mint, but Mint got assimilated into the systemd borg. My traveling laptops are the MIT Debian hack. My future workstation migrations will be to the MIT Debian hack. (currently Devuan Beowulf (3.1))

Devuan offers 3 init systems: sysvinit, openrc, and runit (default is SysVInit) https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation ... all-devuan

My thumbdrive OS is BionicPup64/32

[Eastler_Dart]

tried puppy 4.12 as the first one.
moved to puppy 4.2 - first steps to change it to my whiches
moved to PuppyPrecise, the first puppy which I use most for doing my things
now on Upup-EF - most I had to do, I do with that.
and.... changed / expand it, it speaks german, it has my mail & Co settings build in in the main sfs
changed menu to my whiches, build in seamonkey 2.49.4 (my lappy is slow, all higher/newer Browsers are to heavy)
build up a Gtk-3-theme, so that browser looks nicely (for my mind)
added scripts, automated things . . .
the main-sfs is now about 293MB - 1GB in Ram when all gets expanded

... try that with the redmond's software, it istn't possible ))

Thanks to Barry K and all Puppy-Enthusiasts, thanks peebee for Upup 32bit

[ndujoe2]

Since Puppylinux 1.08rl 2005

[Adam Li]

Puppy 70% (thanks peebee!), XP (without internet) 30%

Cheers to all
Adam

[snoring_cat]

I have been using Puppy Linux since 2006 and it has been my main OS since 2009. Do I get a prize?

[mikewalsh]

I have been using Puppy Linux since 2006 and it has been my main OS since 2009. Do I get a prize?

Mike.

[ndujoe2]

Puppy Linux has been my main OS since November 2005. I have graduated of course from the 32 bit to the 64 bit version of puppylinux

versions:

1.08rl
2.15CE ( I like the icewm in 2.15 )
3.1
4.2
Lupu 5.25
tahr 6.0
now I am at
bionicpup64 where I have been since its release.

I do have a Windows 10 drive but the for a business specific software that does not have a linux flavor. Rarely access it.

[xenial]

I most certainly do and have done so for approximately 4 years.
Wish i had found puppy sooner and it was just a chance perusal of distrowatch which got me into puppyland.

gave up with windows after version 7 and it was not until i discovered puppy that i realised how simple computing should and can be.

This os will be it until my last days.I get everything i want or need from an os with puppy.

[cobaka]

Puppy Linux has been my only operating system since about 2017/18. That's 4 or 5 years.

I found the forum helpful in learning bash and the C language.
(Learning anything is a long-term journey.)

An important point to consider (when thinking about an OS) goes beyond the OS itself to applications.
In my case the word-processor, browser, text editor ... are important too.

My choice of 'The Puppy' comes because it is a stable OS that is relatively immune to viral attacks.
A second good point is ease of installation. Windows has been designed to run with the lowest common ability in computing.
This is a great advantage in many ways. For example: MY-FILE.doc believes it understand I want MY-FILE.doc when I type my-file.doc.
Windows believes there is only one file called "my-file" and does not care about the case I use when referring to it.

However, simplicity comes at a price. The size of windows source-code is about x6 the source for Linux.
Additional code brings simplicity - but also brings more bugs. There are some bugs with "Puppy" - although I am speaking here about 'apps' not the OS itself.
I don't play games on my laptop - nothing I do places any real demand on the processor.

I use a number of PC/laptops. The oldest are P4s. The more modern desktops are 64 bit machines.
Puppy runs well on both. Try doing that with Windows!! I dare you!!

Hope this gives some insight into my life with "the Puppy".

cobaka

[AntonioPt]

Since i found about puppy i have used busterpup for 32 machines and fossa for 64 bits has main os with win7 just in case im lost or need some that i still cant do it in puppy