I'm ashamed to say, but to be honest, I am kind of a ( ) at Unix. So, for ( )s like me, what distro would you recommend me trying out? I'd prefer it to be steam compatible, so out of these, which would you recommend?

lol stupid word filter. meant to say n-o-o-b-s.

If you want, post your steam name here and me and whoever else may (or may not) add you on Steam. Mine is cg93412.

Personally I use notepad++ for most things, and vim for a linux command-line editor. For the coders out there, what's your preference?

Well, there is no poster above me!

Hey, why not?

This thread will serve as the newly formalized  thread for official Makestation community milestones! 

Note: This thread is often confused with the personal milestone thread. This thread is for community milestones, whereas the personal milestone thread is for personal milestones (e.g. for reaching a postcount, making it on the wall of shame, etc. ) As for celebrating our awesomeness as a community as we reach certain community milestones, this thread is the place! - Edited by Darth-Apple

Post Milestones:
1000th post - by titanicbuff, June 08, 2013, 05:21:47 am UTC

2000th post - by simlink, June 23, 2013, 11:36:31 am UTC

3000th post - by ???, July 23, 2013, 10:30ish pm UTC
Special:
666 Posts - June 05, 2013

1337 Posts - June 10, 2013, at 15:20:15 UTC (1337th Post by t3haco!)


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Vector and bitmap graphics are the primary types of images in computing today. I prefer working with vector graphics, as they can be scaled almost infinitely without any loss of quality, and don't rely on this primitive concept known as 'pixels'. But, I have to use bitmap graphics everyday, since they are the most widely supported. Thoughts?

What programming language do you prefer? I personally use Cplusplus for general programming, and java for the lulz and minecraft modding.

EDIT: To clarify, HTML, css and the likes are NOT programming languages. They are markup languages

I've installed and enabled a shoutbox on bottom of the forum. It does refresh automatically, but to keep server load down it may auto-refresh slowly. If it starts to get a little heavy on the lag, just click the refresh button.

-Darth-Apple

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