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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
Ubuntu
342 30.13%
Fedora
111 9.78%
Debian
101 8.90%
openSuse
67 5.90%
Slackware
190 16.74%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
3 0.26%
Mandriva
46 4.05%
Gentoo
43 3.79%
MEPIS
19 1.67%
Linux Mint
93 8.19%
Arch
59 5.20%
PClinuxOS
28 2.47%
Zenwalk
7 0.62%
VectorLinux
5 0.44%
Freespire
0 0%
gOS
0 0%
Sabayon
6 0.53%
Puppy
15 1.32%
#1
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,109
Desktop Distribution of the Year
The best Linux distribution for use on a Desktop machine.
#2
Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: Asia
Distribution: Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS & TCL
Posts: 61
Rep:
Fedora
#3
Member
Registered: May 2008
Location: Ohio
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 249
Rep:
Slackware
#4
Guru
Registered: May 2009
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Distribution: LMDE Gnome with Awesome WM + Kernel 3.3.0-1 amd64
Posts: 6,518
Since poll is closed (??) I'll post my vote here:
#5
LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Laptop: Slackware 13.37 // Desktop: Slackware64 13.37 // Netbook: Slackware 13.37
Posts: 5,476
Slackware 13.0 (64 & 32 bit versions = 2 votes for Slack.
)
#6
Member
Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Kenya
Distribution: Debian Etch, FreeBSD,FC9
Posts: 285
Rep:
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
#7
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2010
Distribution: Gentoo, Slackware
Posts: 18
Rep:
Gentoo.
#8
Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 11,388
slackware !
#9
Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Fountain Valley, CA / Thailand
Distribution: Slackware64® Current
Posts: 899
Rep:
Slackware64 but I expect the Ubombtu n00bs to flood the poll.
#10
Member
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: wherever I can make a living
Distribution: PC-BSD / FreeBSD / Debian / Ubuntu / Win7 / OpenVMS
Posts: 438
Rep:
Debian Lenny - or FreeBSD 8
#11
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2009
Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA
Distribution: Debian Squeeze- (testing) and Crunchbang
Posts: 14
Rep:
LinuxMint-8 (Xfce). . . ."wins by a nose"
#12
Guru
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Gordonsville-AKA Mayberry-Virginia
Distribution: PocketWriter/MinimalX
Posts: 5,057
I'm going with Debian Squeeze
#13
Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Bristol UK
Distribution: Arch Ubuntu Slackware
Posts: 1,020
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
SqdnGuns
Slackware64 but I expect the Ubombtu n00bs to flood the poll.
Yawn. You ain't much past a n00b yourself SqdnGuns. Imagine if I'd said the same thing about Slackware eg
"Ubuntu but I expect the Slackers are coming."
I hate it when people are belittled because of the distro they use. Ubuntu users aren't necessarily new to Linux.
For the record:
I voted Ubuntu. It really does work (usually
) and that is part of my definition of a "desktop distro."
Also for the record:
I mainly use Squeeze.
#14
LQ 5k Club
Registered: May 2001
Location: Belgium
Distribution: Slackware current
Posts: 8,457
Quote:
Originally Posted by
SqdnGuns
Slackware64 but I expect the Ubombtu n00bs to flood the poll.
I thought linux was about freedom of choice,
Not about being better then the rest, or patronizing people.
#15
LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2009
Location: Missouri
Distribution: Debian Lenny, Android
Posts: 25
Rep:
Having not run every OS above, it seems weird to vote. The question is "what's the best", not "what do you run". Maybe I'm thinking too hard. BTW I run Debian Lenny on everything, except when using a rescue OS. I'm too lazy to try everything :}
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) and that is part of my definition of a "desktop distro."
