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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
Ubuntu 191 21.83%
Fedora 62 7.09%
Debian 115 13.14%
Slackware 189 21.60%
openSuse 33 3.77%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 2 0.23%
Linux Mint 100 11.43%
Mandriva 4 0.46%
Gentoo 14 1.60%
MEPIS 5 0.57%
Arch 69 7.89%
PClinuxOS 24 2.74%
VectorLinux 0 0%
Sabayon 0 0%
Puppy 4 0.46%
Salix 13 1.49%
CrunchBang 19 2.17%
Mageia 12 1.37%
Bodhi 19 2.17%
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Old 12-21-2011, 02:59 PM   #1
jeremy
root
 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,110

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Desktop Distribution of the Year

The best Linux distribution for use on a Desktop machine.

--jeremy
 
Old 12-21-2011, 04:21 PM   #2
teckk
Senior Member
 
Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: FreeBSD Arch
Posts: 1,408

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I'm impressed with Arch
 
Old 12-21-2011, 04:23 PM   #3
linus72
Guru
 
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Gordonsville-AKA Mayberry-Virginia
Distribution: PocketWriter/MinimalX
Posts: 5,057

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Slackware of course
 
Old 12-21-2011, 04:33 PM   #4
trillobyte
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Registered: Apr 2007
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 93
Blog Entries: 1

Rep: Reputation: 30
I'm happy with Slackware. It has everything I need to get the job done.
 
Old 12-21-2011, 10:59 PM   #5
wpeckham
Member
 
Registered: Apr 2010
Location: USA
Distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat, DSL, Puppy, CentOS, Knoppix
Posts: 598

Rep: Reputation: 133Reputation: 133
The best distribution for a desktop machine
TinyCore
 
Old 12-22-2011, 05:37 AM   #6
jv2112
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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: New England
Distribution: Arch Linux
Posts: 447

Rep: Reputation: 67
Lightbulb
Arch or Archbang.................. either case Arch.
 
Old 12-28-2011, 03:23 PM   #7
wagscat123
Member
 
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Westminster, Maryland USA
Distribution: openSUSE 12.1 and anything I have in VirtualBox
Posts: 121
Blog Entries: 6

Rep: Reputation: 19
I love SUSE for two reasons:
1. Easy to customize with YaST (biggest reason)
2. Balanced between stability and being up to date

However, I do miss the classic GNOME. If there was a distro with Mint's GNOME and a YaST\Mandriva like Control Center, I'd vote for it.
 
Old 12-28-2011, 03:46 PM   #8
XenaneX
Member
 
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Atlanta, GA
Distribution: PClinuxOS
Posts: 63
Blog Entries: 3

Rep: Reputation: 17
I have tried many of the more popular distros but can't get away from PCLinuxOS. Tex does a great job addressing the issues that crop up. For the longest, I wouldn't upgrade from 2009 but I've found 2011 to be top notch. This is not a plug for the distro, it is just my honest opinion. OTOH, the forums have some catching up to do.
 
Old 12-28-2011, 05:36 PM   #9
JMJ_coder
Member
 
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Ohio
Distribution: ArchLinux, NetBSD
Posts: 476

Rep: Reputation: 30
I used Ubuntu for a while, but after they moved to their new Unity desktop I moved to ArchLinux.
 
Old 12-28-2011, 07:05 PM   #10
Arelatensis
Member
 
Registered: Oct 2010
Location: Russia, Moscow
Distribution: Open Suse, Rus-BSD, Aptosid, Mageia
Posts: 36

Rep: Reputation: 2
Smile
Mageia have only one stable release, but now it is in 10 top major distros on Distro Watch. I replace with it my previous Mandriva installation on desktop
Last edited by Arelatensis; 12-28-2011 at 08:34 PM.
 
Old 12-28-2011, 07:07 PM   #11
chrisretusn
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Philippines
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 252

Rep: Reputation: Disabled
I go with what I use, Slackware
 
Old 12-29-2011, 01:53 AM   #12
cowlitzron
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Feb 2011
Distribution: Slackware through Slackel
Posts: 8

Rep: Reputation: 0
Wink
If, Bodhi were on the ballot I would vote for it. Solid Enlightenment distro which has a fast boot.
 
Old 12-29-2011, 02:41 AM   #13
mesuutt
Member
 
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: İstanbul
Distribution: Slackware,Debian
Posts: 60

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Slackware
 
Old 12-29-2011, 04:46 AM   #14
sycamorex
Senior Member
Contributing Member
 
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 4,396
Blog Entries: 1

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Slackware
 
Old 12-29-2011, 07:24 AM   #15
brianL
LQ 5k Club
 
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Laptop: Slackware 13.37 // Desktop: Slackware64 13.37 // Netbook: Slackware 13.37
Posts: 5,477
Blog Entries: 48

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Will this be the year when Slackware moves up to Number One, from its usual second place spot?
 
  


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