I love slackware to death.... But I voted for Fedora. I just love Fedora.... Been a red hat/fedora fan boy, ever since the first distro I ever tried was a purchased version of RHEL when I was younger. If I could, I would vote for both.

Edit - I use XFCE on Fedora, and it by far gets the job done.

Thanks for mentioning Bodhi - just spent some time taking it for a test drive yesterday. +5 for being the stablest e17 experience I've ever had - good enough to be actually usable. However, I got to give Bodhi a -4 for being based on the lamest of lame Linux distros. Why didn't they simply use Debian? Then maybe the nvidia drivers for my graphics card would work. And I wouldn't have to worry about other bugs, er.. I mean strange and unexpected features. Still, if nvidia drivers would work I'd probably make the switch. Bodhi plans to become self distro in future though, so I will watch for this day.

Oh yeah, for those doing the math, Bodhi still gets a +1

There's a whole lot of distro's that could be in just for desktop users, placing SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop here along with opensuse it's quite useless.

I let you with a list of all desktops active distro's:

Absolute Linux
AgiliaLinux
Alinex
aLinux
ALT Linux
antiX
aptosid
Arch
ArchBang
AriOS
Ark Linux
ARMA aka Omoikane GNU/Linux
Asturix
Aurora OS
AV Linux
Baltix GNU/Linux
Bardinux
Bayanihan Linux
Big Linux
blackPanther OS
BLAG Linux And GNU
BlankOn
Bodhi Linux
BOSS GNU/Linux
BRLix
Burapha
Calculate
Canaima
CCux
CentOS
Chakra
ClearOS
Comfusion
COmmodore OS Vision
CrunchBang
CRUX
CTKArch
Debian
Dream Studio
Dreamlinux
Ekaaty
elementaryOS
Epidemic GNU/Linux
Estrella Roja
ExTIX
Fedora
Fermi
Foresight
Frugalware
Fuduntu
Funtoo
Fusion
Gentoo
Greenie Linux
Guadalinex
Hacao
Haiku
Imagineos
Insigne
Joli OS
JoLinux
KANOTIX
Kiwi Linux
KNOPPIX
Kongoni
Kororaa
Kubuntu
Kwort
Legacy OS
LinEx
Linpus
Linux Caixa Mágica
Linux Deepin
Linux Mint
LinuxConsole
Linvo
Liquid Lemur
Litrix
Lubuntu
Macpup
Madbox
Mageia
Magic
Mandriva
Max: Madrid Linux
MEPIS
MoLinux
Momonga
Monomaxos
moonOS
Myrinix
Netrunner
Nova
Novell SLE
NuTyx
Ojuba
Open Xange
OpenIndiana
openmamba
openSUSE
Otakux
Parabola
Pardus
PCLinuxOS
Pear OS
Peppermint
Phayoune Secure Linux
Pinguy OS
Plamo
PLD Linux
Plop
Poseidon
pQui Linux
PUIAS
Puppy
Puredyne
PureOS
Qomo
Quirky
Red Flag
Red Hat
Resulinux
RIPLinuX
rPath Linux
Runtu
Sabayon
Sabily
SalineOS
Salix
SAMity
Satux
Scientific
SkoleLinux
Slackware
SliTaz
Sorcerer
Source Mage
Super OS
SuperX
Suriyan
Swift
T2 SDE
Tiny Core
TinyMe
Toorox
Toutou
Trisquel
Tuquito
Turbolinux
UberStudent
Ubuntu
Ubuntu Studio
UHU-Linux
Ulteo
Ultimate
Unity
UTUTO
Vector
VENENUX
Vine
VLOS
wattOS
xPUID
Xubuntu
Yellow Dog
Ylmf OS
Yoper
Zenwalk
ZevenOS
Zorin


At least in all the poll options you could add the option "Other".

Slackware solid user...

Now there's something that would be useless.

I'm sure if someone is using a distro (or anything else) that's not on the polls, it would be added if they mention it.

fedora-15 pissed me off this year by forcing gnome-3 on my tiny nettop. so i had to install project bluebubble over it.

Siduction user here...as it is based on Debian and Aptosid its very rock solid despite being quite new

Yeah, so far liking Siduction quite a bit.

I voted Arch but Debian runs it very close.

Debian user for several years. however, I will vote Ubuntu as a Desktop distro(generalized choice).

I think Ubuntu have made some important and some would say impressive contributions to the community over 2011. I don't use Unity myself, but it does deserve credit.

Please share you list of important contributions. Unity gets too much flack.

Voted Crunchbang. Feb 2011 release was a great success and Dec 2011 version is proving to be even better, a welcome antidote to the year of gnome shell and unity. Being based on debian stable, CB is rock solid, with plenty of backports to keep things interesting.

I dreadfully want to know if Ubuntu or Mint will win this year

Switched from Ubuntu to openSUSE and couldn't be happier.