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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
My vote goes to Debian. I love how easy it is to build a custom system with the expert install option and I also enjoy the massive repositories. Oh and did I forget to mention how stable Debian is.
I loved Ubuntu until they decided they had to re-invent all kinds of GUI stuff that worked. Furthermore, Ubuntu doesn't play very nicely with MATE (the Gnome 2 fork), whereas Mint does.
Man, I wish the devs would find something that works and keep improving it, and inoculate themselves from the "reinvent everything" bug. *sigh*
For years I've been dedicated to Ubuntu - till Unity. No text menus? Are those stupid "ribbony" things really supposed to be better?? Can't put things on the desktop? Can't find anything without way too much searching? Now I have to go find and install Synaptic? It may be fine for tablets (etc) but it's just not there for a high end development platform. All I can say is "What in God's name were they thinking?" Have they never heard the old maxim: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"? They seem to have altered this to "If it ain't broke, then break it so we have something to fix - aren't we cool." Well, since there is no loyalty at Canonical towards extant Ubuntu users, then I don't plan on wasting any of my loyalty on them. It's either Linux mint or arch Linux for me now.
Arch Linux hands down for me. Though when it comes to the OS I recommend to anyone looking at making the switch from Windows to Linux, I always go with Mint.
Honorable mention to aptosid from me, as its both the best implementation of KDE4 i've tried, and it works great on my new sandy bridge thinkpad unlike almost all the other distros i tried.
Ultimately voted for Debian though - it's the whole Linux universe in a single distro. Best package management; best installer; total customization is possible without straying from the official repos. Near perfect.
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I used to like Ubuntu.
