Desktop Distribution of the Year
 

Which distribution do you think is best suited for a Desktop machine?

--jeremy

Debian of course. Without Debian the Linux ecosystem would be a very boring place indeed.

Fuduntu is the best Desktop distribution of course!

CrunchBang -- Debian under the hood, Openbox on the surface (if you don't want to vote for CrunchBang, then vote Debian). :-)

Manjaro http://blog.manjaro.org Arch-based Arch compatible :D

A different kind of beast!
http://blog.manjaro.org/2012/11/22/m...nd-of-beast-2/

Xubuntu. Ubunto without the bloatware.

I think this is a more accurate representation of reality ;)

You may be right, but my machine runs perceptibly faster in Xubuntu ... or did when I switched, back when Unity first appeared. (No, I don't have the data.)

Fuduntu is my choice! Once I tried it I never looked back!

Fuduntu, of course. :)

It should but my point is Gnome and KDE aren't all the bloat in Ubuntu, if you want XFCE to run fast try Debian and be amazed how much better it is without Canonical's, under the covers, bloatware.

fedora has a redhat backbone but still offering a powerfull desktop. The bleeding age and thinking man's linux. fedora for ever. (:)

crunchbang

An obvious choice - Slackware

Kubuntu, Easy to learn for newbies and powerful enough for fulltime use

Slackware. Is there really any competition? :)

Yes, Slackware64:)

AntixMepis

Debian

Arch .. the original... not a spin off... it is my personal erector set.... Build Anything you want.

I love Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon

But I've been recommending LMDE to folks, mostly n00bs, and they seem to like it much more than ewboontew - not only that, but since it's a rolling distro there's no need for a re-install until you buy another box ;)

Perhaps LMDE deserves to be listed on its own instead of being lumped in with the other Mints?

:hattip:

I voted for Arch, as Ubuntu has started down a dark path to commercialization. Right now, I'm running ArchBang (basically Arch with an OpenBox wrapper) from a roomy 16GB flash drive, and its working great. I'm still not used to systemd though :scratch:

No one giving gentoo any love?

Xubuntu
 

Xubuntu

yeah +1

Or better yet use LFS/BLFS lightning fast and nothing installed that you didn't install yourself!

It's not allowing me to vote :( Says I don't have sufficient permissions.
Donkeyotay

antiX - though once again it is not listed. Great for old and new hardware for those that like it mean and lean.

Is it not considered part of Linux Mint, or should it have it's own separate vote?

Slackware

For me Ubuntu is best because its really simple for noobs but again, I really like Fedora and I don't know about others and Linus Trovalds but I loved Gnome3. So I think I should vote for Fedora.

AntiX.

I like a lot of different distro's right now I am running Debian

You need to have one post before you can vote in the MCA's. You should be able to vote without a problem now.

--jeremy

Tricky question for me. I run worst-case scenario: linux on a fully Windows-optomized Toshiba laptop. PCLinuxOS ran very well for me, and if they ever get a 64-bit version available, it will get my vote. Until then, even though it makes my hair hurt to say it, Mint 14(ONLY) does get my vote. If they ever cut the cord and dump Ubuntu's repositories, they can be great.

Crunchbang

(without a doubt, nor a second's hesitation)

I agree that Crunchbang is great...elegant, fast, and stable; but, I can't make it work with my hardware.

Seconded.

Debian: stable and free.

I would vote Slax... the new Slax 7 is amazing. KDE 4.9 in 214Mb download. Fully Slackware 14 compatible with the new "slax activate <package>" package manager. Can you add Slax in the poll?

I've voted for Fuduntu this year. They seem to have the knack of creating a rolling-release distro that's not unstable, they've got all the configuration tools that make life easy (inherited from Fedora), and they avoid the bugs that make life difficult (which are usually inherited from Ubuntu).

openSUSE (Jeremy, please note the correct spelling.)

Please don't let Ubuntu win this year.

Bodhi Linux is the best- give it a try
 

Bodhi Linux is the Enlightenment desktop on Ubuntu. Final Enlightenment desktop due by end of 2012. Kubuntu is right up there on top too.

Corrected, thanks.

--jeremy

Ubuntu 10.04 seems to work best for me. I'm not too crazy about the newer versions. I tried Puppy and REALLY liked it, but it doesn't seem to work in all environments - sort of hit and miss. I also tried LinuxMint, openSUSE, Fedora, and a few others not listed here. Had various issues with each. Some seemed overly complicated. I have some old versions of PCLinux and Knoppix that were pretty cool. Knoppix was my favorite for a long time, but I couldn't figure out how to get and install new packages.

Debian stable
 

Without Debian my life would have been different. Debian is the place where I live, the home where I keep on coming back again and again even if dare to try another apparently sexier distro in a moment of weakness... Debian is which runs my main machine, that were my important data lives. Debian is that which always works, silently, smoothly, reliably... Debian is all; the present, the past, and the future...

Did I make myself clear? :)

Very pleased with Mint 14 Nadia (Mate). Was happy with v11, upgraded to 13 Maya the latest long term support. All sorts of problems tried both Mate and Cinnamon distros, neither seemed to work. Come v14 and back to the same state of happiness I had with v11. Was dual booting and updated XP to something ending with 8. Now that does get my Christmas turkey award. Removed all dual boot and now simply spiffing! Think Mint 14 should be long term supported version not 13!

Seasons greetings to all.
RichardS

CrunchBang.

Take Debian, add the stuff that a user really wants - i.e. optional inclusion of software like LibreOffice and a LAMP stack via a nifty post-installation script - and strip out all the bloat.

All it asks in return is that you do a tiny bit of extra footwork (still via a GUI).

Dell should have put this on the XPS 13 Developer Edition but I don't blame them. They weren't to know.

Debian in it's purest form :)