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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
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Arch
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64 |
6.52% |
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Bodhi
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12 |
1.22% |
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CrunchBang
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46 |
4.69% |
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Debian
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124 |
12.64% |
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Fedora
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85 |
8.66% |
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Fuduntu
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13 |
1.33% |
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Gentoo
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15 |
1.53% |
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Linux Mint
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159 |
16.21% |
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Mageia
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16 |
1.63% |
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Mandriva
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2 |
0.20% |
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MEPIS
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6 |
0.61% |
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openSUSE
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38 |
3.87% |
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PClinuxOS
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6 |
0.61% |
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Puppy
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8 |
0.82% |
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Sabayon
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2 |
0.20% |
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Salix
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9 |
0.92% |
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Slackware
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202 |
20.59% |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
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3 |
0.31% |
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Ubuntu
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167 |
17.02% |
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VectorLinux
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0% |
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Chakra
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2 |
0.20% |
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SolusOS
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2 |
0.20% |
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12-17-2012, 06:25 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,514
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Desktop Distribution of the Year
Which distribution do you think is best suited for a Desktop machine?
--jeremy
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12-17-2012, 07:18 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2011
Location: Australia
Distribution: Debian Sid/Experimental
Posts: 1,816
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Debian of course. Without Debian the Linux ecosystem would be a very boring place indeed.
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12-17-2012, 09:43 PM
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Fuduntu Team
Registered: Dec 2011
Location: Nashville, TN
Distribution: Fuduntu
Posts: 73
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Fuduntu is the best Desktop distribution of course!
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12-17-2012, 09:48 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2007
Location: Felton, California, USA
Distribution: CrunchBang
Posts: 6
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CrunchBang -- Debian under the hood, Openbox on the surface (if you don't want to vote for CrunchBang, then vote Debian). :-)
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12-17-2012, 09:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2012
Posts: 2
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12-17-2012, 10:16 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Toronto, ON
Distribution: Xubuntu 12.10 on the desktop, Android 4.2.1 on the tablet
Posts: 52
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Xubuntu. Ubunto without the bloatware.
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12-17-2012, 10:20 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2011
Location: Australia
Distribution: Debian Sid/Experimental
Posts: 1,816
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Quote:
Originally Posted by brashley46
Xubuntu. Ubunto without the visible bloatware.
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I think this is a more accurate representation of reality  |
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12-17-2012, 10:28 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Toronto, ON
Distribution: Xubuntu 12.10 on the desktop, Android 4.2.1 on the tablet
Posts: 52
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Quote:
Originally Posted by k3lt01
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.) |
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12-17-2012, 10:46 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2012
Posts: 1
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jeremy
Which distribution do you think is best suited for a Desktop machine?
--jeremy
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Fuduntu is my choice! Once I tried it I never looked back! |
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12-17-2012, 10:57 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2012
Posts: 1
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Fuduntu, of course.  |
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12-17-2012, 11:05 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2011
Location: Australia
Distribution: Debian Sid/Experimental
Posts: 1,816
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Quote:
Originally Posted by brashley46
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.)
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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. |
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12-18-2012, 01:30 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2011
Distribution: fedora, redhat, mint
Posts: 86
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fedora has a redhat backbone but still offering a powerfull desktop. The bleeding age and thinking man's linux. fedora for ever. ( |
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12-18-2012, 01:45 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2012
Posts: 4
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crunchbang
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12-18-2012, 02:03 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,087
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An obvious choice - Slackware
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12-18-2012, 02:19 AM
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#15
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 4
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Kubuntu, Easy to learn for newbies and powerful enough for fulltime use
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