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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 |
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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01-18-2013, 05:16 PM
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#136
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Member
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Westminster, Maryland USA
Distribution: openSUSE 12.2 tons more in VirtualBox
Posts: 142
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I predict a Slackware win this year - Ubuntu narrowly lead Slackware last year. Ubuntu deserves loosing this title for 12.10 - the Amazon thing alone would have made me say this.
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01-19-2013, 02:43 PM
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#137
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2009
Posts: 8
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Knoppix
knoppix
knoppix
knoppix
knoppix
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01-19-2013, 03:54 PM
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#138
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Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: infinity; Milwaukee, WI, US, Earth
Distribution: any *nix that work well on my cheapest, mostly KDE or Xfce but open (─‿‿─)
Posts: 82
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Virtualboxing the list lol
Quote:
Originally Posted by jeremy
Which distribution do you think is best suited for a Desktop machine?
--jeremy
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This poll is as valuable as Distrowatch!
Thanks 
Last edited by jamison20000e; 01-23-2013 at 10:13 PM.
Reason: moving pwnpi-3.:) to Open Source Hardware Product of the Year #der
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01-28-2013, 11:59 AM
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#139
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2009
Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA
Distribution: Debian Squeeze- (testing) and Crunchbang
Posts: 18
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!# Crunchbang ... For The Win
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01-28-2013, 02:37 PM
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#140
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Member
Registered: Mar 2012
Distribution: Debian for server, CrunchBang for everything that's not a server
Posts: 143
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vrkalak
!# Crunchbang ... For The Win
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YES! Waldorf on my laptop and Statler on my LAMP server = pure Linux bliss  |
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01-28-2013, 07:14 PM
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#141
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Slackware64 13.37
Posts: 4,089
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Slackware - it takes this poll to remind me there are other distros at all... |
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01-28-2013, 08:26 PM
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#142
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Member
Registered: Oct 2009
Distribution: Hackintosh, SlackWare
Posts: 261
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LinuxMint Nadia. Beatiful, stable, reliable, fast and user friendly.
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01-28-2013, 10:45 PM
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#143
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 7
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Kanotix
Kanotix (debian).. from sid ancient times now is wheeze (DragoinFire) and is my partner wherever I go.
Rock solid, and updated with the best gfx support thanks kano for all your great job.
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01-29-2013, 07:51 AM
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#144
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Member
Registered: Jan 2012
Location: Directly above the center of the earth
Distribution: Slackware. What else is there?
Posts: 137
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Slackware - it just works and works well. Install, setup to your liking, use for eternity or until you want to upgrade to a newer version of it *if* you even need to.
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01-29-2013, 07:56 AM
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#145
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Member
Registered: Jun 2012
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 45
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Slackware. why even there are other options!
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01-29-2013, 07:40 PM
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#146
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Planet Earth
Distribution: Debian.
Posts: 1,091
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This poll always makes me desire Slackware again lol So many Slackers here.
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01-29-2013, 09:20 PM
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#147
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Member
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 207
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Been using Arch most of this past year and liking it. Sure, an incident here and there, but glitches tend to get fixed quickly and I like teh freshness.
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01-29-2013, 09:35 PM
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#148
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Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: infinity; Milwaukee, WI, US, Earth
Distribution: any *nix that work well on my cheapest, mostly KDE or Xfce but open (─‿‿─)
Posts: 82
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Installing for older machines; I use to have ta' find the right distributions, then version number by going through consecutively (until top ones won't work then go back1), now so far its just CrunchBang-latest.
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01-30-2013, 06:38 PM
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#149
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2013
Posts: 1
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Slackware
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01-31-2013, 01:33 AM
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#150
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2013
Location: Washington state
Distribution: Slackware 14.0
Posts: 6
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Slackware the current distro closest to the roots of Linux and the best for stability. For newbies, I would recommend Salix or Slax.
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