Desktop Distribution of the Year

Voted slack because its what I do, and always will, use, but Arch certainly gained a lot of followers this year.

Been using Debian for a couple years now and I'm very happy with it. Ubuntu ran me off with their whole "Unity" movement. Ubuntu got insanely slow and unresponsive with the release of 11.04 and the introduction of Unity. Even "Gnome Classic" felt sluggish.

Since moving to Debian I've migrated all my personal machines, including my server, to Debian, and it has been rock solid for me.

CrunchBang!!!

Slackware

Sugar. Always the second position. 2 more votes and Slack would come first!!! Nevermind.

I'm shocked Ubuntu came in first considering the turd it is. I suppose if you group in Kubuntu and Xubuntu in there, that must have kept it up there.

Yeah i know, i honestly didn't think it would come first after Unity. I believe Mint, Debian and Arch obtained a good share of original Ubuntu users this year. I gave Kubuntu another go this year but was disappointed to find that the quality of Ubuntu is still the sad disappointment i had when i first began Gnu/Linux last year. On a fresh install, using synaptic to upgrade everything, it broke and was unrepairable; i had to reinstall and once again it broke trying to update; third time round i used apt-get to do the bloody update, and it worked, but by this time i'd had enough of the stupid thing and didn't think it was worth it. i want my os to work, and i'd expect other people to wish much the same which is why i'm baffled to see these results. I don't care if my distribution is popular or not, but i hope that the people who are voting aren't people whom have only tried one distro, and that's it.

Deja Vu. How many years is it now that Slack has been coming second to Ubuntu? Surprised that Mint hasn't toppled Ubuntu from its top spot. Maybe next year: Slackware number 1, Mint number 2?

/IMHO

Slackware is not at number 2 actually. It's at place 1 since years.

My guess is that for *ubuntu's as a desktop OS those people too must have voted who had a short stint with it and moved back to other OS's. Not very hard to guess that Ubuntu is what the general mass listen as a desktop OS everywhere.

For Slackware as a *desktop OS, only those people will and must have voted who actually *used* it as a desktop OS forever.

Big difference, hail Slackware.

*IMHO/
Regards.

Well with only 875 votes it's hard to take it seriously. Certainly not worth over analyzing.

Its good to see Slackware's response. Even though I use Ubuntu mostly. I come to Linux?'s to get a more balance view. Distrwatch is all about Mint is better than Ubuntu or vice versa.

I have only used PClinuxOS, did try out Mint for a while but as soon as I tried PClinuxOS have never felt the need to use anything else.
Has worked straight out of the box and everything is kept up to date by Tex and his team. Very happy with this distrib..
Cheers