I always find myself coming back to Slackware.

Here many people voted for slackware .....

See this post some people rated that -- The worst distro ever goes to --- SLACKWARE --

Arch baby!

I just know you can't compare many distros from experience unless you're a distro hopper.

I'm a linux distro hopper.... Or trying to become a master in linux fu...

My hat goes of to Linux Mint 7 not 8.... Linux Mint 8 has some new stupid ideas added to it...

Since we are talking desktops.... But I would have to say Debian, Slackware, Arch linux are rock solid...

This Desktop category may need to be broken down a bit more in near future..

We may need a Netbook, Laptop and Desktop distro of the year seeing is how affordable these other devices have become compared to a desktop...


Sabayon surprised me with how clean there desktop was and graphics... Down fall it was limited in hardware you could install it on..based on Gentoo was really surprised by its limited usefulness.

Not got around to use Gentoo so I will say nothing bad about it.. from what I hear its rock solid and has the most packages available out of all distro's...

Surprise distro of the year has to go to Arch linux and Moblin for Netbooks....

I like openSUSE beauty ... Such a nice themes .. thanks to the SuSE team.

The more categories you break down awards into, the closer they come to losing meaning. What if the POTUS were to be named President of the Year?

I use about any OS I can get my hands on. MS, Linux, whatever. When it comes to Linux though I have found that everyone that I install linux for loves Mint. Most keep the stock setup right down to the wallpaper. That to me says they are doing something very right. So that is who my vote goes to.

Will people be allowed to vote more than one Distro?

I'd have to say Ubuntu. I haven't tried every distro, only about 5 of them.

I rank my top 3 like this:
1. Ubuntu
2. Debian
3. Fedora

I started out with Mandrake, went to Mandriva when it happened, then a friend "convinced" (read: coerced) me to use Gentoo...I learned a lot, broke a lot, got turned off linux for a while.

I tried ubuntu because I wanted something easy...and it was pretty easy, but I was still unsure. Tried sabayon to get some of the best of both worlds with Gentoo and an easy setup. I've dabbled in PCLinuxOS (because in my mind, it has done for Mandriva what Linux Mint has done for Ubuntu), BUT the one distro that has impressed me above and beyond for the comprehensive experience IS Linux Mint.

And Linux Mint Helena continues the great tradition.

I seem to only like Debian-based distros.

Don't worry - nobody's perfect.

For an old desktop (PIII with up to 512MB RAM) antiX.

For more modern desktops - antiX

Two distros I find myself using is Fedora and Slackware, K.I.S.S. works for Slackware because you have complete control over everything without having to compile the core system. I like Fedora because it is always cutting edge. I've used Ubuntu and find that it is a little more "dumbed" down than I personally like but it does have a place, very easy to use.