Desktop Distribution of the Year
 

The best Linux distribution for use on a Desktop machine.

--jeremy

Slackware.
It saves me so much time having it on user's computers.

Slackware ...and not just best for 2010 , but for all time.
It does only and just what I told him to do , nothing more , nothing less ...just what a distribution should do! Obey the root :P

Slackware, I always came back since 1994.

Markus

That's at least 4 votes for Slackware. Good start:)

Slackware... Praise Bob ! that makes 5 votes.

I have to say for the best all around distro I've used for the past couple of years would be Mandriva...alot of stuff works out the box.

Slackware :)

Debian for me. I gave up on Ubuntu when people starting asking me about my new Mac. No kidding.

slackware... I've been using it for 2+ years now.

I voted Arch, but I still predict that Slackware will win by a landslide yet again... :rolleyes:

I use Ubuntu and vote for it.

RHEL3all of the way

+1 Slackware

Isn't it normally Ubuntu that wins this catergory?.

AFAIR, last year it was Ubuntu.

Yeah, Ubuntu first, Slackware second. Unfortunately. Some people have no taste. :)

I don't think it has something to do with taste but with the myth Slackware would be less newbiefriendly than Ubuntu.

Markus

See my icon over there on the left. :)

Without a doubt, LINUX MINT :)

Ubuntu
 

I'm using debian now for more than a decade on my desktop, but I still vote for Ubuntu (though I had 2 kernel updates last year, which made my notebook unbootable).
I have the feeling that debian is falling behind too much in terms of package maintainance. Lots of broken packages which are not looked at and even more old packages.
I have some 50 ubuntu packages installed on my debian(!) system.

Another vote for Mint here. While I used Slackware exclusively for years, I have to say, I have never been as impressed with a distro, heck, ANY operating system, as much as I have been with Linux Mint 10.

Another vote for slackware

Slackware for sure.

Slackware for Desktop Distro ??? ( May be I've gone a retard at the age of 23 ;) )

Mint for me :)

I have just had a period of chopping and changing distros to see if anything works better on the desktop that Debian. Nothing does for me (Slackware came a close second!) So ..... Debian.

What about Salix? The reliability of Slackware with less hassle and a bigger repository.

Salix has been added.

--jeremy

Ubuntu, because it works. :D

ubuntu for me

Hi,

Although I use Ubuntu, RedHat and Debian at work, my all time favorite is still Slackware which I use at home. One more for Slackware.

Kind regards,

Eric

Then you should know by now that mixing Ubuntu packages into Debian is a bad idea.
Don't be surprised when it breaks.

Any examples?,I use Testing/Unstable and can't say I've noticed any broken packages of late.
I'd say Squeeze is fairly stable right now.

Funny as fsck!!.
And you still voted for it?.

Another one for Slackware

Ah. :redface: I guess I should have known better.

Slackware!

ArchLinux!!!!!!

Arch

Invasion of the Evil Slackarches from Outer Space

Gentoo all the way !!!!!!!!;)

Ok how about LMDE !;P yeah I know next year, but in the mean time I'll vote for Mint followed a very distant 2nd place Hackintosh Hahaha!!!!

+1 Slackware
It's just simple :)

break what ? You can just look into the package and if it puts something in the wrong place, don't install it.

Examples for broken packages I remember are musescore and shutter. Wine and compiz are prominent packages, which are jsut too old to be useful. But the list is longer.

I still prefer Debian on my desktop atm because of their rolling updates in testing/sid. But if you don't care about that, ubuntu is probably the better choice.

Salix, because Slackware rules and Salix just improves it further ;)

Fedora got my vote.

@ almatic

Some reading for you:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=51536

And if that doesn't convince you,try reading Mark Shuttleworth's post here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth

Salix
 

Slackware with a human face

Ubuntu for ease of use. I came to it from Xandros after work on the Xandros desktop ceased.

I've voted Salix OS (since I'm using it) and also Zenwalk ;)