Did you mean "aren't", or was that a Freudian slip?

(sorry, couldn't resist...apologies if this causes too much drift)

Anyways, I voted Ubuntu (although Mint may not be that far behind) because of its increasing ease-of-use (such as Unity, the Software Center, and Ubiquity [the installer] and the fact that all these apps are there to make Ubuntu the Linux for all ages, from Grandma all the way down to teens and young kids) and its concept of choice whether you want to install potentially patent-encumbered software or not (the checkbox that the installer presents you with).

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Okay, yes that's what I meant. Sorry, I was confused...

arch

Slack

Can I go back and change my vote ? if so I'd like to vote for Snow Leopard

That's a good point!! they have done a lot to put Open source on the map as many people had NOOO idea what the term even meant (including me before I found Ubuntu when it was at 9.4) but now that Chrome and Chrome OS will be dropping H.264 support for HTML5 videos its going to force people (without even noticing they are being forced) to watch more video using H.264 under the extremely closed source Flash. They say its to push WebM as a replacement for both H.264 under HTML5 and Flash as it should able to support all the things Flash does, but that will be YEARS down the road.
and that really gives me a bad feeling from using Chrome and Android cause that is a clear move at supporting their deal they made with Adobe to be start having Flash come standard on ALL their devices. So even though I have one of those proto type Chrome OS laptops they were giving out. I just really hate using it since I heard about dropping that HTML5 video codec.

Sorry for the rant, I get worked up sometimes lol

Check out the little icon on the bottom left hand corner of this post...

That's right It says Slackware. Can you say Slackware? I knew you could

I predict that Slackware will win again by a landslide for the 4th consecutive year in a row.

Now wait a minute... isn't the Slackware forum considered the "official" Slackware forum in a sense? I dare say the deck has been stacked.

Not that I'm complaining... About time Ubuntu didn't win.

Wait a minute... You say "about time Ubuntu didn't win" when you have Debian, the distro Ubuntu is based on?! Ah, the irony.

And why do you have the Windows XPee icon on your post despite the fact that you use Linux?

Where's the irony? Ubuntu didn't invent Debian...

And for the record, I use and like Ubuntu. But it doesn't deserve the #1 spot in every poll, because it isn't the best distribution.

Because my wife's PC has Windows XP on it.

Slackware always came second (behind Ubuntu) in the last 4 years.

I think you're suffering from paralax

What is ubuntu?

Well actually I would vote for LMDE if it were actually on the poll, as in my opinion *it* is the best distro around...

It's a word from some African language or another ... I think it means "I can't configure Slackware; or even Debian."

I know you don't like Ubuntu, but mocking it like that is downright juvenile...

Ubuntu really means "humanity towards others" in various southern African languages and it happens to be the name of a Linux distro geared for more ease of use and ease of migration especially for Windows and Mac OS X users, in case any of you haven't realized that it *is* only so popular that people who don't even know what Linux is still use it... LOL @ you if you *really* don't know.