Desktop Distribution of the Year
 

Which distribution do you think is best suited for a Desktop machine?

--jeremy

Thank you, vote cast. :)

Just like a hard core slacker. AntiX.

IMO (but I was too late to suggest it - my fault) this category should be split into 2. Distros that user run on old boxes lets say with 1GB or less or new. Having said that, I use antiX on both.

arch for me.
i'm delighted to see bunsenlabs on the list.
can i vote for both?

Can we add void linux?

Void Linux has been added.

--jeremy

Thanks Jeremy!

Please add Solus.

I am really impressed with OpenSUSE Leap, but Solus needs my vote for this one. An independent distro, new shell for Gnome3, and new package manager. That's hella innovation.

It's probably too late for this year (maybe next year...), but would it be a good idea to break Debian down into oldstable, stable, testing, and unstable?

Solus was removed previously as a result of getting zero votes.

--jeremy

I'm pretty sure that was Solus OS. It was based on Debian, Solus is built from scratch.

After he suddenly bailed on Solus OS, I would shy away from his products...

a good selection of distros here
 

a good selection of distros here, but I cannot vote. Personally I'm using Manjaro, antiX and MX, but probably would vote for MX Linux, because it improved quite a lot with the latest version MX-15, although the previous version was actually groundbreaking.

Mint, but I will try Solus this year. Seems to be very promising.

Thanks to anticapitalista and mepis community antix and MX have became very stable, decent and popular. However, I still haven't seen any distro close to Slackware with respect to simplicity and flexibility. My vote goes for Slackware same as last year.

Solus has been added.

--jeremy

A lot of the OLDER machines that ran Win ME/95/98 only had about 1 GB and need a distro that will work at that point/ My vote goes to AntiX and MX, which will run on those machines. The newer distros forget about them.

Two categories is a good idea.
 

I like Anti's suggestion that there needs to be two categories.

Old boxes with lower resources should be a separate category.

I use Mepis, Debian, AntiX and MX Linux.

I voted for MX Linux because it is the best new distribution of 2015 in my opinion.

MX-15 is just beautiful.

Thanks for the feedback. There are no plans to break the Desktop Distro category into multiple polls based on resource usage.

--jeremy

Just installed Mint on a brand-new Skylake box and it works perfectly!

Lots of good ditros here, I've actually tested or used a number of them if only briefly, but for polish and professionalism, I used openSUSE mainly, then, due to how much simpler and easier it was for adding multimedia and other programs I needed quickly, I put Ubuntu on my main PC now.
openSUSE is still my main 2nd but I came to realize, I always kind of had Ubuntu in the back of my mind for when I just needed something to work, so my vote went to it.
Always look forward to this time of year, Jeremy, thanks for this poll!
Kevin

I use and would vote Siduction

Solus has developed a new nice desktop, let's see where it goes from here! But users at reddit have asked the developer why he has created a new package manager, and he basically answered that it was just for the sake of it, and that the package manager is not his priority at all. It is a very bare-bones package manager with lots of work, but no innovation at all. It is really a deal breaker for me!

Finally... I'm very much happy that I didn't miss it this year. I've been waiting to vote for 3 years. This is my first time to vote.

The list doesn't seem to include Ubuntu derivatives - Kubuntu for example. Are they all included under Ubuntu?
Derivatives of SUSE and Gentoo are included, so why not *buntus?

LInux Lite
 

Please Add "Linux Lite"

Great Distro for Old/New H/W
Great for new/experienced users who want simplicity.

Vote: Linux Lite

Thanks

Why can I not vote..??

Linux Lite has been added.

--jeremy

You need at least 1 post to vote, so if you tried to vote before your post you would not have been able to. You should be able to vote now without issue.

--jeremy

Voted PCLinuxOS as I do a remaster with the Trinity Desktop :D oh and it runs like a cheater with a rocket up it's ass :d

I voted Linux Mint because I have used Linux Mint in the past, but actually I think the best this year is the new Ubuntu MATE distro which is sadly missing from the list. (Voting for Ubuntu would imply the crappy stock version with associated "desktop environment".)

Slack :)

Many Thanks... Yes, I can vote now.

Slackware for life. Once you Slack, you always come back.

I'll take a wild guess and say Slackware wins by a landslide...

My acer 8730Z is 9 years old and runs really, really well and that came with Vista (which didn't survive it's first boot) runs rings around some machines made as recently as 2014 with Win installed, it's just a lot more "snappy". Having an ssd helped though ;) oh yeah that machine runs pclinuxos too :)

Alie

Slackware, even though there hasn't been a new release since November 2013. I like Slackware for it's rock solid stability, and small but important updates, along with it being the oldest surviving distro.

Debian is my personal choice, but support for others often requires different choices based on experience and often the hardware.

I wish we had rank choice voting, where we rank our favorite(s). That way, if no browser gets a majority, we go to the second choices of those who voted for browsers that didn't make the top 5 (random, can select more or less), and keep whittling away till we have a true favorite, as well a true 2nd, 3rd and 4th favorites.

I've the utmost respect for this forum but i have to insist on not mincing words on account of that respect by calling the decision to club all Linux Mints including LMDE together while at the same time splitting hairs for an entirely superficial distinction between Firefox and Iceweasel, positively idiotic!

While I don't think it would be that much of a good idea to split all Mints, because most distributions have different ISOs for each DE, I do agree that Firefox vs Iceweasel and Thunderbird vs Icedove don't make much sense, since they are exactly the same software with different name and icons. There are those who say they may be different, but in reality they are not.

One is based on Ubuntu releases and draws from it's repositories the other on Debian stable, if that is not a major distinction, what is?

Slackware is the one I choose to use, so I'd better vote for it. :)

That's true. LMDE is totally different distro than Mint and personally I think your suggestion has merit.

Linux Mint Debian Edition was never previously suggested. It has been added.

--jeremy

Anything without systemd is fine...

If i was a moderator, i'd have suspended me, what can i say, "i'm so sorry, i was ornery and drunk and lashed out" just doesn't cut it..

Before opening this poll there was a thread to suggest nominees by LQ users. This is not Jeremy's fault if someone didn't bother himself to suggest LMDE.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...es-4175561447/

Can we add Crunchbang plus plus?