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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
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antiX
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5 |
0.76% |
Arch
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48 |
7.33% |
BunsenLabs
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3 |
0.46% |
Chakra
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0 |
0% |
Debian
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84 |
12.82% |
Devuan
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5 |
0.76% |
elementary OS
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1 |
0.15% |
Fedora
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68 |
10.38% |
Gentoo
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8 |
1.22% |
Linux Lite
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1 |
0.15% |
Linux Mint
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118 |
18.02% |
Linux Mint Debian Edition
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2 |
0.31% |
Mageia
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16 |
2.44% |
MX Linux
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7 |
1.07% |
Nanolinux
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2 |
0.31% |
NuTyX
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5 |
0.76% |
openSUSE Leap
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9 |
1.37% |
openSUSE Tumbleweed
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8 |
1.22% |
PClinuxOS
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6 |
0.92% |
Peach OSI
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0 |
0% |
Peppermint
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3 |
0.46% |
Puppy
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1 |
0.15% |
Q4OS
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1 |
0.15% |
Sabayon
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0 |
0% |
Salix
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2 |
0.31% |
Slackware
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110 |
16.79% |
Solus
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5 |
0.76% |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
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2 |
0.31% |
Ubuntu
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119 |
18.17% |
Void Linux
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6 |
0.92% |
Zorin OS
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0 |
0% |
Manjaro
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6 |
0.92% |
Antergos
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3 |
0.46% |
Bedrock Linux
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1 |
0.15% |
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01-03-2018, 11:31 AM
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#1
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,618
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Desktop Distribution of the Year
Which distribution do you think is best suited for a Desktop machine?
--jeremy
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01-03-2018, 04:42 PM
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#2
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Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Ubuntu, Fedora, and look at numerous others
Posts: 43
Rep:
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I had to pick Ubuntu over my oldest favorite, Fedora.
Simply based on how quick and easy I can get Ubuntu set up after a clean install, so easy with
the way they have it set up these days.
Fedora is easier than ever but, still needs some outside help to put the really nice finishing touches on it.
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01-03-2018, 04:51 PM
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#3
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2015
Location: Where ever needed
Distribution: Slackware/Salix while testing others
Posts: 1,718
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Jeremy, perhaps Salix could be listed with Slackware since it is backwards compatible and can act as an extra repo for Slackware. Quite a few of use both as well.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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01-03-2018, 07:20 PM
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#4
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Slackware64 14.0
Posts: 4,141
Rep: 
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Slackware - it behaves the way I expect it to and it just works which is pretty much what everyone will say about their distro I guess
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01-03-2018, 07:25 PM
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#5
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2016
Location: Greece
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 27
Rep:
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As this is my first post in 2018, happy new year everyone! Concerning the poll, simply put, slack is the way for another year 
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01-03-2018, 09:12 PM
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#6
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Member
Registered: Feb 2008
Posts: 637
Rep:
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No CentOS 7? It is quite decent. I voted for Linux Mint since i have used it too.
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01-04-2018, 06:44 AM
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#7
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Member
Registered: Oct 2014
Posts: 951
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Void Linux (as explained behind the link in my signature).
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01-04-2018, 10:50 AM
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#8
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Member
Registered: Feb 2011
Location: Washington state
Distribution: Devuan Daedalus 5.0, C4C Ubuntu 22.04
Posts: 190
Rep:
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Ubuntu, due to its large repository and its PPAs. I use the Lubuntu variant.
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01-04-2018, 11:05 AM
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#9
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Moderator
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Arizona, USA
Distribution: Debian, EndeavourOS, OpenSUSE, KDE Neon
Posts: 4,028
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Voted the same as every year.
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01-04-2018, 12:41 PM
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#10
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2014
Location: Stockholm
Distribution: Linux Mint 18.3
Posts: 6
Rep: 
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I opted for Linux Mint, which does just about everything I ask of it in a reliable and intuitive manner....
Henri
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01-04-2018, 02:46 PM
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#11
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Member
Registered: Apr 2013
Location: S.E. England
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 161
Rep: 
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Still Arch for me.
Running yaourt as a pacman frontend gives me AUR package updates and standard package updates together. Over the past 3 - 4 years I've never had a dependency issue. pacman is sensible enough to deal with dependencies and even to tell me when, after an update, some packages installed as dependencies are no longer required, and I can laugh at all those silly incantations that the ubuntu crowd put up with to add several separate repositories for one or two packages each.
Add to that the fact that the Arch wiki is second to none.
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01-04-2018, 03:48 PM
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#12
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,444
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I've been really impressed with MX Linux this year, as well as Void. Still using Slackware, though. 
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01-04-2018, 03:53 PM
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#13
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Ireland
Distribution: Debian 12 Bookworm
Posts: 5,920
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Easy choice for me: Debian!
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01-04-2018, 03:59 PM
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#14
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23
Posts: 7,287
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AntiX
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01-04-2018, 04:22 PM
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#15
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2012
Location: Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz
Distribution: Puppy, Devuan, Guadalinex, TinyLinux, antiX, Wifiway, Zorin
Posts: 7
Rep: 
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Devuan, great performance
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