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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
Debian has always been the only acceptable distribution.
All others were or are shameless and needless copies, hobby projects, chaotic attempts at commercialisation etc.
The only - and severe - issue now with Debian is they also jumped on the catastrophic systemd bandwagon. Destroyed by a cabal of new and young maintainers who understand little about Debian's culture, unfortunately.
If and as soon as Devuan becomes usable, I'll seriously consider jumping Debian, which I have been using since v0.97 (I think; it was the last a.out version of the distro).
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for me, because it has the biggest support on-line with tutorials and help forums. But with Gnome-classic-shell (it's just a package named "gnome-session-flashback") instead of Unity.
Debian has always been the only acceptable distribution. All others were or are shameless and needless copies, hobby projects, chaotic attempts at commercialisation etc.
I beg to differ. Have to agree with the systemd/Debian part, though. Bad decision.
Fedora is my first love. Used Ubuntu and Suse for a while and ended up returning to Fedora. I wanted to try Debian but for some reason couldn't finish installation, so I had to give up. I think every linux distro is great.
While it has some quirks, Ubuntu Mate is my desktop distro of choice since 2015. I'm currently running 16.04.2, waiting happily for the next LTS release of 18.04.
Mate is what Gnome was before it disappeared. It balances ease of use with great power and capability. It's what I plan to use into the foreseeable future.
After almost five years, Linux Mint still has all the features and capabilities that I need to run Linux. And it keeps getting better with no distracting detours.
I like my Ubuntu Mate 16.04. Been using it for over a year as my workhorse machine that I keep all my personal stuff on, as well as tools. It has never failed me or crashed.
It is easy to install and others I have recommended it to have been happy with it, even noobies!
I voted Ubuntu, but really, the Xubuntu flavor is my favorite. Quite configurable, and I can do most anything I want with it, all while using the 'buntu repositories. Now that Ubuntu itself is being released with Gnome/Wayland, instead of Unity, well, we'll see. Think I'll probably leave it with the XFCE environment, as it's what I'm used to.
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