I find I cannot vote on this one. It really does depend entirely upon too many factors (starting with what you want to DO from your desktop). I love Debian stable, but RHEL is killer, Sparky is wonderful, VSIDO is nice, ELEMENTARY and Q4OS get out of the way and I get more done... It is difficult to find any desktop distribution that I really do not think is wonderful in one or another desktop use case.

I'm quite similar to what you say above wpeckham. While there are some distros (like Puppy Linux) I really don't get the point of, and IMHO are a pointless excuse for writing code; generally speaking, it's really about having a system were I can do what I want without anything getting in the way (as you say above). And like yourself, I find there's plenty of distributions that realistically could service my needs as well as any of the other suitable choices. The main reason I chose the distro I'm currently using was for the desktop environment it comes with by default, as I'm not a fan of installing a different DE after the installation of the system itself (particularly when a different DE has been installed by default).

I prefer KDE as far as the DE is concerned, it does the job and gives me the control I want, and it looks nice and has the "bells and whistles" to boot. Plus, I've become comfortable with it over the years, and therefore see no reason to learn a different DE/WM. I have used GNOME before, but there was always problems with it, and it looks like someone done a turd on the screen IMHO. So therefore, unless it's a distro that install's KDE by default, or let's me install it instead of a different DE/WM at installation time, I'm not interested in using it as my "daily driver". So since I was using CentOS before my current distro, I couldn't even vote in this poll before. So this time around I just voted for OpenMandriva, since that's what I'm currently using (and posting from right now).

For me the following is important:

- Stable Rolling Release

- MyLiveCD to create your own fully configured system into a bootable ISO for any notebook and PC.

- I could never remember terms and names well, so command sequences into a terminal are almost impossible for me ( it is very tedious to open the manual over and over again ). PCLinuxOS has the PCC System System Administration Suite, which allows you to set up everything in the system.

- A direct communication with developer and packager.

- To have the possibility to request for new packages to be included in the repos.

- A direct communication for " Broken Package " so that the bug is fixed very quickly.

- The APT system with Synaptic

- A helpful, friendly forum that gives constructive answers and is not referred xx times to anything, or thick textbooks.

- A large hardware support.

- Very easy for non-free driver installing, e.g. for NV only two package and two new kernel package. Kernles don't must updating, but come in the repos as new package listing and not as update list in synaptic.

- Not a systemd it have.

All that have PCLinuxOS

About 12 years ago, when Vista came along, I started to seriously work with Linux and tested countless distros.

I think the same.

https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/inde...c,90479.0.html

and I don't agree with Systemd and that's why I had to delete Debian from all my machines about 3 years ago, because Systemd doesn't work with my older hardware. Before Systemd was introduced in Debian I had PCLinuxOS and Debian installed and everything without problems.

Now I only use PCLnuxOS - Lxqt, incredibly stable and fast even on my traditional HDDs. :thumbsup: :)

Mageia is my choice
 

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Manjaro KDE, the awesome linux distro I ever used.

ToriOS ( http://torios.top/ ) is an interesting lightweight alternatives that wasn't mentioned in the poll this year.

I cannot vote.
The distro I have been happily using for the past 5+ years, I wouldn't want to see it win the poll.
Is that weird?

PCLinuxOS and Slackware :-)
Bye
Francesco bat

PCLinuxOS

PCLinuxOS
The Future is Here!

"When you get serious," Slackware!
:)

Desktop Distribution of the Year
 

PCLinuxOS

Desktop Distribution of the Year
 

I use PCLinuxOS

PCLinuxOS for me

Yes. What could be the motivation for that?