The polls are closed and the results are in. We once again had some extremely close races and the large number of new categories this year certainly made things interesting. Congratulations to each and every nominee. The official results:

If you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve the MCA's next year, do let us know. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ce-awards-117/ to view the individual polls, which contain the complete results. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2015mca.php for a visual representation of each category on a single page.

--jeremy

Learned something new
I use this list every time to see "what else" is out there
Melissa

I'm mostly surprised about the Mozilla products.

With all the news and weirdness around its company and lack of community support, I expected it to do worse.

Agreed. Really wasn't expecting it to dominate as much as it has in recent years.

I agree with regards to browsers. I would have thought Chromium/Chrome would be riding high amongst this crowd. While FF did win, it didn't win by a landslide; 55% is a healthy following, though.

Now with email clients, I just couldn't picture anything even coming in close to Thunderbird. In my experience, it's the most stable, easily customized, robust email/RSS/USENET client out there; and can do so much more with the right extensions/addons. Here's a look at my Thunderbird...



and my extensions...



To each their own, though. Some folks prefer Lynx and Sendmail. It's all good. Choice is a wonderful thing. I remember a time when my only options were IE and Outlook Express.

I notice from being one of the most widly usde Linux desktops, gnome and its derivitives are slipping further down the rankings, maybe the poll results should be sent to the gnome devs, it might actually make them realize that they are slowly killing it, but I doubt it.
P.S.
I gave up using gnome years ago, when the bloat and feature slash and burn policy started to become clear.

They are not ideal. They are simply the best

Chrome is behaving more like IE & Safari corporately, Mozilla makes sense to place first given their open-source preferences. Mozilla is easier to configure, one thing nice about Firefox is when you open G-mail, the annoying check box is unchecked whereas in Chrome its default is checked - at least in FF it's truly customizable on a wider and more open scale than Chrome, and isn't the resource hog that Chrome is - ever notice how much stuff Chrome runs in the bkgnd even when you "configure" it not to? I still use Chrome more than FF but voted for FF

Me too, very usefull threat.

It is very interesting to check out the full statistical results (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2015mca.php). I am very happy to see Slackware above Ubuntu (even if Linux Mint basically comes from there). But, the remark by Keith Hedger says it all. I too gave up GNOME years ago. Quite interesting to see Xfce rise as GNOME falls back. It clearly shows people are moving towards simplicity in working and moving around, and also the way you can see the system through your desktop manager.

Congrats to the winners.

I'm disappointed that the MATE desktop didn't win because to be honest it's the best current "traditional-style" desktop and offers the most flexibility. KDE, GNOME, and Unity are all very, shall we say, "innovative" in their design.

Glad to see Slackware in the second place in both, desktop and server distribution
I agree with Keith Hedger about GNOME and with aragorn2101 about Xfce. Actually I quit from GNOME years ago and went for Xfce
Thanks vtel57 for sharing your Thunderbird configuration

No Raspberry Pi under 'Open Source Single Board Computer'?

spamassassin works very well with Thunderbird

I missed this Poll. This happy GNOME user would have added one in that column... Same for Rhythmbox and SMPlayer (mplayer). But part of what's great about Linux is that I can easily use what I think are better options.