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 kept 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 https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ce-awards-126/ to view the individual polls, which contain the complete results. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2017mca.php for a visual representation of each category on a single page.

--jeremy

Yes, Raspberry Pi is there! R pi is cool for awesome projects!

1st comment

Improvement suggestions:
- Reopen the polls when new entries are added.
- Allow multiple choices.
- Add ed(1) to text editors.

Thank you for the yearly polls nevertheless. A few surprises in the results.

I only use Ubuntu because that is the only Linux that work allows. Lots of better options for advanced users

Linux Action Show is no more. Same presenters have other good podcast but have signed off Linux Action Show

Glad to see Thunderbird is on top. Just started using it and still looking at the different plugins

Love to hear what others think if the list



Shon

Found a problem: In the "mail client of the year" graph, Thunderbird is not labeled.
(But it's obvious enough.)

Looks like a bug in the charting API we use. Thanks for the heads up, we'll see if we can get it resolved.

--jeremy

jeremy... interesting! kinda surprised with a few of these. where's java, for example? these machines have gotten so quick that its gotta rule here pretty soon. I run lime mint.. they don't mess with the UI and I don't like a buncha changes in this regard. and thunderbird, and firefox. I have trouble with firefox video snippets. I consider myself an intermediate linux user... always learning and pushing the envelope. these forums invaluable. agree with most of these winners too. haven't booted winblows in years. they're always changing stuff. radical changes too. saving people's stuff from those machines right from my lime mint boot stick! people ask how in the hell can you do that? hey I even installed jdk7 on a RECENT build!

Hi Jeremy! What was the percentage of KDEnlive? It was not shown...

Fellype

I've updated the initial post (it's 30.11%). The full results for all polls are available here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ce-awards-126/

--jeremy

I'm surprised at the high percentage for Firefox. Every time I load it back up and give it another try I regret it. I much prefer Chromium-browser. For me it is faster, easier to use, clean looking and not bloated.

Just MHO.

'nix on everyone!

I use MX-17 that did not make the list. But I have in past tried a bunch.
Its developer tools make it almost 100% NOOB friendly, while still plenty powerful and lightweight.
Its an XFCE based.
Among its cool features, are it saves desktop changes during the install.
Has a Mount Manager for all your local drives, to keep them active during boot, allowing apps to access them allowing to share with other OS.
They also have a bunch of nice tools, such as HP printer support, Wifi suport for most, and Network printer support natively. NVIDIA and AMD automated installer. Grub Customizer, VirtualBox, Chrome, Kodi, Plex Server. Ok nuff said.

I like Firefox, and such, but I need Chrome to support Chomecast. Otherwise no differences.
I do think and hope there will be more Email clients. I aksi would love to see a Power ISO utility. Mainly to make custom ISO.
Everything else seems to be there,

Here is a page with lots of answers about how ranked choice voting works, and why it's better: http://www.rcvmaine.com/faq

Thanks for your survey.

For me the surprise was Skype. After all a Microsoft product... Even my wife uses Facebook Messenger with a similar functionality on her Android tablet. (well, as spying tool similar...)

same here. and i pretty much need chrome at this point :/ for chromecast and stuff...