Survey: Slackware is the best Linux distro

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One of the biggest ongoing challenges for Linux advocates has always been that there is such a paucity of data available to demonstrate the preferences of the people who are actually using the free and open source operating system.

That's especially true on the desktop, where virtually countless different flavors are available as a free download for every taste and purpose, but for which there's really no way to take an accurate count, since typically they don't ever get associated with any sales statistics.

DistroWatch's page-hit rankings are often used as a stand-in for such data in the absence of anything better, but every once in a while someone takes a survey that provides fresh insight.

Case in point? LinuxQuestion.org's annual Members Choice Awards, the results of which were just announced for 2012.

Linux Mint at No. 3

Longtime readers may recall the results of last year's poll, in which Ubuntu took first place on the desktop while Slackware came in a very close second.

This year, Slackware pulled into first place, with 20.59 percent, while Ubuntu dropped to 17.02 percent of the 981 votes that were collected.

Next in line was Linux Mint, with 16.21 percent, followed by Debian, with 12.64 percent.

For the twelfth year in a row, a record number of votes were cast, popular community site LinuxQuestions.org said.

Honors for the Raspberry Pi

As for other notable results? There were plenty.

To wit: KDE won best desktop environment, with 31.31 percent; LibreOffice won as best office suite, with a whopping 85.14 percent; Firefox took top honors for browsers, with 52.76 percent; and GIMP won as top graphics application of the year, with 69.85 percent.

It almost goes without saying that Debian won on servers, with 28.74 percent, and Android won on mobile, with 66.86 percent.

Also not surprising was that the Raspberry Pi claimed new open source hardware product of the year, with 79.29 percent.

Want to see the rest of the results? An overall summary of the winners and a detailed breakdown by category are available on the LinuxQuestions.org site.

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[Shadowx]

Thanks for the news :showoff: :D Slackware is the :king: of all linux

[calguyhunk]

Lot of fans for Slackware, Mint etc. Never used either :P

But love Ubuntu a lot, though I don't care much for it's new interface :angry:

Fedora was a bit uhh ... well, let's just say different. Have always wanted to check out DSL and Puppy, just don't have the time to go through the literature and then spend time on troubleshooting etc. as of right now ;)

[ande]

Spent some time on linuxquestions.org, to me they are Slackware fan community, they choice is obvious,

therefore not relevant at all.

Question such as which Linux distribution is the best is senseless.

Every distribution has it's own pluses and minuses.

Choice has very much to do with one's taste, and taste can not be rated as such.

• Both Gentoo and Arch are far superior in terms of resourcefulness, bleeding edge, more customizable. Although Slackware is praised as guru distribution you will need far more knowledge in establishing and using Gentoo.
• From enterprise perspective RHEL is absolute winner. SLES is also often used especially in Europe.
• From regular folk desktop perspective Fedora, Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions such as Kubuntu, then Mint and OpenSUSE are sufficient. They are easy to install and packed with almost all apps you'll need.
• For Penetration Testing Kali's sufficient.
• And for everything else, just as much as replacement for anything mentioned above, there is Debian with largest community and over 30,000 high quality binary packages.

[Server]

Thanks for the news :showoff: :D Slackware is the :king: of all linux

Maybe so but I like Back Track

[a2ms]

I used to love Fedora.. but lately I don't see much point in using it.

[rach]

never use Slackware anyway, maybe I need to try it later :think:

Ubuntu and LinuxMint easy use so far.