Xfce takes home the award for "Favorite Linux Desktop Environment." Coming in second in our poll was KDE Plasma, followed by Gnome and Cinnamon.
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Eliminated in the first round of voting were Deepin Desktop Environment and Budgie, replaced by two popular window managers that received more write-in votes. Voting in the final round has already begun, and will remain open until 6 pm EST on Tuesday, February 21.
Have you voted yet in the first round of our Linux Desktop Poll? The winning Desktop Environment project will receive passes to this year's SCALE, All Things Open, plus t-shirts and hats.
Red Hat's community Fedora distribution handily wins in the reboot of our annual "Best Linux Distro" poll, followed by Pop!_OS and MX Linux. Thanks to generous contributions from All Things Open and SCALE, the winning project gets conference tickets, t-shirts, and hats!
There's more at stake than merely bragging rights. This year's winning Linux distribution will receive passes to All Things Open and SCALE, as well as t-shirts and hats.
The qualifying round of the reboot of our annual Readers’ Choice Best Linux Distro Poll ended today with MX Linux at the top, followed by…
Who's going to get bragging rights this year? The last two times we did this, Arch was the winner -- and the first time we did it, Ubuntu took home the prize. Call out the troops and get bragging rights by making your favorite our "Best Linux Distro."
Reports are that Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter is all but a done deal. How do you feel about this? Take our poll.
For the second year in a row, Arch Linux wins both rounds in our poll to determine the winner of our Readers’ Choice Award for Best Linux Distro.
The FOSS Force Readers’ Choice Awards Poll
The readers of FOSS Force have made their voices heard and for the second year in a row you have chosen Arch Linux to be the recipient of the FOSS Force Readers’ Choice Award for Best Linux Distro. The recipient was determined by the results of a poll that opened on January 30 and closed at noon EST today.
The selection was a two part process that began with a qualifying poll in which readers could suggest distros to be included in the just ended final round of voting. The final round asked the question, “Which of the GNU/Linux distros listed below would you choose to win the FOSS Force ‘Best Desktop Distro’ Award for 2016?”
This year, both rounds of polling set records for our site. As they like to say after political elections, voter turnout was very heavy.
Arch Linux wins the qualifying round for the second year, followed by Linux Mint. In addition, eight distros qualified by write-in votes to be included in our final round. Now it’s time to get out the vote in the all-important final round to determine the Best Linux Distro according to our readers.
The FOSS Force Readers’ Choice Awards Poll
Through our qualifying round of voting, you have decided the final slate of candidates for our annual FOSS Force Readers’ Choice Award for Best Linux Distro. At 11 a.m. EST, final round voting began to determine which desktop Linux distro gets the prize for this year’s award.
Admittedly, there’s not much at stake here; the winning distro receives nothing more than bragging rights and a heartfelt symbolic pat on the back from our readers — which has to count for something.