Should Open Source Initiative publish the full results of the election it held in March, including for candidates who were disqualified after voting had ended and were excluded from the count?
- Yes (88%, 23 Votes)
- No (8%, 2 Votes)
- I don't know (4%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 26
Start Date: April 26, 2025 @ 10:33 pm
End Date: May 3, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
Do you prefer distros that are released on a fixed schedule, as a rolling release, as a slowed-down rolling release like Slowroll, or something else?
- Traditional fixed-schedule releases for me. (38%, 33 Votes)
- It depends on whether I'm using it as a server or as a desktop (30%, 26 Votes)
- I like always up-to-date rolling releases. (16%, 14 Votes)
- I like the slower approach to the rolling release, like openSUSE is doing with Slowroll. (14%, 12 Votes)
- It doesn't matter (2%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 88
Start Date: September 30, 2023 @ 1:01 pm
End Date: October 6, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
Has Red Hat changed for the better or for the worse as an open-source company under IBM's ownership?
- Very much for the worse (58%, 11 Votes)
- Slightly for the worse (32%, 6 Votes)
- Neither for the better or worse (11%, 2 Votes)
- Very much for the better (0%, 0 Votes)
- Slightly for the better (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 19
Start Date: September 8, 2023 @ 11:49 am
End Date: September 14, 2023 @ 11:00 pm
Which should be the headline of the week?
- L. Ron Hubbard’s Estate Is Against Right To Repair For Scientology’s E-Meters (67%, 8 Votes)
- antiX 23: Anarchic for Sure, but 'Design by Committee' Isn't Always the Best for Linux (33%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 12
Start Date: September 2, 2023 @ 1:33 pm
End Date: September 7, 2023 @ 11:00 pm
Which of these Linux Desktop Environments and Window Managers would you most prefer to use?
- Xfce (35%, 131 Votes)
- KDE Plasma (27%, 103 Votes)
- Gnome (17%, 64 Votes)
- Cinnamon (11%, 43 Votes)
- i3 (2%, 9 Votes)
- Mate (2%, 8 Votes)
- Cosmic (2%, 7 Votes)
- Pantheon (2%, 6 Votes)
- OpenBox (1%, 3 Votes)
- LXQT (1%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 375
Start Date: February 14, 2023 @ 11:00 pm
End Date: February 21, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
What Linux desktop environment did you use the most in 2022?
- KDE Plasma (35%, 454 Votes)
- Xfce (22%, 285 Votes)
- Gnome (20%, 262 Votes)
- Cinnamon (7%, 91 Votes)
- Other (6%, 75 Votes)
- MATE (4%, 53 Votes)
- Pantheon (3%, 39 Votes)
- COSMIC (1%, 18 Votes)
- LXQT (1%, 11 Votes)
- Budgie (1%, 7 Votes)
- DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) (0%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,299
Start Date: February 8, 2023 @ 12:52 am
End Date: February 14, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
Which of these distros would you choose as the ‘Best Linux Distro’ in 2022?
- Fedora (33%, 1,507 Votes)
- Pop!_OS (19%, 874 Votes)
- MX Linux (11%, 489 Votes)
- elementary OS (9%, 399 Votes)
- Ubuntu (8%, 354 Votes)
- Linux Mint (5%, 237 Votes)
- Debian (4%, 201 Votes)
- EndeavourOS (4%, 190 Votes)
- openSUSE (3%, 154 Votes)
- Manjaro (4%, 140 Votes)
Total Voters: 4,545
Start Date: January 12, 2023 @ 12:24 pm
End Date: January 18, 2023 @ 12:00 pm
Which of the GNU/Linux distros listed below would you choose to win the FOSS Force ‘Best Desktop Distro’ Award for 2022?
- MX Linux (17%, 125 Votes)
- Linux Mint (13%, 96 Votes)
- Fedora (13%, 95 Votes)
- Other (11%, 86 Votes)
- openSUSE (11%, 80 Votes)
- Debian (8%, 61 Votes)
- elementary OS (5%, 38 Votes)
- Ubuntu (5%, 37 Votes)
- Manjaro (4%, 28 Votes)
- Pop!_OS (4%, 27 Votes)
- EndeavourOS (3%, 22 Votes)
- KDE Neon (2%, 14 Votes)
- Garuda (1%, 11 Votes)
- AlmaLinux (1%, 8 Votes)
- Zorin (1%, 7 Votes)
- PCLinuxOS (1%, 4 Votes)
- antiX (0%, 3 Votes)
- Kali (0%, 3 Votes)
- ArcoLinux (0%, 3 Votes)
- Linux Lite (0%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 749
Start Date: January 4, 2023 @ 8:00 am
End Date: January 11, 2023 @ 12:14 pm
What distro are you using to replace CentOS?
- AlmaLinux (52%, 103 Votes)
- Rocky Linux (27%, 53 Votes)
- I don't use CentOS (6%, 12 Votes)
- RHEL (6%, 11 Votes)
- Something else (4%, 7 Votes)
- EuroLinux (2%, 4 Votes)
- Oracle Linux (2%, 4 Votes)
- openSUSE Leap (1%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 197
Start Date: May 9, 2022 @ 4:24 pm
End Date: May 30, 2022 @ 1:05 am
What is your reaction to Elon Musk becoming the sole owner of Twitter?
- I will continue to use Twitter, but I don't like it. (29%, 26 Votes)
- I welcome the change in ownership. (29%, 26 Votes)
- I will quit using Twitter. (18%, 16 Votes)
- I don't use Twitter and I don't care. (16%, 14 Votes)
- I use Twitter and I don't care one way or the other. (8%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 90
Start Date: April 25, 2022 @ 3:37 pm
End Date: May 9, 2022 @ 3:37 pm
What do you think about vendors licensing their software under "fauxpen" proprietary licenses?
- It's fine with me (32%, 14 Votes)
- Depending on the circumstances, it could be okay (32%, 14 Votes)
- Never! Fauxpen licenses are too easily confused with open source (30%, 13 Votes)
- I don't know (6%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 44
Start Date: December 22, 2021 @ 6:08 pm
End Date: January 5, 2022 @ 6:03 pm
GitHub or GitLab?
- GitLab (48%, 15 Votes)
- GitHub (26%, 8 Votes)
- Something else (26%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 31
Start Date: November 17, 2021 @ 4:43 pm
End Date: December 1, 2021 @ 4:52 pm
Would you install Microsoft's Edge browser on Linux?
- No (76%, 42 Votes)
- Yes (18%, 10 Votes)
- I don't know (6%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 55
Start Date: November 12, 2021 @ 5:22 pm
End Date: November 26, 2021 @ 5:22 pm
Should the Linux Foundation be making efforts to advance the cause of desktop Linux?
- Yes (95%, 72 Votes)
- No (5%, 4 Votes)
- I don't know (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 76
Start Date: May 4, 2017 @ 10:18 am
End Date: November 18, 2021 @ 11:30 am
Which of the GNU/Linux distros listed below would you choose to win the FOSS Force ‘Best Desktop Distro’ Award for 2016?
- Arch (20%, 1,621 Votes)
- elementary (15%, 1,251 Votes)
- PCLinuxOS (10%, 857 Votes)
- Slackware (8%, 678 Votes)
- Solus (8%, 616 Votes)
- Linux Mint (7%, 576 Votes)
- Manjaro (5%, 431 Votes)
- Ubuntu (5%, 393 Votes)
- Debian (4%, 327 Votes)
- Fedora (4%, 296 Votes)
- Antergos (3%, 274 Votes)
- openSUSE (3%, 242 Votes)
- Ubuntu MATE (1%, 118 Votes)
- MX Linux (1%, 113 Votes)
- Xubuntu (1%, 99 Votes)
- KDE neon (1%, 98 Votes)
- Gentoo (1%, 92 Votes)
- Devuan (1%, 53 Votes)
- BunsenLabs (0%, 27 Votes)
- OpenMandriva (2%, 14 Votes)
Total Voters: 8,176
Start Date: January 30, 2017 @ 12:00 pm
End Date: February 6, 2017 @ 12:00 pm
What was the best Linux desktop distribution in 2016? (qualifying round)
- Arch (15%, 931 Votes)
- Linux Mint (12%, 765 Votes)
- PCLinuxOS (9%, 577 Votes)
- Ubuntu (8%, 520 Votes)
- Manjaro (8%, 500 Votes)
- elementary (8%, 483 Votes)
- Solus (6%, 397 Votes)
- Debian (6%, 360 Votes)
- Fedora (6%, 353 Votes)
- openSUSE (5%, 329 Votes)
- Ubuntu MATE (5%, 280 Votes)
- None of the Above (4%, 264 Votes)
- Antergos (4%, 258 Votes)
- Linux Lite (1%, 58 Votes)
- Lubuntu (1%, 40 Votes)
- Mageia (0%, 31 Votes)
- Zorin (0%, 30 Votes)
- deepin (0%, 24 Votes)
- LXLE (2%, 14 Votes)
Total Voters: 6,217
Start Date: January 20, 2017 @ 12:55 pm
End Date: January 28, 2017 @ 12:00 pm
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