Which is your Linux distribution of choice?

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We did this poll over a year ago and felt it was time once again to ask our readers: Which Linux distro do you use? And, once again, we pulled our list of choices from DistroWatch.com's page hit rankings. These are the top 10 Linux distributions over the last month.

The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch.com was accessed each day, nothing more.

A lot of you may use many different versions of Linux on a regular basis. Or, maybe you don't see your choice here. Vote for the one you use the most or the one from this list that is your favorite.

Start a conversation below about your Linux distribution of choice. Tell us what you use it for and why.

 

5654 votes tallied
Mint
0% (0 votes)
Fedora
0% (0 votes)
Debian
0% (0 votes)
Ubuntu
0% (0 votes)
Mageia
0% (0 votes)
openSUSE
0% (0 votes)
PCLinuxOS
0% (0 votes)
SparkyLinux
0% (0 votes)
elementary
0% (0 votes)
Arch
0% (0 votes)
11% (622 votes)
11% (625 votes)
13% (761 votes)
20% (1125 votes)
1% (69 votes)
14% (789 votes)
6% (366 votes)
0% (17 votes)
4% (214 votes)
19% (1066 votes)

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Debian Sid all the way. I've used Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSuse and probably the main reason I like Debian over the others so much is because of the community and its unfailing drive to steer clear of becoming commercialized. Not to mention it being a solid environment. There are inherent configurations that may cause a headache or two at times, but it's a learning experience.

Mine choice is Debian (stable) with KDE (nearly full suit) ;)
- It might have more hassle with setting it up, but when it's done, it runs rock-solid for years, never met something competitive for it.

Before settled with Debian I've been tried out others to:
* Fedora had great level of things working out-of-box and software very up-to-date and really nice web pages, forums, etc (official home) but it wasn't for me, as I found it be to unstable (for me - I like to test and tweak things).
* Same goes for Ubuntu, but as extra negative parts, it had horrible DE GUI (unity - ?tweaked gnome?) and a waterfall of adds everywhere inside OS it self.
Also tried in past thing like centos, dsl, puppylinux and many more. But Debian has remained mine trustworthy and loyal companion.

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Pear OS

Ubuntu for daily use (I like Unity).
I experiment with other linux distros in VBox.
Will install Linux Deepin (Or Linux Mint) for Windows refugees.

I use now , Solydx , a light Debian distro heavily integrated , and very well.
It came with Xfce , but I changed it to Enlightenment ( not a current version).
I find myself in no hurry to change from this

I use now , Solydx , a light Debian distro heavily integrated , and very well.
It came with Xfce , but I changed it to Enlightenment ( not a current version).
I find myself in no hurry to change from this

To pity authors keep only abpreselected list here. Wouldn't it be better having an add your distro if not in list feature, so also the poor unnamed ones can be mentioned, as state of now, I can only advise to not take part, cause that resultbis biased.

The only distribution that works for me for 10 years (since I'm on Linux) is openSUSE. Rock solid, stable, flexible and it just works! And quite a great experience with KDE, which I mostly use, but perfect for the times when I wish to use GNOME, XFCE, Enlightenment, LXDE etc. also!

Is it possible something is wrong with this poll?
I chose OpenSUSE, submitted, and it says I chose Mint (it's in bold and has the pollfield-chosen class applied to it in the HTML...

Gentoo rocks!

LMDE all the things - desktop distro that hasn't had Ubuntu's greasy mitts all over it.

Debian on servers, naturally.

Eu uso pclinuxos br lxde

Open Source or Free Software?

I recommend Free Software and fsf.org
GNU-Linux is FS
No matter the distribution, choose one and you'll be happy for your choice.

A rather biased survey. It leaves off one of the more popular, if not the most popular Linux distro, RHEL, or its free versions CentOS and Scientific Linux. And don't tell me that Fedora is the same as RHEL or CentOS. It is not. I run both CentOS and Fedora and the two are very different.

Pclinuxos BR lxde

Debian derivatives (SolydXK, MiniNo, Xubuntu), and PCLinuxOS.