sunrat Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Results are up for the 2013 Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards. I always thought I was a bit of a hipster, but now I see I use the most popular things in quite a few categories. Debian, KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, Android and more. I guess I just have good taste. And Product of the Year? Linux Product of the YearThat's it. Maybe we just need to call this "The Issue Where The Raspberry Pi Wins Everything". There was also a few harsh surprises for the "write-in" extra nominations: Best Java JRE - *Popular write-in: "all of them suck".Best Java App Server - *Popular write-ins: "NONE!", "LOL" and "you're kidding, right?" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Wow! FF kicked Chrome's butt. Thunderbird kicks Gmail's butt. LibreOffice has just ran away with the show here, folks! No one's even close. vlc best audio app. Dropbox best cloud storage. The GIMP is... well, nothing more needs to be said. The Gimp RULZ, dude! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 It's funny that I have Ubuntu, Siduction and Linux Mint installed and working on my computer but for the last 6 months or so I have been using Mageia and PCLinuxOS and rarely Manjaro.I should get a better look at Ubuntu (since I have it anyway) just for the fun of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 The results show that Arch Linux is really turning some heads as a viable alternative to the "traditional" desktop system. Seems like a very reputable survey to me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Arch Linux? Never heard of it. Is it like Gentoo? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Arch Linux? Never heard of it. Is it like Gentoo? I know you old folk have a hard time keeping up,bless. GrandPa Times will be running an article on Arch soon. That will bring you up to speed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Oh goody! Now what were we talking about? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 What I'd like to see, along with the voting percentages: The number of votes. Just to keep things in perspective. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 LinuxQuestions.org has a much better users poll each year. I'll try to remember to post about it when it comes around again. It'll be soon... https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5076566#post5076566 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 It is just a popularity contest. There may be less used things of much better quality that can not even get a look in. eg. Beagle Board is possibly better than Raspberry Pi, but has a much smaller user base and way less marketing. Still, some of the ones that I use, particularly Debian, KDE and Amarok, I consider to be the best examples of their categories that I have used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 You're right, just a popularity contest. For example, for best distro, Kubuntu got only 3.8% of the votes, and CrunchBang only 1.1%. Neither of those is one of my main distros, but from what I'm seeing, both are very good -- and much better than these numbers would suggest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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