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2020 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners
The polls are closed and the results are in. We once again had some extremely close races (including our first 3 way tie) and the large number of new categories this year certainly kept things interesting. Congratulations to each and every nominee. The official results:
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Yeah, add a non-Linux category like "UNIX OS of the year".
-macOS -OpenBSD -FreeBSD ... etc ...like I've been suggesting for the last two years now. |
None of the winners had a majority of users supporting its categories. This screams for rank choice voting (RCV). I'm not a programmer, but this seems to be an app that can quickly get us to a majority winner with a series of if fi commands (e.g., if a candidate gets less than 1%, apply those voters' next choice until 1% = zero, if a candidate gets less than 2%, apply those voters' next choice until 2% = zero, etcetera, until a candidate has a majority, with honorable mentions to the runner(s)-up.) Let's do it this way next year. It'll be fun!
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Yeah. Have permanent choices in some categories for veneration. ed(1). If you don't have the standard editor, then... Even if it gets 0, it should be left out of respect.
Or, you could have a "VENERATE" button for it below the poll. Just kidding. As for Rank Choice voting, that is an interesting idea. I would still want to see what percentage of people picked what as their #1. |
It's not a popularity contest, really, it's not what "most" users (other than, say Firefox, Virtualbox or System76, in their categories) but what the admitted fragmented Linux community on this forum particularly picked as number ones. If I recall, the raw data, or something resembling it, is available if you want to manipulate it in your own manner such as rank choice after the fact.
Otherwise, it would remind me of the US presidential voting system (shudder) where the one and two percent candidates don't even show up in most results. |
if Desktop Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu
File Mangager of the Year = Nautilus Quote:
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OTOH... it is after all only some 400 votes, so hardly worth making too big a deal out of the whole thing... I'm interested in graphics editor, IDE, mail and security, so will go look for insparation now. Thanks for the polls, LQ :hattip: Cheers! |
As always, most of my favorites aren’t the majority’s favorites.
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I was shocked to see Konsole take terminal of the year. I was also shocked (in a good way) to see Slackware win as live distro of the year. Finally vi(1) was split four ways (elvis, vi, neovim, vim) and yet vim more than doubled emacs! Oh well, M-x ewww probably doesn't support the polls anymore. I wish ed(1) had made it. |
ed(1) keeps being denied, sadly.
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Had it been in the polls I would have voted for it this year. |
In Ireland, We have a system of Proportional Representation for Elections which seems to be what is being requested. Candidates are voted for, and any candidate who reaches the Quota is deemed elected. The Quota = (Number of Votes divided by number of seats) +1. As 'Best' means there's only one place being awarded, the quota would be (Number of Votes divided by 2)+1.
The counting goes as follows
In most categories, anything voted for becomes a candidate. Candidates can be given as a list, for this reason. There's vi, vim, elvis, nvi, & many others. All were categorized as 'vim' or 'vi type editors.' Otherwise the plethora of vi type editors might allow emacs to win:). Likewise a classification can/should be withdrawn if the same program has won a number of years in a row - VLC for example. I can't remember when that did not win. |
There are tons of ranked choice voting web apps, so it might be fairly simple to use that method next year: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22r...voting+web+app
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LOL
I am not shocked to see the winners, they are (most of the time) not my choices but, that's to be expected in a fragmented environment as this. Living La Vida Linux! |
I suggest adding some additional categories:
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My prompt is roughly `[HH:MM] user@host:NumofJobs$` complete with colors. Someone else may just have `%` as their prompt I second tiling window managers category. Shell of the Year too, though bash would likely win. |
I think what zepherusbane means is "prompt-modifying software", like starship. Yet, there are more than enough of those.
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I use Starship myself, I like that it is cross shell - I can use the same prompt with fish shell on my linux box and with bash shell on my mac using the same configuration. |
"Cross-shell" usually ignores the tcsh (for which starship only recently grew support) and rc-based shells.
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MCA for hardware
I'd like to see an MCA for hardware vendors.
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MCA?
Rating hardware is difficult, and here's why: A server motherboard ≠ a gamer motherboard ≠ a value-for-money motherboard ≠ a laptop motherboard ≠ a netbook motherboard, etc. That's an extreme example, but you see the point. In software, you can try several programs (window managers perhaps) and make your choice. But you cannot intelligently vote on hardware you don't own, unless you're a professional reviewer. So the cheap junk would crowd out the elite equipment. Hardware relies also on it's (software) drivers, firmware and their reputation for a low bug count. With Graphics, you can have OSS or Proprietary drivers with varying performance. Whenever you do the research, the graft and spend you money,immediately you discover something negative about it and curse yourself for being suckered. This causes uncontrollable fluctuations in popularity not dependent often on the hardware. Besides, how would people with 2-20 year old machines vote on the current stuff? |
slow system ..
I wantto know whyI should allow zietqiest to remain on mylinux distrition.. its slows the system so much..
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fudmier...it is a software package that remembers your activities to try and assist in narrowing down what you want to do without having to tell the computer as explicitly.
So, if you don't use it.. sure, remove it. Note that Unity uses it in its dashboard to show you most frequently used app, etc. You might want to switch to xfce (or Gnome, which is the current Ubuntu default desktop.) If you've upgraded from something with Unity, this might explain why it's still there. Very few distros include it now, most do not. It's not needed unless you want to do stuff like... "Where are the notes I took online while at the library Tuesday night?" A question such as this might be best answered by the likes of GNOME Zeitgeist."Jul 06, 2009 Mathias Huber |
Ok, some of these may be stretching it a bit, but how about:
Easiest distribution to configure and maintain. Best commandline audio streaming/recording app. Best mental plasticity game Best password vault Outside the box stuff: Best VPN service Best free streaming site for audio Best free streaming site for movies Best free streaming site for TV shows Financial stuff, for those looking for financial security down the road... (Tip of the hat to PV :-) Computer systems are so closely tied to finance that it seems a natural association. Best blockchain app Best investment brokerage Best investment research and tracking app Best ETF scanner Best value stock scanner Best dividend stock scanner Best growth stock scanner |
That would be very much related to advertising. I would not recommend that.
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It would be cool to see a graph of how things have moved over the years of the polls. Like what was the first most popular Terminal and how it progressed/changed over the years to what is the current most popular one.
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Isn't VSCode closed-source so it's against GNU?
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Similarly, though vim, emacs, notepad++ or notepadqq can do some powerful things, you'd be surprised how simple editors like ed and nano can accomplish a lot - quickly and without a lot of fuss. Use the tool for the job; it's not always what you may think and there are many ways to get the job done; sometimes (often) a small, fast, simple tool does the job best. |
What about ftp utility of the year, or does everyone just use a terminal now. Since all the big browsers are removing support of ftp but there is still occasion to use it for some.
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Good idea.
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Hello
Hi new here
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how about organising a vote on the stuff 'not liked' next year - possibly like this suggestion :-)
eg. category: system boot processes |
This thread is about 2020. I guess you might want to look in the newer area?
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Mm. Slackware.....Firefox.....vim.....VLC.....etc, etc.
(*yawn...*) All incredibly predictable. Sometimes I wonder why we bother, because we know what the results are most likely to be before the poll is even run! -------------------------------- Slackware - This IS the home of Slackware, after all. 'Nuff said, really..! Firefox - Linux users are nothing if not traditionalists, and lovers of open source... vim - Do I need to say anything? VLC - Plays absolutely everything. And started life on this side of the fence... Mike. ;) |
OK, but VLC vs QMPlay2
In recent years, I lean for the other, but unfortunately does not play in slow motion! Chrome, it’s terrible, you can’t even force fonts on pages... Quote:
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