2021 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners
 

The polls are closed and the results are in. We once again had some extremely close races (and multiple ties) and the large number of new categories this year certainly kept things interesting. Congratulations to each and every nominee. The official results:

If you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve the MCA's next year, do let us know. Visit https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ce-awards-133/ to view the individual polls, which contain the complete results. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2021mca.php for a visual representation of each category on a single page.

--jeremy

"Nothing to see..."

Thanks for doing the charts. Not too many surprises among the votes, but always some application I'd not heard of to check out.

Which one?
 

Server Distribution of the Year - is Debian Stable (as above) or Slackware, as in the full poll results?

Edit:

Ah, my mistake, somehow I ended up in last year's poll! Sorry... :redface:

jeremy and all lq'ers can give themselves a pack on the back for another year of choice for people...if not members

please consider a few minor upgrades to memberschoice2023.01.01
add: members choice link to the menu on the right
official results: sort categories in descending order of total votes cast
link the above results to the individual polls

"Text Editor of the Year - vim" yea!

Like the 3d views. As usual. I am in the minority. Which is fine by me.

Desktop Environment of the Year - Plasma Desktop (KDE)


Well, if the good stuff (for me, I cannot speak for others) of Gnome3 is hiding in the extensions, then i won't be surprised
KDE beats gnome3. Every time I install a new distro, I have to patiently install and customize gnome extensions, which to me as an old user a hassle but
a mountain to overcome for new users. The flexibility of customization of Gnome3 is to me, a shortcoming of Gnome3. Things might have changed since I last checked.
Dash to Dock still have to be installed manually on all systems.
I have to install Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS and patiently do some careful experiements to finally tame the customization of Gnome3. Call me stupid if you want.

Just be careful you're not switching to 2020 results when you do so.

Many of the same winners per category again but at least there's a few new winners - notably Debian Stable as the top server OS.

Ubuntu... Debian... SuperTuxCart.. Ok Did I even vote on the rest of it? I forget. Those are the only three I would have chosen in the lists.

suggestions and

jeremy, could you pin your post of poll results to the top...i get lost in the words and am too lazy to change the order of the thread...and now cannot find that button on this page...[error #1d10t comes to mind]...no not you...the guy sitting in-front of my computer


slightly off thread but on topic of :

Secure Messaging Application of the Year - Signal

does anyone know of an app that can handle 'secret ballots', i will be on a zoom meeting soon and have been advised that there is no provision for ballots...but it seems you can set up anonymous polls[same diff] i will be talking to the meeting host in the meantime. [i know it may be 'secret but not secure' on the zm.app]

i did a quick look on the signal site but could find no answers

click here for 3d and it takes me back an entire year ...it looks cool, but kinda messed up.

Window Manager of the Year - Openbox
This is a suprise. Openbox is no longer maintained!
I still use Openbox, (with lxpanel, and nothing else on the screen).
I love the menu, a new maintainer could bring back Obmenu, and bring Openbox into the 21st century.

It shouldn't bother me, but it does. Ubuntu - Desktop Distribution of the Year.

It just disappoints me that this approach to Linux is held in such esteem. Ubuntu, or Windows for Linux I've dubbed it, disempowers users. In an environment where everything (well more than most people need) is installed, integrated and configured an attitude of "It just works or I won't use it..." grows (as with Windows users).

I'm not suggest everyone use a distro that demands you build everything from source, or use a rolling distro that is always bleeding edge and some things just won't work some of the time. However, it would be refreshing to see Ubuntu become the useful stepping stone distro, out of Windows, that people us to progress to lighter, more individually tailored distros (no, not Mint XD).

Great to see antiX Linux picking up a good slice of the vote.

At heart I tend to agree with you. On the other hand... at least it's not Windows. I've had friends tired of "fixing" their MS systems, suggesting 90% of your computer anymore is - [some brand] web browser. They hardly knew/understood Windows, so they don't need to really understand Linux, more specifically which distribution - as Linux is not an OS.

So some have tried and haven't had bloat problems overtime draining their system. There's also minimum concern about the malware and virus fears.

I more-or-less started with Ubuntu then Mint until the friendliness get in my way. It's not easy to jump straight into clean Debian without some clue.

So I do believe these hand-holding distributions have their place, but I do feel they tend to step near to "proprietary-ize" their systems.

What's so empowering about doing the most boring uncreative manual labor that is configuring linux desktop to not suck? I have better stuff to do, for reals.

Get Windows.

ho
 

everything is work OK thank you

2023 members choice poll
 

Jeremy, can you jump in and let us know what is happening with members choice for 2023?

is the members choice poll kaput?
and if not...where da helk is it?

might i suggest a rolling poll...voting is allowed anytime but at the end of each year the results are tallied, winners posted and votes are reset for the upcoming year...

as some have said it is a fun poll but also useful to see what others find useful
i trust the herd...not the herder...
...so...wuts in yer pooter:confused:

2024 members choice poll?
 

what happened to the members choice polls...2023...2024...

nothing new has happened, its just more of the same. what would be the point?

well enigma9o7...this seems to be a dead thread and i wont poke it for current answers on LQ
if anyone is looking for popular programs check out alternativeto.dot.net
members choice was a good source to see what like-minded people found useful but this thread has gone stagnant and my only choice is to choose to look elsewhere
...lq is still my first choice to pick the brains of the open source community on other topics

The polls were seeing decreased participation and engagement, so we haven't done them for a couple years. If there is renewed interest, we'd certainly consider bringing them back.

gone, got it, good to know, thanks Jeremy

Understandable.

That's fair enough.