It's no surprise to see Ubuntu in the top spot for Desktop Distributions. It took all around favorite distro, and because it excels on the desktop, this makes sense. The results show that Arch Linux is really turning some heads as a viable alternative to the "traditional" desktop system. Linux Mint, designed with the philosophy of making things easy for the end user, logically grabs a huge percentage as well.

• Ubuntu 23.2%

• Linux Mint 16%

• Arch Linux 8.7%

• Fedora 8.6%

• Debian 8.1%

• openSUSE 6.1%

• Kubuntu 5.6%

• SolydK 4.9%

• PCLinuxOS 3.9%

• Other 3.8%*

• Xubuntu 2.9%

• Gentoo 2.4%

• Manjaro 2%

• Slackware 1.7%

• Chakra .8%

• Red Hat .6%

• Lubuntu .4%

• Xfce .3%

• NixOS .1%

*Popular write-ins: elementary OS and CentOS.